by Minter Dial | Mar 7, 2010 | Politics
WikiLeaks is one of the most riveting initiatives (read: ongoing battles) on the Internet and is putting a new spin on the transparency-anonymity debate. The Sunshine Press, which runs WikiLeaks, is an non-profit organization funded by human rights...
by Minter Dial | Mar 7, 2010 | Politics
This is the second of four posts on the topic of Transparency. The first post (link here) in this series dealt with transparency on a societal and individual level. This second post deals with the role of the Internet in the evolving importance of transparency. Any...
by Minter Dial | Mar 1, 2010 | Politics, Responsibility
Transparency is one of the important buzzwords that has surged into new management and leadership vocabulary and, surely, rightly so. It has, in fact, become such a buzzword that the University of Michigan has put it tops of its 2010 list of 15 words that should be...
by Minter Dial | Feb 6, 2010 | Politics, Sports
Cricket Team USA on front of WCQ Brochure “Cricket: Afghanistan versus United States in 2010” Who would have ever thought that these words could be strung together? I was alerted to this potentially potent sporting event coming up next week via an article...
by Minter Dial | Dec 6, 2009 | Politics
“If I were a rich man? Tweedle idle dyddle doo…” is a wonderful song and could probably be singled out as the common person’s most regular dream. But, little does one truly wonder about the plight of the rich. To begin with, there is the difficulty of sorting out the...
by Minter Dial | Sep 21, 2009 | Politics, Sports
This photograph from the UK’s Guardian newspaper (17 Sept 2009) caught my attention initially for the curious position, in the foreground, of the unfortunate person on the receiving end of a flip in a judo exhibition. Then I zeroed in on President Obama and...