As pretty much everyone predicted, handling the National Debt by reducing funding to the States has just moved the problem not solved it. (more)

Ingemar Andreassonon Lean Product Development Flow - Don Reinertsen (more)

Many have wondered whether the Revolts Of 2011 will spread to China. (more)

*But while New Urbanism is making strides at the level of the Neighborhood, we still spend most of our time at home, which today means seeing no one other than our nuclear family. How could we widen that circle just a bit? Not a ‘60s Commune (“pass the brown rice, comrade, and don’t forget your shift cleaning the toilet ”), but good neighbors with whom we share more than a property line. (more)

server-side RssAggregator/Portal (more)

The Windows Operating System. (more)

GE is the fresh poster-child over many BigCo-s not paying any Corporate Income Tax. (more)

author, How To Run The World (more)

Larry Page, returning as CEO, has just finished a major ReOrg, shifting from a horizontal/matrix org to a more vertical structure to give separate business units more autonomy. (Duh.) (more)

The Google Book Search Settlement was rejected by Judge Denny Chin.

My Nexus One's battery life has gotten much worse since the last Android update. (more)

Fred Wilson notes the importance of (user-) Curation in large-scale WebApp-s, esp those with lots of User GeneratedContent. Often, you start with manual curation by the app-staff, then some sort of most-popular list, then eventually you go-human again by letting the users do distributed curation. Then you need to curate the User Generated Meta Data! Then jump to Collaborative Filtering!

Just did my first online-delivery Sheet Music purchse. Used MusicNotes site, installing their printing plugin into Saf Ari since it wouldn't work in Google Chrome. (A former teacher used to give us lots of his arrangements in Finale Notepad.)

page was renamed from z2011-03-24-StoneReturnToTwitter (more)

For AEP purposes, taking a look at Dance Event Calendar-s (esp those that scrape ICal or have an API to publish to).

Seth Godin on Pricing vs value in Content (Business Models For Information). People walking out of the afternoon bargain matinee at the movies don't cut the film any slack because it was half price. Critics piling on to a music video on YouTube never mention the fact that Hey it was free. There is no thrift store for content. Sure, we can get an old movie for ninety-nine cents, but if we hate it, it doesn't matter how cheap it was. If we're going to spend time, apparently, it better be perfect, the best there ever was, regardless of price... In fact, I do think it's probably true that a low price increases the negative feedback. That's because a low price exposes the work to individuals that might not be raving fans. Free is a valid marketing strategy. In fact it's almost impossible for an idea to have mass impact without some sort of free (TV, radio, webpages, online videos... they're all free). At the same time, it's not clear to me that cheaper content outperforms expensive in many areas... Free gets you mass. Free, though, isn't always the price that will help you achieve your goals.

Brad De Long expects a continuing slowness to recovery from the Credit Crisis 2008. The downturn was not caused by a liquidity squeeze. The Federal Reserve cannot wave is wand and return asset prices to their pre-downturn configuration. The entrepreneurial problems of recovery are much more complex: not to recall what it used to be profitable to produce but rather to figure out what new things it will be profitable to produce in the future... As long as aggregate demand remains low, we cannot even tell when pieces are right-side-up. New investments, lines of business, and worker-firm matches that would be highly productive and profitable if capacity utilization and unemployment were at their normal levels are unprofitable now. We do need not just demand recovery but structural adjustment. But the market cannot do demand recovery rapidly by itself. And it cannot do structural adjustment at all until demand recovery is well under way. (He also uses the employment-population ratio as the yardstick of recovery, instead of standard UnEmployment numbers.)

Japan had a huge Earth Quake, resulting in a Tsunami on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. (more)

Phil Jones has created OptiMaes, a library of Python code for testing ideas (Simulation) about alternative Economics models, etc. Documented in a Wiki. (more)

Interface Design for the Experience Economy? (more)