The World Financial Review has published a 'sort of' excerpt from Information Wants to be Shared. It may interest readers of this blog.
Position at Sloan Foundation
The Sloan Foundation is looking for a Program Associate, Economics. It is a position that will likely interest readers of this blog or their students. Here is the description. Roles and Responsibilities: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation seeks a very bright, highly motivated, and well-organized individual for the position of Program Associate in Economics starting in …
Facebook's vision becomes clearer
Yesterday, Facebook announced "Graph Search." It's an engineering name that is accurate and communicates nothing to the general public. Nonetheless, the engineering face stops with the name as the feature itself is designed with humans in mind. Facebook's own introduction describes graph search nicely. It is basically a search engine for social networks -- in …
Curated educational content
There is much discussion about online education but, for the most part, the incursions online have been seen as providing bundled, self-generated content in much the same way as University content is provided now. An exception is Marginal Revolution University that is allowing contributions from many academics. This week two other endeavours were brought to …
A speculative post about information technology and mass shootings
Disclaimer: this post is very, very speculative and may raise lots of potentially poor ideas. I am writing it because I think that there may be a role for information technology in certain specific instances and wanted to raise for open discussion. I am no expert in pretty much anything here so feel free to …
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What I want: better email/task management
Email management is the same as managing as task management. I became convinced by this when I first saw the Kickstarter vision from Mailpilot. This basically described what I was doing, so when MailPilot launched into Public Beta, I paid $60 to subscribe for a year. It is in Beta so doesn't quite look like …
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A quick note on Mathematica 9
Wolfram released Mathematica 9 yesterday. It doesn't take everyone's fancy but to a hack programmer like myself it is a revolution. I've been using Mathematica for 20 years and it is essential to my research. But I do not really know how to use Mathematica. That requires spending the time to learn programming syntax and …
What an academic article of the future should look like
There is much discussion these days about the future of scholarly publishing. Much of this surrounds the value of traditional publishers. When challenged those publishers point to the value and potential value they create. Here is Elsevier responding to a recent boycott led by mathematician Tim Gowers: And we invest a lot in infrastructure, the …
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Selling an idea: Onion Style
Now, you might think this is all in jest but, actually, it is pretty close to something else we have already discussed on this blog: Scott Adams' plan to see if he can sell an idea. If you recall, Dilbert creator, Scott Adams actually does not believe it is possible to sell an idea (unlike …
Interesting interview with Tim O'Reilly
This is just a pointer to an interesting interview with Tim O'Reilly conducted by Edge. It related to the Clothesline Paradox previously discussed here by Shane Greenstein. Just a taste: But what's really interesting, when I dug into YouTube, is that it turns out that the monetary economy there is about to explode. It is …
Digitopoly 