leaders

Avid fans of technology are more assertive and are likely to be leaders according to a recent online study from Mindset Media and Nielsen Online.The study looked at the characteristics of 25,000 U.S. adults and found fans of technology scored higher in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness but had low levels of modesty. According to the study, these traits are not driven by age, gender or income.

Concepts of open access for 700 MHz wireless spectrum coming up for auction have Republicans screaming mad. Let's play my favorite game, Follow The Money.

I know that the original question was "Who are the top 5 OSS thought leaders", and that's been covered by several folks already. I'm going to ask a similar, but different question.

Fortune magazine senior editor David Kirkpatrick is just out with an article on the future of Second Life, noting:

Over on the Church of the Customer Blog I read the following:

The Web requires leadership if it is to achieve its full potential. That leadership will rarely be given by senior management. So that means it's up to you.

According to an anonymous source, the conglomeration of world leaders at the recent G8 Summit in Scotland decided almost unanimously on an initiative to combat the threat of global warming. Their answer: strategically placed wind farms aimed at cooling the overall air temperature of the globe.

Yesterday, during one of the Gartner Symposium sessions, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt hosted a Q and A detailing their positions on a number of areas concerning Google's exponential growth.