Friday, January 16, 2015

The Road to Bakersfield

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A few weeks ago I drove up to Bakersfield for the day. I'd been meaning to make the trip for a while, but the immediate impetus was a se...
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The perils of being overly tax aggressive

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Wow.   Just wow. Josh Marshall : Which brings us back to Roger Ver, variously known as a "Bitcoin entrepreneur" or the ...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Visualizing a different kind of data

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I particularly liked the way he handled the dynamics. Definitely one for the Monday videos . First Arabesque, by Claude Debussy, performe...

This could almost get me to start listening to the TED radio hour

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Another sharp and well-observed clip from College Humor.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Plagiarism -- repeat offendees

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Alex Toth was perhaps the artist's artist in the field of comics and animation. For decades, if you asked people in the industry to name...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

I'm a bit nervous about posting this at the teaching blog

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As previously mentioned, I've been putting together short STEM videos for this weekly feature at You Do the Math . I've also been wa...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Crowdfunding research and the threshold of reportability

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Marketplace recently ran this story " As funding drops, scientists turn to the crowd " Here's an excerpt: Susan Nagel fr...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Why I am rooting for Netflix (no, really)

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Over the past few years, Netflix has become one of this blog's go-to examples for bad business writing. This is partially because there ...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Patent Law and Progress

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This is Joseph. This post on Google+ got me thinking about the relation between patent law and technological progress.  Consider: But 3...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

There's a flying pig joke here somewhere

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One of the many annoying things that tech journalist are prone to do is to start out with a somewhat overexcited but generally reasonable ac...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

The real challenge of infrastructure

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This is Joseph Scott Lemieux points out that the city of Seattle is now planning another  major tunnel project .  What makes this unfortu...
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Monday, January 5, 2015

Innovative business models

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Mark Evanier has an interesting observation about an extended warranty for an external hard disk he bought at Amazon. A 2-Year Data Recov...
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Friday, January 2, 2015

Charles Pierce shows how journalists should acknowledge a mistake

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No excuses. No "if anyone was offended." Just take responsibility and apologize to everybody . Then compare yourself to...

Push, push, push...

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BP: great company or the greatest company? A example of corporate push polling for your files.
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Happy New Year's -- Little Nemo grows up

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Season's greetings from Windsor McCay. For best results, open in another tab and expand.