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Tag Archives: Memory
Truth, rumors, and the markets
The Steve-Jobs-is-dead rumor that resulted in a 9% knock of Apple’s stock wasn’t started by anyone with financial interests in the outcome, but instead a teenager. So the SEC supposedly can’t prosecute. Related, the New York Times has a good … Continue reading
The new science of friendonomics
I debated blogging this article, and decided I loved it too much not to give it a nod. Scott Brown writes a humorous and insightful piece in Wired on the economics of friendship in the Facebook era. He has several … Continue reading
A really bad advertising platform
Facebook keeps giving me reasons to criticize, and I just can’t help myself. The weight loss ads are getting old, and despite the negative attention bloggers, including one entrepreneurial Teresa Centric, and -gasp!- even the MSM have paid these horrendous … Continue reading
Empowering rumors
Last Friday CNN’s citizen journalism arm, iReport.com, hosted a story about Steve Jobs being dead. Shares in Apple fell 9% before the company issued any denial of the rumor, a loss of $9 billion in shareholder value. The stock eventually … Continue reading
Hello again, Buggles!
Finally, up and running. Earlier tonight I accidentally deleted my beta-blog at Blogger, and I imagine it’s gone for good now. I sent a request to Blogger help that it be restored, but that is like sending a resume or … Continue reading