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Adam Smith on the China tragedy (by Russell Roberts)
via Cafe Hayek by Russell Roberts on May 13, 2008
... who had no sort of connexion with that part of the world, would be affected upon receiving intelligence of this dreadful calamity. He would, I imagine, first of all, express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people, he would make many melancholy reflections upon the precariousness of human life, and the vanity of all the labours of man, which could thus be ...
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Barack Obama's economic advisors
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on February 25, 2008
Here is the story, by Noam Scheiber of TNR, hat tip to Greg Mankiw. Excerpt:Like Bill Clinton in 1992, Obama's campaign boasts a cadre of credentialed achievers. Intellectually, however, the Obamanauts couldn't be more different. Clinton delighted in surrounding himself with big-think public intellectuals--like economics commentator Robert Reich and political philosopher Bill Galston....
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The continuing growth of Twitter
via Corante Marketing Hub by neville@nevillehobson.com (Neville Hobson) on February 20, 2008
... ‘micro blogging tool.’ My perception of Twitter has evolved.The US is the leading country, no surprise there, with 40%. The #2 did surprise me - Japan at 39%. Then follows Spain at #3 with 11%, the UK at #4 with 10% and the others as you see in the chart.It’s good to know this but what does it really mean if you want to know some actual numbers? How many Twitter users are there ar...
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Social News: Can the Digg/Mixx/Buzz Model Hold Up Against FriendFeed and Sphinn?
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on February 25, 2008
The social news space is developing at a mind-boggling pace. Just in the last 48 hours Yahoo! launched its new site Buzz, the increasingly mainstream site Mixx announced more funding and Digg held its first ever town hall meeting. Meanwhile a screenshot of the soon to be aggregated service Tumblr has been leaked, my email inbox is filling up with friend notifications from the $5 million richer...
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New Study: SSRI Antidepressants 'Clinically Insignificant' For Most People
via PsyBlog by Jeremy (PsyBlog author) on February 25, 2008
A new study published today is sure to set off another storm in the ongoing debate about the widespread prescription of antidepressants. Professor Irving Kirsch at the University of Hull and colleagues in the US and Canada report that new generation 'SSRI' antidepressants like Prozac or Seroxat mostly fall, "below the recommended criteria for clinical significance" (Kirsch et al. 2008)....
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Calling up bloggers up with GrandCentral - but how many bloggers will pickup the phone?
via Smart Mobs by Marshall Sponder on February 25, 2008
Google added Voice over IP Interface to it’s Blogger platform using GrandCentral, as reported in Marketing Pilgrim in a post titled Call a Blogger with GrandCentral.“…Google bought the company last July and it’s been in private beta since. However, if you want to try the service now, you can get an account without an invitation. All you need is a Blogger account.”“…Have you ever...
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Announcing the Grand Prize Winners for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest
via Google Open Source Blog by Leslie Hawthorn on February 11, 2008
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamWhen we announced GHOP, we were excited to perform an experiment to see how many secondary schoolers would be interested in spending a few weeks contributing to open source development. We're pleased to say that the results far exceeded our expectations - over 350 students worldwide came together to complete nearly 1,000 tasks to help improve open source. ...
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Botanicalls Twitter DIY
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Brady Forrest on February 26, 2008
By Brady ForrestBotanicalls, the project that lets your plants let you know when they need water (Radar post), has expanded beyond their Asterisk-based voice system. Now you can learn how your plants are doing with a DIY kit that lets them Twitter you. The system uses Arduino, the open-source board featured in Making Things Talk. The instructions they've included are very detailed; this looks...
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Why not increase this penalty?
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on February 25, 2008
... does a poor job at enforcing the health insurance contract.You might hold a theory that the government judiciary will malfunction in such a way but a health care government bureaucracy would not make mistakes of comparable importance.I do not hold such a theory. When it comes to health care reform, I would like to start with the enforcement of contracts based on rational and just penalties.
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