March 11, 2009
GOOD » Making Sense of the Financial Mess» - We tried to make sense of the financial mess we’re in. As you can see, we couldn’t come up with anything satisfying, so we want your help. We’re offering $500 to the best global finance infographic we receive, as judged by a ...
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March 06, 2009
The news has been consistently full of disheartening records of ‘lowest since’ and ‘highest since’ for quite a while. Unemployment is still rising if not accelerating.  12% of all homes with mortgages are either in default, delinquent, or foreclosure. Nearly every econ...
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Bob Sutton: The Enron Code of Ethics: Something Every Boss Should Read - My hypothesis is that the longer a code of ethics in a company, the more likely they are too be sleazeballs. As I've heard my father-in-law say many times, when people talk about ethics and morals more than seems necessary,...
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March 03, 2009
Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discriminatio...
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February 26, 2009
Pew Research Center: Social Segregation - A 2007 Pew Research survey found that while a large majority of Americans say they have friends of a different race, pluralities of whites (45%), blacks (35%) and Hispanics (39%) say they have "just a few" friends of a different race. About a third...
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February 25, 2009
Chicago Governor Rod Blageovich had a statement that summed up his view of transactional politics - “Ubi Est Mea” - which translates to “Where’s mine?” Basically, he required a taste of everything he had his hands in. This morning, your news will include countless stori...
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February 24, 2009
You’ve undoubtedly seen the Network-meets-Wall Street tirade of the Chicago Tea Party. Click here to view the embedded video. Also note that while Rich Santelli and his few brave band of brothers shout STOP! from athwart the floor of the stock exchange, cursing Obama’s spending and housi...
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February 22, 2009
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I’ve been giving some thought as to designing mobile and Facebook applications. It should be plainly clear that mobile is the next great frontier. In reviewing what is popular in the Facebook space, and in particular w...
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February 20, 2009
Porno Flowchart - ROFLs Pinch Media Data Shows The Average Shelf Life Of An iPhone App Is Less Than 30 Days - Free apps tend to be run 6.6 times more often than paid apps, but even with that increased usage, it is not enough to make more money. Yardley offers some quick math. The average paid app re...
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February 18, 2009
The news broke yesterday about some pretty offensive changes to the Facebook TOS (Terms of Service). This is the paragraph that lead to the uproar, most notably covered by the Consumerist: You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license...
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