“Brought to you by Aghion, Algan, Cahuc and Shleifer, this is one of the best papers so far this year. It’s so good I’ll give you a longer than usual quotation from the opening pages: In a cross-section of countries,…”
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Archive for August, 2008
Regulation and Distrust
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Which states have the highest carbon dioxide emissions?
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008“In millions of metric tons: Texas: 688 California: 394 Pennsylvania: 275 Ohio: 262 Florida: 256 Illinois, Indiana, and New York come next. I didn’t know that Texas would rank so high on the list. And it’s interesting that #3, 4,…”
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If this is AdSense for RSS, Color Me Skeptical
Friday, August 8th, 2008“If you’re a blogger, you’re probably aware that FeedBurner recently began migrating customers to Google’s infrastructure, and in turn rolling out AdSense for RSS to certain publishers (Allen Stern had a good summary of the changes earlier this week). While initially I was optimistic when I heard Google’s plan back in May, calling it “ huge news for content publishers ,” today brings an alarming sign of the current state of the contextual advertising product. In the post we published …”
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Feldstein on Fiscal Policy
Friday, August 8th, 2008“Martin Feldstein, a proponent of the recent fiscal stimulus, said it didn’t work. Here are the facts. Tax rebates of $78 billion arrived in the second quarter of the year. The government’s recent GDP figures show that the level of…”
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The most obnoxious blogger in the world
Friday, August 8th, 2008“I read many blogs but there is only one — of the two or three hundred I have sampled — which I find truly obnoxious. I find the content obnoxious and I find the style obnoxious and I find the…”
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8 Resources for Message Boards 2.0
Friday, August 8th, 2008“It’ s always surprising when you visit sites oozing with new technological bells and whistles and wind up seeing a message board that looks like something from 1998! It’ s like a virtual speed bump on your digital journey through the Web. Well, thanks to a few innovative upstarts and some crusty old-timers, message boards as we know them are undergoing an extreme social media makeover. Here are a couple of the best new age message board sites, as well as …”
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Government 2.0: An Insider’s Perspective
Thursday, August 7th, 2008“This is the first of two posts written by Dr. Mark Drapeau about government 2.0. Until a few months ago, I didn’t know what “social software” or “new media” really was. Sure, I was on Facebook and LinkedIn. I certainly used Wikipedia and Craigslist – in fact, I even wrote a newspaper opinion piece about how their business model related to terrorist networks. But, honestly, I really had no idea what was going on in the Web 2.0 space. That …”
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Will’s theorem
Thursday, August 7th, 2008“(a) energy is not scarce; the historically most efficient sources (oil, coal, etc.) are; (b) a well-functioning price system will shift energy consumption to (cleaner) alternative energy sources as prices for historical extracted sources of energy rise; (c) the initial…”
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The Power of Oprah to help Obama
Thursday, August 7th, 2008“Finally I have something new to report on Barack Obama: Prior to the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary, Barack Obama was endorsed by Oprah Winfrey, a celebrity with a proven track record of influencing her fans’ commercial decisions. In this paper,…”
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Attention Sitemeter Users: Your Site is Down
Monday, August 4th, 2008“This just in from one of our regular tipsters here at Mashable – thousands of popular blogs are down tonight, from PerezHilton , ValleyWag , Consumerist all the way on down to LouisGray.com . Why? Because they use SiteMeter, a popular free traffic metrics utility. As of this moment, there hasn’ t been any official statement from SiteMeter via their blog nor by their support personell regarding the outage, but their main site still functions smoothly. Still, for all sites …”
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