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Dividends, Bloggers, and Elevators

Thursday, January 16th, 2003

Today MSFT announced a dividend, surprisingly. This ought to please the politicians. I explained last year why dividends are completely inconsequential, but I think this might be a positive thing. Issuing a dividend converts the “pile of cash that the company is sitting on” into a “pile of cash that the shareholders are sitting on”. [...]

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Renmin Voice

Saturday, January 4th, 2003

Oy, Vey! Mark Pilgrim starts out his new year by disparaging the Semantic Web, and Dare Obasanjo jumps in to dish out the abuse. Rather than respond to their individual points (many of which are based in truth, but cruelly distorted), I’ll use this as an opportunity to give testament to the virtues of Semantic [...]

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