The State of the Union Speech, and the opposition party’s resposne, would be more productive if the audience held their applause until the end.
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My comments on the new Microsoft/Yahoo ad deal appears below. Please ignore the date.
Greg Elin (@gregelin) of the Sunlight Foundation schools you on government trasparency in under 5 minutes:
At George Mason University a while back, I was treated to a preview of some economic research; this time, a paper studying whether or not consumers read the fine print. “Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? A Test of the Informed Minority Hypothesis Using Clickstream Data.” Authored by Yannis Bakos, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, and David Trossen. [...]
Over the July 4 weekend, relatives and friends kept asking me: Which mobile phone should I buy? There are so many choices. I told them I love my iPhone, but all kinds of new devices from BlackBerries and Samsungs to Palm’s new Pre make strong showings, and the less well-known HTC, one of the biggest innovators [...]
Come join us for one of our semi-regular happy hours as we celebrate the Digital Revolution (while also denouncing the scourge of centralizing, totalitarian Digital Jacobinism). All those interested in technology, the freedom of technology and technologies of freedom are welcome. We’ll be at the Science Club at 1136 19th St NW, Washington DC from [...]
Yesterday was a big day for any business, nonprofit organization, or fundraiser that relies on affiliate advertising that depend upon Internet advertising for important revenue and fundraising efforts: Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed the nexus tax and calls up Overstock.com to invite to reinstate their affiliates in California. As we’ve written previously, all sorts of organizations depend [...]
My friend Megan McArdle has a sharp post on the causes of the newspaper’s imminent demise: Journalism is not being brought low by excess supply of content; it’s being steadily eroded by insufficient demand for advertising pages. For most of history, most publications lost money, or at best broke even, on their subscription base, which [...]
I’ve been reading many critiques of Wired editor Chris Anderson’s new book, Free, after first reading Malcolm Gladwell’s review in The New Yorker. Gladwell’s piece is fantastic as it illuminates just how wrong Anderson’s central claim really is. Anderson writes that: In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay with laws [...]
Check out today’s Wall Street Journal editorial on the affiliate nexus tax that North Carolina is considering — aptly titled Tarheels vs. the Internet. This comes on the heels (pun intended) of news that Amazon will terminate its affiliates in North Carolina. It also talks about the tickets tax, which is blatantly in violation of [...]
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