Simply wow. An interesting article on GreenWhite yesterday really shocked me. How can government spend all this energy in preventing “Cyber Terrorism” when there is no law and order in other parts of our lives?

Today while catching up with my news feed, I read an interesting post on 37Signals which talks about a business model where you charge your customers for the services that you are providing them. Very weird. 

I have always wondered why can’t we build business on the web just like we have business on the street. If you go to a hair salon, you pay them for their services, similarly if you use an application online that you find useful, why can’t you pay $X for that?

The article refers to this article on slate.com, very interesting read indeed!

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is no effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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