Current Affairs: March 2006 Archives
I was in Washington DC today, standing in front of the White House taking pictures with my cellphone camera. The President Bush arrived by helicopter amidst lots of drama and media attention. What a scene!
For a quick overview of a public company, Google's service, Google Finance provides an excellent performance summary of a company, its stock market performance and key financial ratios. The site is loaded with links to other sources of information on the company and it provides historical financial statements from Reuters. This is not an in depth profile, but, like Valueline or Standard and Poor's tear sheets, Google's new service provides the most important facts about a company.
Lunch over IP recommends Comment is free, new blog started by the Guardian:
"The British newspaper The Guardian one week ago started a new collective blog, called Comment is free.
For it they recruited more than 100 smart people across the political spectrum, who post when they want about the subjects of their choice writing as many words as they like. There is an editor in charge, to get some coordination and some "hierarchy" - and help out those of the 100 that didn't have previous blogging experience - but copyediting is limited to checking for libel. Comments by regular columnists from the Guardian and its Sunday sibling Observer are also posted on this "open-ended space for debate, dispute, argument and agreement", as the "about" page puts it. The quality of the contributions is impressive.
Georgina Henry is the editor, who made the switch to blogging after 16 years spent on the print side, and she posted today her lessons-learned-in-the-first-week dispatch".
