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paulwilkinson.com : Google, SAP, and Salesforce.com Could Save Credit Markets and Journalism

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:48:09 +0000

Great idea! You got the first step of entrepreneurship down... weaving together new ideas and possibilities... Go ahead take the second step... the markets need it... they definitely need it...

paulwilkinson.com : XBRL Summit Day 3 – Eternal Business Questions Even XBRL Can’t Answer

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:09:28 +0000

Thanks for reporting on the conference. Sounds very good.

paulwilkinson.com : The Search for Killer Apps in the Knowledge Capital Economy and XBRL World

Thu, 28 May 2009 16:20:55 +0000

Hi Paul... I wanted to tell you and your readers about a new open source community that I have joined... http://freerisk.org/ I specifally wanted to invite to to become a contributor on our new financial markets regulation wiki... http://freerisk.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Your knowledge and experience could be very useful for the project. We are building it as a resource for market participants, financial technology experts, regulators, legislators, academics and the media. I visited with a number of Congressional staff people last week and there is a tremendous appetite for this kind of neutral information resource. We look forward to your contributions.

paulwilkinson.com : Reconciling Shirky, Noonan, Glassman, a Marine, and two Op-Eds

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:37:53 +0000

Good job Paul... the nation is the sum of the people's efforts... this is a beautiful essay on raising that up... thanks!

paulwilkinson.com : Why Not a Great Recovery?

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 00:00:34 +0000

Nice post Paul... here is an example of what you are suggesting... from Bloomberg,,, Harvard Scientists’ Discovery Opens Door to Synthetic Life Email | Print | A A A By John Lauerman March 7 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard University scientists are a step closer to creating synthetic forms of life, part of a drive to design man-made organisms that may one day be used to help produce new fuels and create biotechnology drugs. Researchers led by George Church, whose findings helped spur the U.S. human genome project in the 1980s, have copied the part of a living cell that makes proteins, the building blocks of life. The finding overcomes a major roadblock in making synthetic self-replicating organisms, Church said today in a lecture at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The technology can be used to program cells to make virtually any protein, even some that don’t exist in nature, the scientists said. That may allow production of helpful new drugs, chemicals and organisms, including living bacteria. It also opens the door to ethical concerns about creation of processes that may be uncontrollable by life’s natural defenses. “It’s the key component to making synthetic life,” Church said yesterday in a telephone call with reporters. “We haven’t made synthetic life and it’s not our primary goal, but this is a huge milestone in that direction.” The work may be immediately helpful to companies such as Synthetic Genomics Inc., headed by J. Craig Venter, trying to make new organisms that perform specific tasks, such as converting buried coal into methane gas that’s easier to extract from the ground.