'Economics' Category
Lack of Scale
I saw a “lower-third” graphic on CNN yesterday afternoon that stuck in my craw:
Dow up 151 points,
Housing prices down 9%.
Now, I’m not going to complain about the fact the two are completely unrelated. And given the economic uncertainty, I wouldn’t even mention a correlation. But just what are we supposed to glean from that [...]Scattered Attention
The scattered attention in this case has been mine, as I have not been writing here as often as I’d like. That’s not to say I haven’t been busy, or haven’t been writing.
Most of the writing I’ve been doing has been short-form, either on Twitter or commenting on other people’s blogs. As my interests tend [...]Perverse Incentives
“Under the federal bailout plan, the same people who stole your underpants and brewed tea through them are demanding economic assistance because no one is thirsty.”
- Ike PigottFishing
“Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you’ll feed him for life.
Give a man a subsidy for fishing, and you’ll have the wrong suckers on the hook for eternity.”
- Ike PigottIt’s the connections, stupid.
A couple of days ago, I noted that the UK’s Guardian went full-feed with its RSS options. Essentially, it became the first newspaper to do more than send “syndicated teasers.”
We’ve gone from “advertiser-supported ink-on-pulp” to “advertiser-supported pixels-on-screen” to “where-are-the-ads-we-paid-for on a feed”?
Why would any company sever the connection from the ads to the audience? Well, [...]
