by Whitney | Sep 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
I woke up this morning to see that Washington Mutual, aka WaMu took a dive and entered into receivership. While this was foreseen as a real possibility for quite some time, one thought occurred to me- with all of the different banks being merged and acquired by the...
by Whitney | Sep 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
Corvida from SheGeeks did a guest post over at Chris Brogan’s blog about how as the size of her social network has expanded on twitter, she felt the quality of the conversations she was having deteriorated. I think this is something many people have experienced,...
by Whitney | Sep 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
There’s an interesting article over at Time magazine about Barak Obama’s 50 state strategy to win the election. In a nutshell, it says that by campaigning in all 50 states Obama has made the case that everyone and every vote counts. But as the election...
by Whitney | Sep 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Over the weekend, I heard two politicians make comments that stuck with me. Mike Castle, congressman from Delaware, reported that in recent talks with ING Bank, they are doing very well. The mortgages that they have financed are doing fine, and there’s no...
by Whitney | Sep 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
I just saw Michael Bloomberg give an impressive interview on Meet The Press. I think he is well informed, and also realistic in what we need to do, including improving the education system we have here in the US. He spoke of the auto industry having reduced...
by Whitney | Sep 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
Philadelphia has started a program of civic dialog called the Great Expectations project. Community meetings have been held all over the region, to pinpoint what the citizens think are the major issues facing our City and region, and what should be the governmental...
