“Boston College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts,” ReadWriteWeb
I don’t use iGoogle, so I’ve missed out on the theming goodness; Gmail is my workhorse. I’m thrilled they’re speading the love.
J. M. Keynes Paul Krugman says, it’s time to panic.
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
Who am I to argue with a noble laureate? With what army do I confront this soothsayer?
Only Eugen_von_Böhm-Bawerk, Ludwig Von Mises, F. A. Hayek, and Murray Rothbard.
Scroll to the bottom of the Mises.org Murray Rothbard audio archive and listen your way back up for a sound economics education.
Amazon content delivery network CloudFront released, via ReadWriteWeb.
As for the president-elect, he promises to change Washington. He will, by making matters worse. He will intensify rent-seeking by finding new ways — this will not be easy — to expand, even more than the current administration has, government’s influence on spreading the wealth around.
“Bipartisan Socialism,” George Wil
We at ReadWriteWeb are huge Basecamp fans. It raises the productivity of small, physically dispersed teams (like ours) to a level that enables new virtual companies to be be viable. Basecamp changes the traditional answer to the question: “can we operate virtually from around the world, or do we all need to live in the same place?” ReadWriteWeb, for example, lives on Basecamp; it is our office.
But there is one problem. Basecamp is browser native. I want mobile native. And ReadWriteWeb’s VP of Content Dev Marshall Kirkpatrick tweeted today that he wants a Basecamp AIR app. Either way, it’s clear that browser-only doesn’t cut it anymore for Basecamp.
“When The Browser Doesn’t Cut it: Basecamp’s Lack of Mobility,” ReadWriteWeb
It’s time to declare the end of adolescence. As a social institution, it’s been a failure. The proof is all around us: 19% of eighth graders, 36% of tenth graders, and 47% of twelfth graders say they have used illegal drugs, according to a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan. One of every four girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a recent study for the Centers for Disease Control. A methamphetamine epidemic among the young is destroying lives, families, and communities. And American students are learning at a frighteningly slower rate than Chinese and Indian students.
“Let’s End Adolescence,” Newt Gingrich
Google Flu Trends would actually be useful if it had rss or email alerts.