Thomas Van Der Wal compares LinkedIn and Facebook (with a bit of Twitter thrown in). Here’s the upshot:
Michael Arrington writes about Facebook has LinkedIn in their Crosshairs, but I have been finding Facebook becoming increasingly less valuable the more people I have connected in it. The converse is opposite for me, LinkedIn becomes [...]
The day the Nobel Prize for Economics is announced is one of my favorite days to read blogs. You have to assume that everyone who becomes an academic in the field of economics at least ponders the idea of someday being a Nobel Prize winner, and so the day the Nobel Prize is announced is [...]
Scott Rosenberg writes about the new evidence-based scheduling feature in FogBugz 6.0. FogBugz has long supported enabling developers to enter estimates for how long it will take to resolve issues, and to enter the time spent resolving them as well. The problem was that once you did that, there were no really easy ways to [...]
What is it with conservatives and the anger, lately? On a serious note, we find conservatives putting a concerted effort into debunking the life story of a 12 year old who claims to have benefited from a government health insurance program. Conservative bloggers have adopted the tactics used to attack John Kerry’s military service [...]
Ian Rogers, the general manager of Yahoo! Music lays it out in simple terms for the music industry:
But now, eight years later, Amazon’s finally done what was clearly the right solution in 1999. Music in the format that people actually want it in, with a Web-based experience that’s simple and works with any [...]
Tonight I was listening to Terry Gross interview Stephen Colbert, and I was fascinated to hear his reaction to the idea that his show might influence the political discourse. (You can listen to the interview here.) He rejects the idea that his show or satirists in general play any role whatsoever in shaping the political [...]
Jeff Atwood posts on YouTube’s copyright hypocrisy and how the fair use rules for copyright work. He points out that the copyrighted video clips posted to YouTube generally do not pass muster for fair use, and that YouTube is essentially flouting the law with the silent assent of many copyright holders.
Last October I posted about [...]
The New York Times has a big article on state lotteries today, and the verdict isn’t good. North Carolina, as the state which has most recently started its own lottery, is featured prominently, and the results are not good. The end result is exactly what any economist would predict:
In reality, most of the [...]
Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 7 will no longer be restricted to only those installations of Windows XP that pass Windows Genuine Advantage validation. I’m glad to see Microsoft make the right decision here. IE7 is, among other things, much more secure than IE6. Forcing millions of computers to languish with insecure browsers punished [...]
I couldn’t publish anything yesterday because upgrading Apache (to deal with some security issue) blew up suexec and I couldn’t get it to work again. suexec is an Apache module that you can use to tell the Web server to run its CGI scripts as a user other than the user who owns the Apache [...]