SunMink

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Link roundup from the weekend 14-15 February

• What a CEO SHOULD Be
  Fascinating insight into JAL's CEO reveals an attitude all too lacking in western leadership - what in wartime is called "leading from the front" (and not just appearing at the front while making out like a bandit at the back).
• 10 Ways Microsoft's Retail Stores Will Differ From Apple Stores
  Perfect.
• Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline pledges cheap medicine for world's poor
  Wow. At face value this is a huge, positive step as well as a radical change of direction. All the pharma companies face a challenge to their business practices; Glaxo appears to have decided to sieze the challenge as an opportunity. This is just the sort of response to disruption that's needed now we're in the meshed society, I hope other industries are taking note (looking at you, software and media industries).
• Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending
  Fantastic grass-roots effort doing something good with all the data coming out of the US Congress on the stimulus bill. Transparency-with-privacy is the key to progress in the meshed society. The only problem is that it will lead to plenty of dings against Obama as well as plenty of plaudits - there's always bad stuff in any mix (check out the doorbells...)
• blog(FOSDEM, 2009);
  Comprehensive description of the Free Java devroom at FOSDEM from Dalibor.
• Obama's BlackBerry brings personal safety risks
  Fascinating article documents the way your cellphone can put you at risk. Article doesn't mention the problem of archiving all the messages Obama writes and how non-PC they might be, of course.
• Ray Lamontagne - BBC4 Sessions
  Totally wonderful music, can't stop listening. Pity the BBC doesn't host these itself.

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