Michael Giberson Enron was an unusual place, a source of many innovative business practices, not all of which turned out to be fraudulent. A pair of economists have found evidence that the creation of the EnronOnline trading platform contributed to market efficiency. According to a study by Donald Murry and Zhen Zhu, the two year …
Michael Giberson We here at The Knowledge Problem don’t do much meta-blogging, which may make us sort of an outlier in the blogging world. But a lot of the blogging about blogging just isn’t that interesting, and, speaking now just for myself, I don’t know that I could do any better. However, there are some …
Michael Giberson What?s the difference between deodorants and antiperspirants, that makes antiperspirants regulated by the FDA as an over-the-counter drug, while deodorants are not? That is just one of the questions answered in Cindy Skrzycki?s ?The Regulators? column in this morning?s Washington Post: ?Antiperspirant Makers Sweat Out FDA’s Data Request.? Skrzycki?s weekly column provides an …
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Michael Giberson Chris Anderson at the Long Tail says there is a problem with using social networks to generate recommendations: The problem with social software as a recommendation network has its roots in the problem of social software itself. “Friend” is a pretty blunt instrument when it comes to describing relationships, especially in matters of …
Michael Giberson Ain?t it the truth? The local Hollywood Video appears reasonably well stocked. It isn?t Netflix deep, or anything, but when I go looking for something a little off the beaten track I am not always dissappointed. For example, they have Ken Loach?s Land and Freedom (1995), but not the Argentine confidence game movie …
Michael Giberson Speaking of Daniel Drezner, he has a post up about the MacArthur Foundation Fellows program. Drezner discusses a story in Crain’s Chicago Business by Marc Sheffler that examines the relative lack of success of grants to writers in leading to new significant works. Tyler Cowen also comments. Assuming it is true that, as …
Michael Giberson Just yesterday The Economist said, “By all rights, Michael Powell ought to be thoroughly fed up. …Yet fresh from the ritzy Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mr Powell seems as full of zest for public office as ever.” Maybe not. Overnight, reports have begun appearing in online media saying that Powell would …
Michael Giberson The switch of local rock radio station WHFS to spanish pop has spurred a number of stories in the local media. Many have noted, as Lynne did, that the station was no longer what it used to be. (See Marc Fisher’s column from the Sunday Post: In a Way, WHFS Was Already Gone.) …
Michael Giberson Randall Parker at FuturePundit discusses research that suggests that being in love makes it harder for a person to assess the degree of emotional involvement of other couples. As he puts it: People who were in love and other people who were not in love were asked to view film clips of couples …
Michael Giberson So I was driving home last night, worming my way through traffic and punching buttons on the radio trying to find something to listen to. One of the buttons produced some brand of Latin pop, which surprised me since I hadn?t programmed any such station into the radio. But I just cursed at …
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