http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Christopher+Burns Society Christopher Burns Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=336498&ca=Society In a recent speech to magazine executives, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, called the internet a “cesspool” of false knowledge. His point was that editorial brands are the critical value component in an age when the world is flooded with information that may or may not be true. It is the authority of t... Politics Christopher Burns Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=334181&ca=Politics Considering 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian crisis, we have to conclude that the next war we fight will be less about acquiring land, natural resources, capital or slaves and more about changing concepts, values and economics. Terrorists say they are fighting to throw of... Finances Christopher Burns Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=331395&ca=Finances A study of thirty years of information disasters, from Three Mile Island to the Invasion of Iraq shows a common characteristic: alarms were silenced in all cases. And it happened again on Wall Street as the value of risky investments began to collapse. Scott Hansel, who has covered Wall Street for 1... Society Christopher Burns Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=329751&ca=Society A study in 2000 showed that there were about 109,000 deaths per year as a result of unnecessary surgery, wrong medication, and preventable infection, making medical error the third leading cause of death in the United States. But that doesn’t count deaths that result from “disruptive behavior” betwe... Society Christopher Burns Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=329752&ca=Society All new presidential appointees and senior department executives, like new executives everywhere, spend their early days getting briefings from the staff, and much will be said about information management as a technology challenge. Little or nothing will be said, though, about making decisions in a...