Google Suit

As we have been talking about Google and Youtube in class I thought I'd comment on the suit filed recently against the web video giants by Viacom for $1 B.

Viacom contends that the ability to upload video's onto Google and Youtube is infringing on copyright laws.

Google says it will agressively fight the lawsuit, and also says it is protected by other copyright laws.

As we have looked at these two sites in class, I thought it was interesting that they may be recieving a huge blow to their ability to attract traffic and attention to their websites that can be transformed into marketing revenue.

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?Feed=OBR&Date=20070313&ID=6604653

The End of Poverty

Jeffery Sachs' work "The End of Poverty" lays out an economic blueprint for lessening and eventually eliminating extreme poverty (poeple living on less than $1 per day).

The article in Wikipedia speaks briefly about the book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_end_of_poverty

The book sells the points about making poverty history well and why its possible, but what it doesn't completely convince is to the best way to do it.
Sachs' suggestion is a top down method driven by foreign aid funneled through the governments of the poor countries.
The one obstacle here is corruption, and he does not do a good enough job selling the ways to get around corruption.

Great book though. Eye opening.

Kerri Angel

Kerri Angell is a girl I sit next to.
She's very nice.
She likes music, theatre and riding horses.


Matt Kates

Kevin Durant

The celtics better get Kevin Durant.
Roger Carmen said "I'd have his...autograph"

http://www.nba.com

http://www.nba.com/celtics/

New Blog

Hello.
I had to redo my blog cause my old information got lost.
Nice.

Matt Kates