Category: Web/Tech

You will find it here, Jerry summarizes it like this:

The conversation broadly centers on how the web allows us to find, distill, and sort information as never before, which has profoundly affected people’s consumption of culture and creation of their own economies.  During the podcast Cowen touches on Lost and Battlestar Gallactica, the iPad, books, the future of the publishing industry, old and new media, Facebook, Twitter, ChatRoulette, and his favorite things on the internet.

Jerry's entire podcast series is here.  Jerry's more professional blog is here.  Jerry on music is here; he has the good sense to like M.I.A.

1. The productivity of Robert Tollison.

2. 1860 NYT review of Darwin.

3. Blog on ulterior motives.

4. In Italy, they run a "divorce trade fair."

5. Markets in everything (via Yana): refrigerator especially designed for storing kimchee.  Korean version here.

6. Which Metro areas have been the big winners and losers lately?  (NB: Michael Mandel is one of the most important economists writing today.)

1. The role of on-line experiments in the social sciences.

2. El Ataneo bookstore in Buenos Aires.

3. Create Your Own Economy, the audiobook is now on iTunes (via Chris Masse, the link is here).  

4. New and better stadiums raise the price of concessions.

5. When should you bench a basketball player for foul trouble?

6. Questions that are rarely asked.

1. How do college students describe great teachers?

2. Tina Harden returns "Gossip Girls" books to public library; she had kept them as a form of protest.

3. The difficulties of translating from the German.

4. How to increase voter turnout.

5. The economics and psychology of football (soccer).

6. List of Criterion titles for Netflix streaming.

7. Travel tips, for logistics.

This useful graphic explains it all.  You need to click on the listed years on the right hand side of the page, to see how the private parts of your profile dwindle with time.

In addition to whatever objections one may have to the level of privacy, I associate the number of changes with a fundamentally defective product idea.

For the pointer I thank Kat.

1. What econ bloggers worry about.

2. Excerpt from BBC on Lagos.

3. Intedrbreeding with Neandertals: a summary of recent discoveries, and here.

4. Trying to calculate the odds, vis-a-vis dating.

5. 1:45.

6. The wisdom of Tyler Cowen.

7. Is Facebook dying?

1. How people process information in a speed dating setting.

2. The $25,000 armless Barbie foosball set.  Seriously, whose relative status does this increase?

3. How moral are babies?

4. Scott Sumner "defends" China.

5. The cognitive bias song.

6. A public registry for all stock comment?

OH: "Facebook is the people you went to school with. Twitter is the people you wished you went to school with."

The link is here.  That's from Ben Casnocha, but who is OH?  Orrin Hatch?  Or could that be the state motto of Ohio?  Google would seem to indicate that the Ohio state motto is the anti-Thomist and indeed ultimately anti-philosophical "With God All Things Are Possible."  In 1997, the ACLU filed suit against this motto, claiming it violated the separation of church and state but they did not win the case.  Could this be Ben wishing it were the official motto of the state of Ohio because indeed all things are possible?

1. How Singapore advertises itself.

2. Markets in everything: Tokyo's cat cafes, good photos.

3. Mas-Colell on capital theory paradoxes.

4. New schemes for restaurant pricing, including the sale of tickets.

5. How will the IMF bailout of Greece be funded?

1. Photos of the oil spill.

2. Second Life users file class action lawsuit over use of virtual land.

3. Correction on Greek government employment.

4. Public sector pay increases, a must read.

5. The saga of the Hoiles family and The Orange County Register.

6. Why speech recognition software has stalled.

7. Jokes from North Korea.

1. The continuing success of Kaiser Permanente.

2. How Russians play the balalaika these days.

3. Should they try to improve Chinese signs?

4. Bryan Caplan on how rich the Greeks really are.

5. Interview with Gadhafi.

6. Freakonomics documentary review.

1. Greeks don't always pay their taxes.

2. Interview with the new Business Week editor.

3. Via Chris F. Masse, GetPivot.com, YouTube on it here, pretty neat, start with the video.

4. Mankiw on a VAT.

5. At the Fed, what kind of jokes do they laugh at?

6. The Chilean torture colony (incredible story).

7. Markets in everything, escaped gorilla edition.

1. Kwak responds to my review of the Johnson-Kwak book.

2. Angus on Greece.

3. There is a cocktail named after Kip Viscusi.

4. Amazing transforming apartment.

5. Chinese villages which have recollectivized.

1. Recipes for a perfect roast chicken.

2. Helium shortage threatens cryogenics.

3. Via Alex, TED talks for entrepreneurs.

4. Bursts: "…everything we do, we do in bursts–brief periods of intensive activity followed by long periods of nothingness. These bursts are so essential to human nature that trying to avoid them is not only foolish, but futile as well."

5. Sample chapter from Diego Gambetta's Codes of the Underworld.

6. Stories vs. systems.

7. Robert Mundell opens World Chess Championship game.