Flatlined: Illinois Education

Illinois is particularly dependent upon property taxes for public education.

Flatlined: How Illinois Shortchanges Rural Students streaming audio (~30 Minutes) on the effects of Illinois property tax policy and public education atChicago Public Radio.

Early Stage Venture Capital

More observations on the startup and vc ecosystem by Matt Richtel (NY Times). Interesting comparisons of industries by region. Good follow on to Paul Graham's piece on "How to be Silicon Valley".

Good, Tight Article On Network Neutrality

Excellent short form summary from Nate Anderson(arstechnica).

Paul Graham on How To Be Silicon Valley

Credible insights from Paul Graham on the terroir for re-creating the successes of Silicon Valley.

This sounds hard. Actually it might be easy. My professor friends, when they're deciding where they'd like to work, consider one thing above all: the quality of the other faculty. What attracts professors is good colleagues...

Paul Graham

More of Mr.Graham's thoughts on "Why Startups Condense In America".

NPR Science Friday On Future Of The Internet

The May 26, 2006 Science Friday discussion on the future of the internet provided a decent overview of design and development issues; particularly good introduction of the concept of the capacity and capability of the internals of the net, versus edge access capabilities (e.g., local loop) and services. Not "deep" but lots of good thoughts and links to resources.