by Tom | Sep 23, 2009 | Business, Reading
I like the finale of this article: we shouldn’t think about micropayments for news as being fractional payment for stories. Given that, what should they be?
by Tom | Sep 23, 2009 | Business, Reading
Another semi-experiment shows that low-selling items are just that. Maybe it is the promise of the long tail that takes us to retailers where we then buy best-sellers galore.
by Tom | Sep 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
The new vetting and barring scheme brings unfortunate life to the old adage about children and animals. I’m against it mainly because it falls foul of the pointless screening argument: there are likely to be more false positives (people unfairly suspected of issues)...
by Tom | Sep 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Fascinating article exploring levels of cooperation in different animals. In summary, tolerance (e.g. lack of aggression towards humans by wolves) can lead to cooperative behaviour. Chimpanzees, though they know to deceive us (and each other) never really learn that...
by Tom | Sep 14, 2009 | Personal
First blog since our return from a splendid loop of mid-California (San Francisco, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, Sequoia National Park, Yosemite, San Francisco). We managed to avoid wild fires, bears, rattlesnakes, rock falls en route, which was very lucky for us. On the...
