Leaders, Media, Technology
The New News – Google Edition
Apparently, as part of their greater mission to save the world and make billions in the process, Google has taken it upon itself to save Journalism and Newspapers. At least, that’s the contention of this James Fallows cover story for the Atlantic this month. This may seem odd since people like Rupert Murdock have been blasting [...]
Leaders, Media, Technology
Rupert Murdock Quits
It official Rupert Murdock is setting his British Flagship papers of Record the Times and The Sunday Times behind an internet paywall. He announced this last summer, and by June it will be a reality. What’s interesting is that there is no attempt to adopt the price point to the audience or the papers content. [...]
Leaders, Politics
Top 10 Most Influential Books
I haven’t been able to write very much in the past few months because my life has been quite topsy-turvy. (It’s now fully on the upside!) Lots of things have happened both in the media world (Sun Times and NYT going pay wall, Time Warner’s ABC blackout) and in the political world (Health Care Passed?!?! [...]
Economics, Leaders, Politics
Fix the Problem or Die Trying
Jonathan Rauch has a piece up in the National Journal in which he, reluctantly, endorses the current Senate Health Care Reform Bill. Clive Crook and Andrew Sullivan both concur, but it’s Rauch who makes the best argument, and he makes it from the Deficit and Cost perspective: Although long-term budget projections are squishy, the Congressional [...]
Economics, Leaders, Media
Walling The New Tork Times into a Corner
It looks the NYT’s wants to raise a pay-wall starting in 2011. Borrowing from the FT-model, the NYT will allow lite-users the ability to read a number of articles a week/month for free, and then ask for payment beyond that. As you may know, I am skeptical that this will work. First and foremost, as many [...]
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Economics, Media, Technology
Free – A New Model for Publishing
Posted on 18 August 2009
I polished off Chris Anderson’s, Editor of Wired Magazine, new book Free the other week. Releasing a book in the current media climate, with papers folding everyday and magazines (including Wired) suffering from an ad drought, arguing that everything should be ‘free-er’ still is heresy. To be sure, it was a good read, [...] Continue Reading
Economics, Politics
My Problem with Libertarianism, Ctd
Posted on 13 January 2010
Building off my earlier post, William D. Eggers & John O’Leary have a piece up at Reason’s Hit-n-Run Blog that really lays out where I think Libertarianism has been hurt by the type of arguments that they make: 1. Bad government leads to bigger, badder government. Today, only 23 percent of Americans trust government to do [...] Continue Reading
Economics, Politics
My Problem with Libertarianism
Posted on 08 January 2010
As with most people, my introduction to libertarian thought began with Ayn Rand. But unlike many people it didn’t end there either. Rand’s books have always been semi-popular; ranking in the lower triple digits on Amazon and constantly in print. But with the rise of the Tea Party Movement, her books are back in center [...] Continue Reading
Economics
Policy v. Politics: Inside the Economic Crisis and its Response
Posted on 05 October 2009
There is a nice profile of Larry Summers and the rest of the Obama Economic crew in the New Yorker by Ryan Lizza, while its long and buttery in sections, the interplay between Obama’s economic advisors was fascinating in showing how the various policies were shaped, especially the stimulus, the Public-Private-Partnership, and the auto bailout. [...] Continue Reading
Wine & Beer
Finger Laken’ Good: Fall ‘09 Wine Picks
Posted on 30 September 2009
Petra and I were up in the Finger Lakes the other weekend, and boy-o-boy did we find some treats! IMHO Lake Seneca is home to the best wine makers in the country, and all of the following wines are from the along the western side of the lake. View Finger Lake Wine in a larger map Starting at [...] Continue Reading
Politics
Kids + Sex = Prison
Posted on 22 September 2009
I saw this on Andrew Sullivan, who got it from Radley Balko; it’s something I have been trying to point out and argue for a long time, but this graph says it all quite succinctly: [Sex crime] laws are not so much protecting children from predators as they are turning them into predators. Look at this [...] Continue Reading
Economics
Power to the People – A Better Way to Regulate the Free Market
Posted on 16 September 2009
Elliot Spitzer, as the New York State Attorney General gained a lot of enemies by taking on a number of Wall Street Titans, and dragging them to earth. (Some say these enemies are the ones who first leaked his scandal) For this he was vilified by many libertarians and other pro-business/free market types. While I [...] Continue Reading
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