There’s an interesting conversation over at the Boston Globe website. Even after Massachusetts dropped the maintenance fees on time-saving Fast Lane transponders, one-third of tollpayers still go to the booth to hand over payment in person. Cars with the transponders zip along past tolls, while those without wait in line gathering …
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Free: The New Business Model
Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a new book out that’s getting mucho attention: Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Anderson argues that in the digital age, more and more businesses should and will offer their goods completely for free (to the delight of cheapskates everywhere). Free is not gimmick to entice customers to try …
Who is Screwed the Worst?
Very few workers feel safe nowadays. If they haven’t been laid off, they know they could be let go at any moment. Or perhaps they’ll have to accept mandatory furloughs, or their benefits will be slashed. Health benefits, vacation time, even free beer allotments (no joke) are being taken away. Retirements are being postponed. Recent grads …
