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Economics — Media — Technology

This Economist article asks why so many economists blog for free when they could be making money. Like millions of others, economists from circles of academia and public policy spend hours each day writing for nothing. The concept seems at odds with the notion of economists as intellectual instruments trained in the maximisation of utility […]

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Economics

Economics everywhere — Piers Parry-Crooke — BBC - The Editors

There is a post on the BBC’s Editors blog pointing out Evan Davies’ report on how the recent hot weather has been affecting the economy in so many different ways. Having been working inside a boiling shop for the past few weeks in this extreme weather, I’ve seen that in action. Even a Saturday was pretty dead. The post ends by tackling the misconception that economics is just all about money issues, which I was recently trying to explain to a sceptical colleague.

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Information architecture — Media — Technology — User experience

Surveying search across British online newspapers — Martin Belam — currybetdotnet

Currybet has a series of posts reviewing the search features of newspapers’ websites. This post summarises the results. He rates The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail most highly. I would agree with the latter two, although the last time I tried to search TimesOnline it was a complete nightmare.

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Media — Technology

Some parts of the blogosphere are like a completely different world. The bits that are all geared around marketing and business are especially odd. I will come back to that in a future post. In the meantime though, here is a post on a blog called Marketing Profs Daily Fix (via Weblog Tools Collection). Why […]

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Web

I’m not taking part in the Naked Day thingy, although it is quite interesting. If you’re really eager to see what this place looks like without any clothes on, Firefox users can just go into View > Page Style > No Style. As far as I’m aware that does the same thing. At least if […]

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Information architecture — Technology

There is an interesting post at canspice.org about tagging (not to be confused with the tagging that you get with memes). Tagging already has a couple of well-known problems. One of the major ones is the confusion over whether you should use singular or plural. Flickr cleverly bypassed the other problem — words such as […]