Are there two types of feedback for ads, click-through and click-off?
I’ve seen two electronic ads today I was happy to “reject”: one for a conspiracy video and the other for Meg Whitman. In the case of the forme...
Category: business
The promise of networked suburbs and shuttering college dropout factories.
Urban Legends: The hipper the city, the mantra goes, the richer and more successful it will be — and a number of declining American industrial hubs have t...
Falsehoods being traded as facts, “irrespective of their validity.”
The problem with so much journalism: Mr. Loeb’s views, irrespective of their validity, point to a bigger problem for the economy: If business leaders have a suc...
All roads lead through Washington D.C., which is currently fucked.
Historic Voter Volatility in This Year of Fear, WSJ: Today’s dark public mood appears to be the culmination of a long stretch of national anxiety encompas...
Who runs Trader Joe’s?
Fascinating profile of two German brothers, billionaires, and their global discount retail empire which includes Trader Joe’s.
Silvio, the renewable energy rich playboys of Portugal await your electric Ferraris.
The NYT: Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal’s grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago. Land-based ...
Will computers in 2050 finally look like the ones we imagined in the 1950s?
A user on MetaFilter has argued that a well designed item is that which lasts a long time – or, perhaps, an item which the owner values for a long time. Here...
Omni. Meaning lots of links and not that magazine with the cool covers from yesteryear. Sadly.
The Browser is my favorite site of the moment. The below excerpts are taken mostly from it. · “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it ...
Chinese Barbizon
Peter Hessler‘s essay “Chinese Barbizon” in the The New Yorker is fantastic: gentle characterizations, arresting ideas, fascinating details. It dovetails ...