The US is no longer the land of opportunity. If you want that, move to the Nordic countries. The vertical axis on this chart is a measure of how likely you are to have an income that differs from that of your parents. The horizontal line is the usual measure of income inequality. So if [...]
Saturday, January 14, 2012
FrackIM is instant messaging bot (using XMPP) that Bob Wyman recently revealed. It tickles one of my long time interests – forward chaining on the Internet; e.g. how are updates propagated from where they occur to those who are interested. The problem is fraught challenges. How to make it private is one. For example [...]
John Dickerson is on the campaign trail and he’s fallen into a nostalgic funk. Back in the good old days it was more fun, or at least funny. So he writes about the how humorless the GOP candidates are. Wit, ah wit. Good fun making up insta-theories(tm) for this. I wonder if the PR [...]
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Over the last few months I’ve been entertaining the question: How exactly does a country exit a currency union? (Have I mentioned that 99 times out of a hundred harboring ideas about how to reform the currency system is a sign of mental illness?) You need to act quickly. Otherwise you get a bank run. [...]
More and more firms have cottoned onto a way to get expert talent almost for free. How? Running a contest and talk about community. If you draw in the right talent you can also pump up brand awareness. Here is a nice straight forward critique, Moleskin running a contest to get a new logo, of one [...]
Massachusetts has a nice GIS site. Here is a land use map for some of the Boston area, click to enlarge; or see it in their viewer.
Much excitement, Wegman’s is opening a store in Northboro Massachusetts. Wegman’s the archetype for the modern grocery store chain: gigantic, exhausting to browse (like a Home Depot or a Walmart), lots of signal value, lots of experience value; now quite as pretentious as WholeFoods, pricey. It’s privately held, so the wealth of it’s owners [...]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Here’s one of those b-school charts, this one about media reporting: I the short days between when AI finally works and the Singularity clicks in we can imagine that metadata will tag all articles with this information. I’ve only recently started reading Jay Rosen’s blog “Quote and Comment,” and I’m surprised that I like it. [...]
Friday, September 9, 2011
I had more trouble than I expected finding a video of Obama’s speech last night; so here it is: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Feeling playful about true names. Ben Hyde – Playfulness and the Art of Getting Stuff Wrong from Ignite Cardiff on Vimeo.
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