Archive for May, 2006
Chasing inflation backwards
So the latest CPI numbers came out today, followed closely by chicken little and all her friends running around screaming “inflation!!” Looks like energy costs may be, in fact, starting to creep into our price experience. What doesn’t make sense to me, a degreed armchair economist, is just why exactly a federal reserve would chase [...]
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While everyone has been going bananas over Web 2.0 (is it a bubble? is it a technology? is it a mindset?), a rather important suite of alterations to national and international intellectual property law have emerged. In this new conception of intellectual property, IP 2.0, ideas in physical form take on a nature far more [...]
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Google finally launched a search terms interface whereby you can home in on the popularity of the various subjects for which we search, with access to this search data over time. I figured it would be interesting to look into those ideals, imaginations and even simple interests to see which we hold the most dear. [...]
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I am always a bit stunned when I hear people enter into a tirade on the subject of how anti-social the internet is. I have to wonder if these people have every really gone anywhere online, or if they simply confuse the WWW for the internet. More likely, they consider telephone conversations as social, but [...]
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The BBConline highlights an excellent example of the evolving, seamless transition between “virtual” and “real” economies. Cash station cards that allow players to convert games doallars to real dollars. There is a part of me that believes that virtual worlds really are a consequent and cause of a widespread acceptance of modern-postmodern questions concerning the [...]
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