US Patent Office

Search 500,000 Documents, Review 160,000 Pages In 20 Hours, And Then Do It All Over Again is a breathy puff about the US Patent Office. Given the number of ludicrous patents that are issued, the process can’t be as good as described, surely?

Google’s growing pains

Fortune asks Can Google Grow Up? Is it a company that is running by the new rules forged in the dotcom boom or is it just out of control?

BitTorrent live sales model

Don Park suggests a real-life BitTorrent model for selling those “knowledge required” goods that in-store sales people often can’t sell properly.

Sony and China

What Sony Tells Us is that 20k jobs are gone for ever in an attempt to a) win business in China and b) compete against China. As Mitch says, China is likely to be the new competitor for most every business sector.