Paul Kedrosky points to the Financial Times’ list of six business books of the year. (Leave it to the Europeans to decide to end the year early.) I’ve read and enjoyed 3 of the 6 (The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman; The Search by John Battelle; and Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner). I can’t speak about the others since I haven’t read them.
And if I haven’t mentioned it in a previous post, I love the name of Paul’s blog ("Infectious Greed").
I’m going to start adding a digest of links to interesting articles and blog posts. These are things that don’t rise to the level of a full individual post, but which many of you may find interesting and informative nonetheless. Without further ado, here’s the first installment: Outsell Now: A $358 Billion Information Industry by…
A new news aggregator is launching Inform.com, and it does so with a wet kiss from the New York Times’ Bob Tedeschi today. It has a pretty slick layout, though as others have pointed out, it doesn’t appear to add that much to the current marketplace. It’s basically just like Google News only with a…
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The Center for Media Research said in their email briefing today that there’s evidence that more young people are interested in Social Security in the wake of the ongoing debate over how to strengthen the system for the future. CMR wrote: President Bush’s campaign for social security reform has moved the debate to center stage….
MeetUp.com came to fame because of the Howard Dean campaign. Despite inroads by conservative groups like Townhall.com which has registered 24,000+ activists through the site, most of the top 15 political groups listed on the site are left-leaning. In fact, only 3 right of center groups appear on that list. MeetUp suffers from the public…
OPML Experiment – Version 2.0 (tags: Aggregation innovation)