Examining America's presidential candidates | Examining the candidates | The Economist (3)
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In our special report on the election we analyse the two candidates’ economic plans. Here, we ask professional economists to give us their viewsAS THE financial crisis pushes the economy back to the top of voters’ concerns, Barack Obama is starting to open up a clear lead over John McCain in the opinion polls. But among those who study economics for a living, Mr Obama’s lead is much more commanding. A survey of academic economists ...
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Alex said:
“The minimum rating of one severely overestimates the quality of Bush’s economic policies,” says one non-aligned economist.
Focus On Attention First, And The Money Will Follow (3)
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Kevin Kelly's latest post tackles a pretty common subject around here, about how the most important thing in a business model is getting attention, and from there, the money will follow. It's a response to those who insist that everything needs to be paid for up front. The problem is that that doesn't work when no one understands why they should give you any money. In some ways, it's just another way of saying the ...
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kamikyo said:
applies to communities too.
BBC NEWS | Technology | iTunes store shutdown feared (7)
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As royalty rates for digital music are to be set this week comments emerge from Apple about a possible closure of iTunes.
Activision CEO Suggests Record Labels Should Be Paying To Get In Video Games (6)
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Remember a couple months ago, when Warner Music's Edgar Bronfman complained that the makers of video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band should be paying more for the music they used? He claimed, incorrectly, that the games were "entirely dependent" on the record labels' content. That was wrong, and totally downplayed the fact that the video games were actually adding value to the music. Now it appears that the maker of Guitar Hero, Activision, ...
Even Light Users Would Look For Alternatives If Their ISP Uses Broadband Caps (4)
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Longtime readers know that I'm no fan of metered broadband or it's half-sibling "broadband caps." They're not the worst thing in the world, but they set in place the wrong incentives, making an internet connection a lot less valuable. There are certainly those who disagree, but we've lived in worlds with metered internet access and phone systems before, and it leads to decreased overall usage -- and that's not a good thing. It acts as ...
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macshaggy said:
I'm already thinking about leaving Time Warner because of the BS of their fees. Can someone give me effective fast service for a decent price.
Misunderstanding The Problems Of The Patent System (3)
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Earlier this year, Alex Iskold wrote up a piece on why the economics of "free" was somehow bad. That didn't make much sense and we tried to explain why. Now he's written another article trying to explain why the patent system is in crisis, and it seems equally as confused. We absolutely agree that the patent system has some serious, serious problems -- but it's not for the reasons Iskold describes. First, he claims that ...
this is sippey.typepad.com: marshall on mccain (2)
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Josh Marshall in "Losing Everything": My verdict may be a severe one but I think a lot of people -- a lot of former admirers -- are coming around to agreeing with the general outlines. McCain has revealed himself as a liar well outside the permissive standards applied to politicians. He's shown himself to be reckless to the point of instability, repeatedly putting the country at risk (exploiting the Georgia crisis, picking Palin, storming the ...
13 Gary Vaynerchuck Tips on Building a Profitable Blog (18)
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One of the sessions that I enjoyed most at Blog World Expo (actually it was one of the few sessions I actually was able to get to) was a keynote by Gary Vaynerchuck. While I’m sure he rubs some up the wrong way his tips on building a successful blog (and business) were refreshingly honest, entertaining and inspiring. Here are 13 snippets/quotes of his keynote that I thought were ‘tweet worthy’. “answer every single email ...
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ReducedHackers said:
this guys shares the same enegy as me the difference he has a product to market!
Where Attention Flows, Money Follows - The Technium (24)
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The new rules for the new economy can be summarized as: Where ever attention flows, money will follow. Almost anything else except attention can be manufactured as a commodity. Luxury goods are only luxuries temporarily. They quickly are counterfeited and commodified. Premium brands are only premium because they garner a surplus of attention. Maintain an incoming flow of attention and money will follow. That is really all you need to know. Thankfully there are a ...
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Atle said:
I just don't get the attention economy folks. It's just a bad re-hash of "the audience as a commodity" thesis.
Apple Rejects Podcast App...duplicates itunes functionality? (24)
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Here's why I'm glad I'm not involved in this iPhone nonsense
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Andrey Petrov said:
So so bad, apparently there's more similar apps that get rejected. Imagine putting in weeks of time and resources to develop an app, just to have it rejected for some stupid reason like "we don't want competition against iTunes", ugh. Come on Android, hurry up (said the freshly-bought iPhone owner...)
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Jesse said:
One of the tricky parts of being a platform provider.
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GregEh said:
Evilness grows.
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Ooble said:
Bring on Android. I don't care if it sucks - at least it will get better. Seems like the iPhone App Store is only going to get worse.
Mike Huckabee - less lipstick, more issues (2)
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Last night, while on Hannity & Colmes I cut Barack Obama some slack on his reference to "lipstick on a pig." Now I personally don't think he was referring to Gov. Palin, but if he was he should apologize immediately. Almost twenty four hours into this new controversy and the accusations are continuing to fly from both campaigns. That's too bad. Let's shift back to the issues. Barack Obama released an education proposal yesterday that ...
Yahoo’s Opens Itself Up Tomorrow–Literally | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (1)
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Yahoo–because it has decided its living-inside-a-cave press strategy has been, shall we say, a bust–has invited a passel of media tomorrow to its Santa Clara, Ca. HQ and will trot out a range of its top execs to talk specifically about the various facets of its “open” strategy.In an attempt to redefine and refocus itself, Yahoo has correctly wed itself to the trend toward more open platforms, rather than locking consumers into its once tightly ...
Palin, religion, the 2008 election (1)
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Although Sarah Palin's entry into the 2008 presidential race has energized the religious right within the Republican Party, don't expect religion to be a major issue in this year's election, says University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) political communications expert Larry Powell, Ph.D. The move away from overt religious appeals may be due to an effort to avoid what Powell calls the "Pharisee Effect." The Pharisee Effect is a phenomenon when religious appeals in politics ...
Unique animal species can survive in space (1)
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Water bears (tardigrades) are the first animals in the world to have survived exposure to the vacuum and radiation of space. This has been established by Ingemar Jönsson, a researcher at Kristianstad University in Sweden. It has been nearly a year since the ecologist Ingemar Jönsson had some 3,000 microscopic water bears sent up on a twelve-day space trip. The aim of the research project, which was supported by the European Space Agency, was to ...
Move over T9, here comes Swype | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET (1)
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The inventor of the T9 keyboard technology for numeric keypads, Cliff Kushler, is back in the game with a new alphanumeric entry technology for today's devices: touch-screen laptops and smartphones. His new technology, Swype, is quite simple to use, although beneath the user interface there's a lot going on.Swype works with an on-screen QWERTY keyboard like you have on the tablet version of Windows and on the iPhone. But instead of tapping letters out, you ...
Spielberg Accused Of 'Stealing' Plot For A Movie? (2)
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Another day, another silly attempt to own an idea that will backfire badly. It would appear that the guy who owns the rights to a short story, It Had to Be Murder, which was the basis for the famous Alfred Hitchcock movie, Rear Window is now suing Steven Spielberg for copyright infringement, because Spielberg produced the movie Disturbia last year, that had similarities to Rear Window. This seems like a huge stretch, no matter how ...
