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What if your business card literally turned into a flower when planted. I bet people would talk about it. 

It appears that China is gaining a fairly large foothold in the future production of Iraqi Oil. Sort of waters down the “all for oil” talk about the Iraq war. The positive here would certainly be that China will now have a set interest in that country. This should shift their future involvement in the growth, and security of Iraq’s future. 

Google certainly is on top of the industry, planning to release their own web browser only a week after Microsoft launced IE8.

It has always been interesting that while Mozilla’s Firefox browser commands only 19% market share compared to Microsoft’s 70%, there is no doubt that Firefox has been adopted by a particular subset of web-surfers. A uniquely current site like BoingBoing or Gizmodo for instance, may see up to half of its traffic originating from Firefox browsers. This speaks not only to early adopters, but also the uniquely web-savvy.

No doubt, Google’s Chrome browser may replace both at astonishing speeds.

Several years ago it became an interesting fad to see what other people had on their Ipods. Perhaps in a few years it will become mainstream to analyze RSS feeds. It’s already common in the blogosphere, but imagine it hitting USA Today (8th grade reading level).

Well I am cleaning mine up, I am sick of the crap. Some will get cut for good reasons, and some for petty shortcomings.

TO BE CUT:

• Net Business Blog: This used to be good, now I think the Brit just tries to scrap up a few crappy things any idiot should know. And he never spell checks.
• Mavericks at Work: Good Blog, interesting topics… I am just so sick of hearing about Zappos shoe store that I am willing to take drastic measures. And the posts are to long; I have hectic days.

STAYING:

• Seth: I would be happy with just this one.
• Foreign Policy: There is something to be said for insightful and intelligent.
• Nimble Theory: Props for the Sendside invite, now I just have to take you up on it.

As oil prices continue to reach new highs politicians are feeling a strain not only on the economy, but also from their constituency. Surely the monetary adjustments being made by the citizens will fuel reactions in Congress and else. With experience from the oil embargo, the options for containing prices and fears at a governmental level are still limited. Candidates have highlighted several options from windfall taxes to repealing federal taxes on gasoline.

These solutions lack any real substance for impact, and certainly do not address the problem. Perhaps a more realistic concept would be to promote telecommuting. Working from home could certainly help in a variety of ways.

• Consumers could save on their gasoline budgets.
• A growing commuter culture is stressing gasoline demands
• Corporate Tax incentives would be attractive to industries able to support telecommuting.
• It certainly is a green step.

We certainly have the infrastructure and technology to support this. Companies would save in a variety of ways by cutting down on space requirements. It is time to rework corporate culture to compensate according to productivity.