The Moral-Hazard Myth
The bad idea behind our failed health-care system.
by Malcom Gladwell The New Yorker
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
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Google Talk
They say talk is cheap. Google thinks it should be free. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world. Google Talk offers you:
* Choice: Get in touch how and when you want to–over email, IM or a call
* Quality: Talk through your computer but hear your friends as if they were in the same room
* Convenience: Your Gmail contacts are pre-loaded into Google Talk so inviting or talking to your friends is just a click away
Google Talk is in beta and requires a Gmail username and password.
Reviews:
Download Squad
Weblogs Inc.
SearchEngineWatch
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
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Klingon Fairy Tales
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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Eva ... I need one of these from FxBallery.
Via Inhabitat
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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Online Bettors Find a New Love: Real Estate
New York Times
New interest in online betting/exchanges and the reference to James Surowiecki's "The Wisdom of Crowds" caught my eye. Worth a read.
Monday, August 22, 2005
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A9.com Maps
This is very cool. Street-level photos from both sides. Google from above. A9 from the ground. If I were in the realty business, I'd be building a new API.
Friday, August 19, 2005
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Classic Cases Live On at HBS
HBS Working Knowledge
Harvard Business School is famous for its case method of classroom eaching. Here is a look at some of the classic cases that have been taught to business leaders worldwide—and are still in use today.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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Gimme A Ruling
Licensed by the United States Golf Association, GIMME A RULING™ is the newest way to master the Rules of Golf – the fun way! This game set presents 550+ actual on-the-course situations and gives you the correct rulings as provided by the USGA.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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Do not play quarters with this guy.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
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Flickr: Make a badge
Monday, August 15, 2005
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In a New Yorker First, Target to Be Sole Advertiser
by Stuart Elliot, New York Times
For the first time in the 80-year history of The New Yorker magazine, a single advertiser will sponsor an entire issue.
The Aug. 22 issue of The New Yorker, due out Monday, will carry 17 or 18 advertising pages, all brought to you by the Target discount store chain owned by the Target Corporation. The Target ads will even supplant the mini-ads from mail-order marketers that typically fill small spaces in the back of the magazine.
Monday, August 15, 2005
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Major Tournament Golf Venues You Can Play
By Larry Olmsted, Special for USA TODAY.com
When Tiger Woods ran away with his second British Open Championship last month on the world's oldest course, many fans watching on television had the same thought: "wouldn't it be fun to play there?" In this case they were in luck, since the Old Course at St. Andrews is among the most public — and most popular — courses in the world. But this is the exception rather than the rule when it comes to the Majors.
Golf's four biggest events, the tournaments that comprise the Grand Slam, include the US Open, British Open, Masters and PGA Championship. The majority of these are held at very private courses that the average golfer, even with deep pockets, has little hope of ever playing. The good news is that with the exception of the Masters, which is always held at the very much off-limits Augusta National in Georgia, the domestic Majors are slowly becoming more public-golf friendly, while the British Open, officially known as simply the Open Championship, is always held at courses that, with some effort, you can play.
Friday, August 12, 2005
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Banksy Does Gaza
Bansky: Official Site, Wiki, BBC article,
Image from HHCL/Red Cell's new BigShinyThing.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
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New York Times Merges Staffs
Web Site, Print Newsroom Employees to Be Consolidated
By Justin Gillis, Washington Post Staff Writer
The New York Times said yesterday it would combine the news staffs of its print and digital arms, a significant step in an industry struggling with big changes in the way people get their news.
The news operation that puts together the Times Web site, about 40 people, will be combined with the far larger print newsroom in an effort to better meld the cultures and operations of the newspaper and its digital cousin, the Times said in a memorandum to staff members.
NY Times to combine its print and online newsrooms
by Erica Iacono PR Week Worldwire
The New York Times is planning to combine its website and print newsrooms in an effort to increase collaboration between journalists.
The memo from executive editor Bill Keller and Martin Nisenholtz, SVP of digital operations, cited a desire to grow the digital news operation.
"This will enable us to fully tap the creative energy of this organization and, thus, raise digital journalism to the next level," the memo stated.
NY Times strides towards an integrated future
by Jemima Kiss, Journalism.co.uk
This week's announcement reflects the increasing credibility of online news, as well as the recognition that readers now expect content on multiple platforms. The paper has a policy of what it calls 'platform neutrality' - that the quality of journalism is more important than the method of delivery.
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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Flickr: Interestingness!
Google's Page Rank (jacked by Yahoo!) meets Flickr's Photos. The result? Interestingness! Not since chocolate and peanut butter accidentally mixed company has a combination been this tasty.
Monday, August 08, 2005
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What Is Skype
O'Reilly Network
ps: This post is for mom ...
Monday, August 08, 2005
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The Dark Side of Technorati Tags
Om Malik’s Broadband Blog
Monday, August 08, 2005
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How to Be a Leader in Your Field
A Guide for Students in Professional Schools
Philip E. Agre
Department of Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
A profession is more than a job -- it is a community and a culture. Professions serve society by pooling knowledge among their members and creating incentives to synthesize new knowledge. They also help their members to build networks, find jobs, recruit staff, find collaborators, and organize around the issues that affect them. In a world without change or innovation, professions would not be necessary. But in a world where change and innovation are ever more intense, every occupation needs more of the institutions and culture of traditional professions such as law, medicine, engineering, education, librarianship, public administration, business, and architecture.
Monday, August 08, 2005
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Google Blog: Guest Bloggers: those Freakonomics Guys
Monday, August 08, 2005
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Golf in the Land of the Midnight Tee Time
Jeff Klein, New York Times
From May 23 through July 24, the sun doesn't set at all on Hov, 95 miles above the Arctic Circle in the Lofoten islands of Norway, so golfers can hit the Lofoten Golf Links around the clock. And they do. Green fees cover as much golf as you can play in eight hours. It's said that a golfer can complete 16 rounds in 24 hours.
Great article. Don't miss the interactive features ...
Monday, August 08, 2005
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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2005 Results
Winner:
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual.
Dan McKay
Fargo, ND
My Favorite:
Grand Panjandrum's Special Award
India, which hangs like a wet washcloth from the towel rack of Asia, presented itself to Tex as he landed in Delhi (or was it Bombay?), as if it mattered because Tex finally had an idea to make his mark and fortune and that idea was a chain of steak houses to serve the millions and he wondered, as he deplaned down the steep, shiny, steel steps, why no one had thought of it before.
Ken Aclin
Shreveport, LA
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
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As a side-note, this is the first thing I've read from CNET or news.com that I'd consider news-worthy in quite some time.
Yahoo to launch blog ad network
By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com
Yahoo is planning to launch on Wednesday an ad network for small Web publishers intended to strengthen its hand against rival Google, a source familiar with the plan told CNET News.com.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
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Bad to the Last Drop
By Tom Standage, NYTimes
London: It's summertime, and odds are that at some point during your day you'll reach for a nice cold bottle of water. But before you do, you might want to consider the results of an experiment I conducted with some friends one summer evening last year. On the table were 10 bottles of water, several rows of glasses and some paper for recording our impressions. We were to evaluate samples from each bottle for appearance, odor, flavor, mouth, feel and aftertaste - and our aim was to identify the interloper among the famous names. One of our bottles had been filled from the tap. Would we spot it?
Tom Standage, author of "A History of the World in Six Glasses," is the technology editor of The Economist.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
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a nonist public service pamphlet
there is a growing epidemic in the cyberworld. a scourge which causes more suffering with each passing day. as blogging has exploded and, under the stewardship of the veterans, the form has matured more and more bloggers are finding themselves disillusioned, dissatisfied, taking long breaks, and in many cases simply closing up shop. this debilitating scourge ebbs and flows but there is hardly a blogger among us who has not felt it’s dark touch. we’re speaking, of course, about blog depression.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
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This looks good.
First Luggage
Express Check In . No Queues. No Hassle. Relax.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
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