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How 10 classic toys were invented… I had no idea that Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son.

Cheap gas from coal… Wired calls this “bad news”.

Can venture capital come in from the cold?

15 tools for gmail addicts.

Bad news week for newspapers.

The [...]

Government Motors

As you might suspect, my confidence that the government is going to go into GM and fix everything that needs fixing is pretty low. The problems that GM (and Chrysler and Ford) have been long in the making and represent intractable conflicts of the kind that government is a poor arbitrator of, between labor and [...]

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General Motors (GM) bankruptcy trade
When The Government Owns You
Telling the truth or being positive?
Read more on General Motors, Chrysler, Big Three Auto Woes at Wikinvest

Twitter Ghostwriters Wanted

The notion that Twitter is just content to be manufactured to support a brand, in this case a celebrity, is pretty damn offensive. It shines an unflattering light on the nature of celebrity, that of glossy veneer over a porous substrate.

I gotta go with Shaq on this one…

“It’s 140 characters. It’s so few [...]

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Harvard economist blames Twitter for down economy.

The Seinorage Curse, U.S. exposure to number one export, the value of the dollar.

10 newspapers that wills survive the apocalypse.

The global economic crisis isn’t about money, it’s about power.

Public outrage as a systemic risk.

Big Media Cartel About To Punish Netflix?

Hollywood tried this with iTunes and failed miserably. There is no data to suggest that when consumers can’t use their favorite online media service for specific content that they abandon it altogether and flock to a studio or label branded alternative, what happens is that they simply stop watching or listening that label or studio [...]

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Netflix Stock is Hot (NFLX)
Why Netflix Continues To Be A Beast
Read more on Netflix at Wikinvest

Vanishing Honeybees Revisited

A few years ago I wrote about the now discredited link between cell phone signals and honeybee colony collapse disorder. Here’s an interesting followup on what the latest research is indicating.

The growing consensus among researchers is that multiple factors such as poor nutrition and exposure to pesticides can interact to weaken colonies and [...]

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Cell phone detects bad breath
Nice Pop - Confidence Up?
Sunday Morning Coffee
Read more on Cell Phone Manufacturers at Wikinvest

NewsSift, First Impressions Matter in Search

I’ve been curious about the Financial Times’ news search service, called NewsSift, because it promises to leverage the substantial amount of metadata about financial news held by the FT for a pseudo semantic search experience. In other words, better targeting and categorization about news stories.

So I fired up the browser and headed on over to [...]

Facebook and the Nature of Power Struggles in Social Networking

Robert may well be right in his analysis but his comment about Facebook always pissing off its users reveals another dimension to this current kerfuffle, who really owns Facebook?

Before we get deeper into this, remember that Facebook has always pissed off its users. First, you’ve gotta realize that in Facebook’s life it will [...]

IRS offers guidelines for Ponzi scheme victims

Does this mean I can deduct my share of the mortgage bailout?

Among the guidelines the IRS issued yesterday was allowing investors to claim their losses from a Ponzi scheme as a theft loss rather than a capital loss, a personal casualty loss or a personal theft loss. Investors who lost in Ponzi schemes [...]

More on this topic (What's this?) Read more on Ponzi scheme at Wikinvest

Friday Link Post

Here’s some links to keep you busy today:

Kedrosky presents a good roundup of financial research reports worth looking at.

“How unlimited interest rates destroyed the economy”.

A really neat Wordpress plugin that shows you a heat map where people click on your site.

MeeHive personalized newspaper, this is a derivative of the Kosmix service I recently [...]

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The Impact Of Rising Interest Rates On Stocks And Bonds
ING Direct’s new interest rate cut
What to Do When Interest Rates Rise
Read more on Interest Rates at Wikinvest
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