Archive for May, 2008

I haven’t read this entire study and to be totally truthful I don’t know much about this umbrella chambers of commerce organization in the EU, so it’s hard to gauge how credible the research is. “It will take the EU until 2072 to reach US levels of income per capita, and then only if the [...]

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“But Boris Ferrera, an official with Honduras’ civil aviation authority, said there was plenty of room for the plane to land.” [From Plane skids off runway in Honduras, 5 dead | Reuters]

29May

$69.10 Per Click

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Top 25 Google AdSense keywords, all of them are for lawyers. (link via OverLawyered)

This is simply outrageous and yet another sad example of why public schools are failing. Seven Washington high schools won’t be getting their share of a $13.2 million grant to enhance the teaching of Advanced Placement courses in math in science. Washington state won the grant last year, but stakeholders haven’t been able to figure [...]

28May

NewsGator Editor’s Desk Beta

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

We are beta testing a new version of our popular Editor’s Desk widget management application. Managing the content of a widget has always been a strong point of our hosted service, with not only post level control over RSS feeds but also the ability to create search feeds that scour a broad range of sources [...]

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New US Equity Low Volatility ETF from BMO
The Hidden Cost of Gov’t Protection
Weekend Reads
Read more on Beta at Wikinvest

I met up for coffee with Jitendra Gupta and Tedd Corman just a week ago and we talked at length about where they are as a company and the spectrum that includes comment tracking systems (e.g. CoComment) on one end and comment replacement services (e.g. Intense Debate) on the other. The net takeaway is that [...]

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Investing in Coal in China
India Coal Imports
Coal Stocks Struggle To Catch A Spark
Read more on Coal Power at Wikinvest

The trade group, which represents 1.2 million residential and commercial brokers, called the settlement “a win-win” for its industry and consumers. “Today I can say with clear knowledge … that the real estate industry is dynamic, entrepreneurial and fiercely competitive,” said NAR President Richard Gaylord in a statement. [From Online real estate agents get equality [...]

27May

TSA Bag Policy

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

UPDATE: okay here’s a little more detail on this, it doesn’t sound like such a dumb idea as described here. Like I frequently say, government solutions often end up creating problems bigger than the ones they are trying to solve… this is just such an example. What exactly is the point of this exercise? The [...]

27May

Porn Tax

Posted by Jeff as Public Policy

This is legislative cynicism at it’s worst. The only reason the legislature believes that they can get away with a 25% tax on porn is that they believe there will be few who will publicly criticize them for trying. Proposed Porn Tax in California: “This bill would impose a tax on the sale of, or [...]

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Network TV and softcore porn? (Video)
Lauryn Hill Tax Slave
Tax Freedom Day
The Tax Free Tour
Read more on Sex and Porn, Taxes at Wikinvest

In one sense, the Web is a blessing. Daily circulation for the newsprint Post, now 673,000, may be down from 813,000 in 2000, but we are drawing an eye-opening 9.4 million unique visitors online each month, 85 percent of them from outside the D.C. circulation area. Those readers don’t bring in the cash that print [...]

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Sequester Holding Americans Hostage
Hoot Owl Fire
Newspaper Paywalls
Will 85 be the line in $CL_F -
Read more on Newspapers, China Electron Corp, Sim Tech GRP LTD at Wikinvest

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