Monthly Archives: March 2009

Good summary at Forbes of a startup, Dolores Labs, that rates Amazon’s “turkers” or, put another way, low-cost rote laborers, in order to help companies ensure high-quality Turk labor. I wonder what this heralds for the future of labor. Amazon … Continue reading →

I’m at home in bed with a cough. A persistent, 4-week-old cough, the solution to which my doctor thinks is a humidifier (he  may be right, since I have no other symptoms of illness). It’s exhausting to cough all day … Continue reading →

I used to love bookstores. Really love them. I could spend hours, literally, wandering the aisles of the Harvard COOP or Blackwell’s in Oxford. Today I needed a couple books sort-of-immediately, so I stopped at Barnes & Noble on my … Continue reading →