Cartographic downer. Here’s an interactive map of job gains and losses in the US… Run it and watch the New Orleans job loss bloom just after Katrina….chilling stuff until you see the same blooms for every major city this past…
Economics
Dave Pollard over at How to Save the World discusses the virtues of the gift economy. Let me snip his opening paras: “Our society puts a value on human activities only when they can be monetized – when a transaction…
From Andrea Weckerle: Speaking of currency, Sibley believes that within 12 months or so the lines between real currency and Linden Dollars will really blur, with, for example, debit cards being used in SL. Reuters just reported that Australia is…
A couple of years ago, I was with an American tourist in a Danish supermarket. He was gape-jawed for a while, then turned to me: “No wonder you don’t miss home. You’ve got all the same stuff here!” Since we…
While my back was turned at Reboot, B. L. Ochman, bless her heart, came up with five reasons she doesn’t like full posts in RSS feeds. She titles the post “Why Full Posts in RSS Feeders (sic) Don’t Make Sense”…
Two people watch the same video clip of a traffic accident. One is asked how fast the cars were going when they contacted one another. The other is asked how fast the cars were going when they smashed one another….
Desirable Roasted Coffee’s Code of Blogging Ethics is voluntary (and applies to this site only). I wrote it partly in response to Nick Denton’s call for a formal blog ethics committee (seconded by Jason Calacanis), a call that I considered…
Hans Henrik has found and posted a fascinating paper on the relationship between good aesthetic product design and share performance. That a causal relationship exists between the two is not proven, but it’s hard to imagine there is no relationship….
When the Bush Administration pledged a paltry $15 million (later grudgingly upped to $35 million), I thought I would not be alone in thinking it tightfisted. In correspondence to friends, acquaintances, and a couple US mailing lists, I said so…
