Pittsburgh Pirates' James McDonald, at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., June 2011. More photography by Alan Kotok
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- Science Business. Commentary: Manufacturing the Health Care Venture Crisis. 27 November 2011. The National Venture Capital Association used selected bits and pieces from its survey to predict a retreat by investors from U.S. life sciences companies.
- Technorati. Friendly to What Business?. 1 October 2011. If states want the big bucks from big brains and the benefits they bring, then they need to make the work being done and people doing the work feel at home.
- Alan Kotok, storified by Local Pigeon, a social media developer. 22 August 2011
- Technorati. Health Care Costs and Health Care Spending -- Not the Same Thing. 11 July 2011. If you want to control health care spending, you first have to control health care costs.
- Technorati. Why American Manufacturing Rocks. 19 June 2011. Innovations built on brainpower rather than race-to-the-bottom cheap labor are propelling American manufacturing and exports.
- SoftXML. UBL Speaks Volumes About Doing Business. 21 April 2011. Companies that do business electronically -- even small businesses -- discover they deal in multiple markets and thus need to speak various business languages. That's a key reason for an OASIS specification called the Universal Business Language (UBL).
- SoftXML. A Model for Sharing Data and Stopping the Bad Guys. 28 March 2011. When issues are terrorism, criminal justice, and disaster management, the stakes of "talking to each other" rise dramatically.
- SoftXML. XBRL: Finance Speaking XML. 13 February 2011. If finance is the language of business, then XBRL -- the eXtensible Business Reporting Language -- is the language of finance in XML.
