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Technology

I was explaining how, sitting here today, it is difficult to see why anyone would want to sign up to a social network that isn’t Facebook. While MySpace used to be the market leader, it was always far too annoying and buggy to remain on the radar for long. Every time I visit MySpace I just get […]

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Technology

I have some thoughts on Facebook, which seems to have become a phenomenon over the past couple of months. Two or three months back it seemed to reach a tipping point. It is now no longer the preserve or procrastinating students. Now Facebook seems to have made itself the social network to be on for […]

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Technology

I have been thinking a little bit about RSS recently (it’s the sort of exciting life I have). For whatever reason, I don’t seem to have as much spare time as I used to. Or at least, I don’t have as much time to read blogs as I once did. That’s what it feels like […]

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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 […]