by Tom | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Quick check of Ping.fm to ensure that the plugin is setup correctly. I think this could be a neat way of posting to multiple online places using my blog as the driver. This keeps all my information mine and means I shouldn´t have to worry about a new plugin for...
by Tom | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Great set of video lectures from a wide range of institutions. Question: can you get more information in to your head this way or through reading? I´m not sure yet, but I´d love to have had this when I was studying.
by Tom | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
As I have often stated, I´d pay a steady $10-20 each month for (a limited number of tracks of) real music that I could own, if only someone would offer it to me. However, in the meantime, I buy albums I wouldn´t buy the whole of via the Russians. This...
by Tom | Apr 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Taleb on what should happen next. As John Robb says, none of these will occur. He also has an interesting chart from the Economist suggesting that the value extracted from labour over the last thirty years has gone somewhere other than to the labourers. Showing the...
by Tom | Apr 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
I know I’m not quite alone when it comes to this, but: We need to be more transparent about salaries. People are always uncomfortable when I mention earning details (maybe because I’m doing OK and it comes out as arrogant / threatening; it isn’t...
by Tom | Mar 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
At least at the volume end, I can see Nielsen´s point that giving first chapters away for free will force authors to ensure that you are reasonably gripped by the end of the first chapter. What it would have done for me and 2666 is, sadly, unknowable. It was one...
