Although it was easier to write than last week’s (which was written entirely on my iPhone), this week’s Aggregate consists of articles which I caught up on while flying back from Boston to California. A few of this week’s articles address topics covered before, but in a bit of a different light, so take a look and as always, let me know in the comments what you think about all of them!
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As I traveled around New England last week, and had the opportunity to think more about Google Wave, I began to really see the benefits of that type of real-time communication. I tried to think of a good example of the need for more instant communication which was filled neither by email nor instant messaging, and the best that I could come up with was email attachments. Have you ever sent an email with an attachment, only to find out a few minutes later that something in the attachment or email needed to be changed? Well Google Docs began addressing this problem, but Google Wave truly fixes it.
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This opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal fast forwards to January 2010, when Israel is forced to disarm by the United Nations. With geopolitics spiraling the way that they have been recently, and with the White House fully investing in its impotent foreign policy of little more than words, the situation described in the article is, frighteningly, not all that implausible.
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If you watch TV or listen to the radio, you have likely been bombarded with ads which claim to protect you from the impending disaster known as Identity Theft. This article examines that very trend, and presents some interesting statistics on how widespread the problem really is(n't).
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Two weeks later, President Obama's Nobel Prize win is still on people's minds, as it is still unclear what exactly he did to win, except appease the world's left. Therefore, Dennis Prager examines the Norwegian Nobel Committee's justification of their pick, sentence by sentence. This is particularly interesting, considering the majority of the committee objected to the selection of Obama.
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Finally, this story explains the cobwebs of the Mexican legal system, and one man's wrongful imprisonment which was ended only when a couple of filmmakers & lawyers heard his horrific story and decided to help. While Stratfor did offer some detailed intelligence on the growing trouble in Mexico, the legal issues there were not addressed. Luckily this article sheds some light on our southern neighbor.
