Lynne Kiesling To continue Mike’s comments, and perhaps to illustrate the point of the article, Ed Driscoll has an article in Tech Central Station today about Chris Anderson’s “long tail” meme. One of the things that I found interesting in this article is when Driscoll points out that the tail is more influential than you …
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 …
Lynne Kiesling Apple Mini computers have been flying off the shelves, and in fact they have sold out of their entire first production run already. Apparently (although I hve not been able to verify this from any news sources), some individuals have bought many Minis and are reselling them on eBay, taking advantage of the …
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 …
Lynne Kiesling I woke up this morning to an email from Tim Worstall, who asked me the following question: how’s your map reading? Stumbling and Mumbling inspires his question by linking to research showing that women have poorer map-reading skills than men, and then asking Is it the case that women economists are better at …
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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 …
Lynne Kiesling Daniel Drezner has an great post from yesterday on airline deregulation. In commenting on the NY Times article that he references, Dan notes that … the major airlines are facing a serious financial squeeze, to be sure — but the 2001 post-9/11 government bailout worsened rather than aided their situation. I encourage you …
Lynne Kiesling Kevin Brancato’s post on easyjet and the Basel airport prompts me to offer up this quote from The Wealth of Nations that was in the sections we read for class today: The legislature, were it possible that its deliberations could be always directed, not by the clamorous importunity of partial interests, but by …
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Lynne Kiesling (with helpful ghostwriting from the KP Spouse) This morning breakfast at the KP House involved listening to an NPR interview with Christina Rosen of The New Atlantis, in which she has an article titled The Age of Egocasting. Rosen’s hypothesis is that new technologies like the remote control, TiVo, and the iPod satisfy …
Christina Rosen: Joining Cass Sustein As Modern Nannies? Read More »
Lynne Kiesling While noodling about this morning over my cup of tea, I wandered into some places that I should mention. Some are new to me, some are places I go and just don’t mention. 1. Grant McCracken’s This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology & Economics. One of those funny things, really; I …
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