From an article in the Economist on Facebook’s plan to cash in on word-of-mouth advertising:
Yet another problem, says Paul Martino, an entrepreneur who launched Tribe, an early social network, is that the interpersonal connections (called the “social graph”) on such networks are also of low quality. Because few people dare to dump
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You all remember our discussion from a few days ago about people not being hired—or even being fired—for smoking. I’d posed the question:
What about the obese? Is banning the hiring of overweight people–who, like smokers, could theoretically control their conditions–next?
So I was flipping channels last night and happened upon …
The National Review‘s Ramesh Ponnuru joins the ranks of Time opinion columnists in the current issue. Curious Capitalist commenter Chuck really hated his first effort, so I just went and read it (sorry, been on the road). First, here’s Chuck’s take:
His thesis is that our healthcare is expensive because it is free, and to fix it we have
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Yes, according to a fascinating new study by economist Caitlin Knowles, as described in Slate.
She, with her students as research assistants, staked out eight coffee shops in the Boston area and watched how long it took men and women to be served. Her conclusion: Men get their coffee 20 seconds earlier than do women.
I know, I know: …
Members of a fan website have ponied up £700,000 to buy the English minor league soccer team Ebbsfleet United. Fan takeovers aren’t unheard of in England; what’s new here is that fan message board chatter will now supposedly converted into actual coaching decisions. “Every MyFootballClub member will have an equal say in team selection, …
My colleague over at Tuned In is supposed to be on vacation. But he has apparently slapped together some timed posts to appear in his absence, making the rest of us bloggers who mean to slack off on upcoming holidays look very, very bad. So I hereby shall steal his thunder by blogging on his beat about the TV writers’ strike.
If I lived …
Even while on occasion contributing to it, I’ve been a little dubious of the Jamie-Dimon-steers-JPMorgan-safely-through-the-mortgage-debacle story line that has been emerging in recent weeks. I mean, there have got to be lots more mortgage-related losses coming at every big bank, right? Even the Great Dimon can’t avert that. But on the …
Guess I should have mentioned this earlier: I’ve been on the road since Thursday, which is why I haven’t been posting much. The regular Curious Capitalist commenter known as “Dad” has a big birthday this month (85!), plus the newest of his grandchildren (who has yet to comment on this blog) is turning 1, so we had a big family hoedown. I …
I think of this as I read a front-page story in today’s New York Times about Bonnie Brown, a staff masseuse at Google who is now a multimillionaire. It’s the classic cubicle-to-riches story: worker is among the first to sign on at unknown Internet start-up. Internet start-up grows up and becomes massive, universe-changing brand. Worker …
Surely your company has gone smoke-free by now. If you’re one of the nicotine-stained masses, you’re braving the November chill to get your fix outside, like an animal. (Why is it that smokers always head out coat-less, no matter what the weather?) Only at home can you puff away to your blackening lungs’ abandon.
Get ready to give up …
My new column (actually, it’s laid out in the magazine as a two-page article, but it’s really more like a column) is online and in the issue of Time with Hillary on the cover. It begins:
This story features a man named Prince, an actual (Saudi) prince, a billionaire financial legend, a former Treasury Secretary and a British knight with
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News flash: working moms don’t quit for no reason.
I write this in the spirit of an Onion headline Gerry just sent me:
Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity
According to new analysis by sociologist Pamela Stone appearing in the fall issue of Contexts magazine,
Professional women aren’t quitting their careers solely
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