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Microsoft kills Courier, HP kills Windows 7 Slate, Fusion Garage lets JooJoo suffer | TiPb

Two would-be Microsoft-based competitors pre-emptively bit the dust yesterday — both Microsoft’s own Courier and HP’s Windows 7 Slate are no more, and it’s fairly safe to say a third, Fusion Garage’s JooJoo, is being kept alive on life support for now. all this follows 500,000+ opening week iPad Wi-Fi sales for Apple, and comes on the eve of the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G release.
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No surprises here.

Seth's Blog: The coming melt-down in higher education (as seen by a marketer)

For 400 years, higher education in the US has been on a roll. From Harvard asking Galileo to be a guest professor in the 1600s to millions tuning in to watch a team of unpaid athletes play another team of unpaid athletes in some college sporting event, the amount of time and money and prestige in the college world has been climbing.

I'm afraid that's about to crash and burn. Here's how I'm looking at it.

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Compliant Workers Indeed

Our culture needed compliant workers, people who would contribute without complaint, and we set out to create as many of them as we could.

And so generations of students turned into generations of cogs—factory workers in search of a sinecure. We were brainwashed into fitting in, and then discovered that the economy wanted people who stood out instead.

When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

via Seth Godin, here [warning: PDF]. And what do I say in response? Truer words are rarely uttered.