Financial Meltdown: Time for a Holiday From Progressive Politics?
Mar 24, 11:44 AM by Eric Allen
Truthout has an interesting story on how progressives should be dealing with the ongoing financial meltdown. I am most definitely not an economist, but from my perspective down here in reality (at least I think it’s real), it seems that the government could easily take steps to protect us small guys while letting the big guys suffer from their own mistakes. If we continue to privatize profit and publicize loss, this cycle of the rich siphoning money off of the rest of us will continue, most likely at an even greater rate.
TipJoy.com
Feb 12, 01:18 PM by Eric Allen
I was reading Hacker News this afternoon and stumbled across an announcement for the launch of TipJoy. People have been talking about micropayments and how to monetize blogs for quite some time now, and the only answers I’ve seen so far are PayPal and advertisements. I don’t particularly care about making money from this blog, but TipJoy is so easy to add I figure, why not? So from here on out every article will have a “Tip This” button below it. If you like the article and feel like tipping me for it, just click the button! You are under no obligation to pay said tip (but you can if you want to), but at least it gives me feedback about what articles are good and gives everybody a warm fuzzy feeling.
These guys are a Y Combinator startup, so I have a special place in my heart for the company regardless of the product. I’d like to see this model succeed, and I’d love to see a YC startup make it happen. Kudos to Abby and Ivan!
The Dutch are at it again!
Nov 1, 05:10 AM by Eric Allen
I want this car!
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Power Laws in social networks
Oct 30, 04:39 PM by Eric Allen
I was surfing Slashdot this evening and came across a link in a comment to a very cool article about Power Laws. In essence, social networks have a tendency to follow power laws instead of the bell curves we’re used to. This means that the top few blogs, or newsgroups, or anything else where there are many options and freedom to choose will end up getting the vast majority of the traffic. Interesting.
