Year: 2004

  • 'The Long Tail' (book and the blog)

    Quoting from The Long Tail the book and the blog: Chris Anderson is writing a book about The Long Tail which started as one of my favorite articles that he wrote for Wired. He has also started a blog about the Long Tail. The original article is online at Wired.

  • Do Economists Indulge in Parenthetical Witticisms?

    Thursday 12/16/2004 ———————————————————– RELEASE: In October, Czech retail sales continued to follow the trend of the preceding months and increased…1.1% on a seasonally adjusted month-to-month basis. On a year-ago basis, retail sales advanced 1.7% (not seasonally adjusted). DKo: A full-year seasonal adjustment? It must make sense somehow, but it does sound funny. Economists don’t indulge…

  • Social book recommendations

    Books We Like is trying to build a community of book-recommenders, and offers price-comparison shopping for recommended books. This is a good step in the direction of collabortive review communities. I often want to write about a book I’m reading on my blog but I’m frustrated by the impoverished data structure (cue Marc Canter, et…

  • Exley praises his shortcomings

    Christian posted a long quote from the Berkman School living-web wonkfest last week. At that, Kerry online honcho Zach Exley told everyone that Kerry-Edwards focused too much on means and not enough on ends: The Democrats had no shortage of goatee-chinned web designers, but they were trounced by the Republicans’ superior top-down organization. “The difference…

  • Joi finds the edge of Orkut

    Joi Ito fills up his Orkut dance card, wonders what happens after “game over” (The edge of Orkut): I just got the following message on Orkut. Limit reached for number of friends You have 1024 friends. You can only have up to 1000 friends. Before you can add more friends, you need to remove friends.…

  • Chilling times

    According to an article on MSNBC.com, 44% of Americans “believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim-Americans.” Further: The survey showed that 27 percent of respondents supported requiring all Muslim-Americans to register where they lived with the federal government. Twenty-two percent favored racial profiling to identify potential terrorist threats. And 29 percent…