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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 ultimate guide for everything Twitter. Wikia giving [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 make [...]
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 [...]
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 go [...]
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 will [...]
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 [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. I am the VP of Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction and I write about a range of topics that interest me, including public policy, technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and global issues.
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