Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Monday, June 16th, 2008 by BH
Here at MeatyReads we are always on the look out for fascinating articles, speeches and books that are truly thought provoking. Hence we tend towards longer posts and our links are usually to longer pieces, rather than say newspaper articles, though I did just link to an AP story. At ...
Posted in Technology | No Comments »
Monday, June 16th, 2008 by BH
I am a pretty big fan of Richard Florida's work, and especially like his blog, but one thing that's always bugged me about his concept of the creative class and especially his more narrowly defined creative core is that many of the jobs seem downright boring. Maybe they are creative ...
Posted in Economics, Technology | No Comments »
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 by BH
Amazon is gradually approaching monopoly status in the provision of books and is increasingly willing to exert its market power in several areas of the book business. From the NYT:
In the latest in a series of disputes over the division of revenue from online sales, Amazon has disabled the “buy ...
Posted in Books, Economics, Technology | No Comments »
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 by BH
Tim Kane interviews Michael Jensen, co-founder of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN.) Among the excellent Q&A, I found this bit inspiring:
In my own field, I was part of a very small group doing cutting-edge work in the early days of modern finance, and I noticed that elites in all ...
Posted in Economics, Law, Technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 by BH
You can criticize Senators for not understanding how the internets work and all that, but the truth is no one has more than a modest understanding of the changing dynamics and most of the successes have been due to learning-by-doing. Consider advertising:
YouTube has done a lot of experimenting with ad ...
Posted in Economics, Technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 by BH
That's the title of a two part essay by Robert Atkinson of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF). From the intro to the series:
With the balance of trade shifting from multinational corporations to large emerging markets — such as China and India — some nations have been tempted to ...
Posted in Economics, Technology | No Comments »
Monday, May 5th, 2008 by CJB
Yahoo shares tumbled today, but I think it is a perfect time to buy Yahoo shares and/or call options. TechCrunch has carried numerous posts on this, and I think Michael Arrington is very interested in this deal obviously. He concurs that Microsoft very much still wants Yahoo and is potentially ...
Posted in Economics, Technology | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 by BH
Mac clones live again. It's no iMac, but it is cheaper. Given its packaging and general ugliness, I can't imagine they'll get Apple's support, but it is an interesting development nonetheless.
Posted in Technology | No Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008 by BH
Stephen Dubner at the Freakonomics blog asks several commentators how to measure innovation and what impact it has on society.
One of the respondends, John Seely Brown, co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, provided a thoughtful answer but then asked an interesting question himself by channeling Douglas North:
What innovation ...
Posted in Economics, Technology | No Comments »
Friday, April 25th, 2008 by BH
I really enjoyed this powerpoint presentation that surveys the use of various calculating devices (HT). It's especially fun for those of you who have never seen a slide rule before.
Posted in Technology | No Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 by BH
The Brookings folks are agitating for a new institution to fund innovation research. They have a policy report here and the full report is on their site here. The general thrust:
The federal government should establish a new National Innovation Foundation (NIF) with the sole mission of promoting innovation. The NIF’s ...
Posted in Economics, Technology | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 14th, 2008 by BH
Robert Scoble just had a post on this, so I was interested to hear CJB's thoughts in his earlier post. Scoble discusses social networks broadly and Twitter in particular:
The friend divide means that people who have no friends on these services have poor experiences and aren’t getting any interesting information ...
Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 14th, 2008 by CJB
Many people have probably never even heard of Twitter, let alone know its value for breaking news. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch says:
It’s clear that Twitter is the place that a lot of news breaks first (example), hours before blogs and days before mainstream media. No one has created an ...
Posted in Technology | No Comments »
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 by CJB
What type of computer is the best? Is it Dell or HP or Sony or Toshiba or another brand? Also, how does one maximize performance vis-a-vis the ram and processor speed and 32-bit vs 64-bit. There are a few other options as well of course. I ...
Posted in Technology | 5 Comments »
Friday, April 11th, 2008 by BH
CORPORATIONS live and die by ideas, and many enterprises have used Web-based technologies, like blogs, wikis and social networks, to gather thoughts and hasten their way into new services, products and cost-saving steps.
Now executives say they are harnessing a new Web tool, called prediction markets, to transform the idea pipelines ...
Posted in Economics, Technology | No Comments »
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 by BH
To do so, you just need to turn off the internet, at least according to Robert Scoble [n.b. this does not apply to you AS, you must get caught up on the posts in your google reader, now]. The funny thing about my last comment is that AS will only ...
Posted in Technology | No Comments »
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 by BH
Alex Tabarrock, writing at the other MR, has a good post about the incentives facing local governments. Go read the post and then come back. We're waiting. Good. So I emailed a good friend of mine to get his thoughts since he's a transportation engineer and works in this field ...
Posted in Politics, Technology | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 by BH
I am writing this post on an HP laptop that I've been generally happy with, aside from the trackpad, which I cannot operate properly. I didn't like all the trial products the company installed on the machine and it took me a while to get it clean and ready to ...
Posted in Economics, Technology | No Comments »
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 by BH
That's the title of a fascinating article in Wired about Ray Kurzweil, the inventor and author. I'll link to it when it goes online, but for now grab a copy at your newsstand or read it at Borders. This blew my mind:
Kurzweil does not believe in half measures. He takes ...
Posted in Technology | No Comments »
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 by BH
AS sent this article to me and CJB and I meant to say something about it earlier. Now I see that Arnold Kling beat me to it. Arnold notes correctly that for some people working for a large firm can be rewarding. For example, when we're young we might not ...
Posted in Economics, Technology | No Comments »