Dr. Windley writes of the importance of frameworks to properly place information into context:
Thomas Barnett would call this article about a bill before the Philippines' Congress to reclassify VoIP an impending "rule-set rewrite." If you follow Barnett at all, you'll know that he places countries in what he calls the Gap or the Functioning Core. The Gap is the set of countries who are disconnected from the functioning Core in many respects. The Philippines is inside the Gap.
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One of the reasons I like reading things like Barnett's The Pentagon's New Map and Bobbitt's The Shield of Achilles is that the give me a framework for understanding events like this Philippines telecom bill. Without that framework all this news is just so much noise washing over you. With a framework, it starts to paint a picture.
