Dylan Matthews, guesting at Ezra’s place, provides this handy dandy chart to track Jim Cramer’s predictions on the Dow: He concludes, Actually, I’ll give Cramer some props. With the small exceptions of Boeing, GM, and IBM, the market tends to do the reverse of what he anticipates. ...

It’s that time again folks. It’s time to write a headline that if someone doesn’t look beyond the statement it may seem a little odd or maybe even shocking. Of course since we are concerned with Internet marketing here this is actually a story with a pleasant ending. The findings a...

“Freedom of Worship” from The Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petit...

In the age of Wikinomics, one of the things that frustrates me most about being an avid sports fan is that it is still very difficult for fans to have any direct say in what their favourite players and teams do on, and off, the playing surface (i.e. who plays? who stays? who goes?) As I watched t...

For most of the last year there’s been one major point in relation to wikinomics that I’ve been trying to make more than any other - that while it’s often seen as synonymous with the “wisdom of crowds“, more often than not wikinomics-enabled strategies focus on finding ...

I read the NYTimes every day, and I notice that Thomas Friedman has been a lot less soapboxy lately, since globalization and the global economy went to hell, and the flatness of his world has made it impossible to keep......

A couple recent items caught my eye with regard to the issue of employee adoption of social software. In Reversing the Enterprise 2.0 Pricing Model, Julien le Nestour argues that pricing per user for social software should increase as more employees use it, because the network effects of higher part...

Apparently, it's time to roll up the carpet and go home. America as we know it is doomed and we need to start thinking small. So says Jack Cafferty at least: The interest on the national debt will approach $500 billion a year this year or next. Our country is sinking into the quicksand of insolvency...

BUMPED: Please scroll down and check the comments section for Oscar 2009 Night Live-Chatting. Regrettably, Twitter is out, but I will be here and possibly over at Althouse to live comment. I am extremely annoyed that the Oscar winners have possibly been leaked, since usually I would tell you my pred...

A: Okay, so I haven't seen it. But it is almost certainly the worst Best Picture nominee in the history of the Tomatometer. Harvey Weinstein loves my Hitler 2.0 plan, because aside from saving the economy it would give him lots of new material for movies he guilts/blackmails/waterboards everyon...