<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/059bdc25-0aef-4f7b-8f89-d533e2690e1e/B6A264AF-90AF-43CE-9EBA-428AF5708629/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech/2008_11_19_eric_schmidt_oil_is_finite_but_information_is_infinite.html" href="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech/2008_11_19_eric_schmidt_oil_is_finite_but_information_is_infinite.html" style="font-size: 11px;">money.cnn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech/2008_11_19_eric_schmidt_oil_is_finite_but_information_is_infinite.html">Google’s (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt has <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZpfpj4u0E0&amp;feature=user" target=_blank rel=nofollow>said several times</A> that he’s not interested in the position of Chief Technology Officer in the next administration</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech/2008_11_19_eric_schmidt_oil_is_finite_but_information_is_infinite.html">“Oil is finite, but information is infinite,” </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech/2008_11_19_eric_schmidt_oil_is_finite_but_information_is_infinite.html">“almost all of the world’s people will have access to almost all of the world’s information.” </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech/2008_11_19_eric_schmidt_oil_is_finite_but_information_is_infinite.html">can create both transparency — helping to deliver the truth in a wisdom-of-the-crowds type of way — as well as “engagement” and a two-way dialogue over important issues like energy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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