Category Archives: Economics

Apple Outsider – Hollywood Still Hates You

It bears repeat­ing, the vast major­ity of piracy is peo­ple just try­ing to get con­tent the eas­i­est way.

January 26, 2012 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge

The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for peo­ple to get dig­i­tal information/media/anything is just wrong.

January 16, 2012 – 11:25 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Copyright, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

O’Reilly Radar – The end of social

The more we share the less value each piece of infor­ma­tion has to the peo­ple (but not the sys­tems) that we share to.

December 11, 2011 – 2:13 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Culture, Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Corporations Getting New Tools for Calculating Emissions

I would be skep­ti­cal of any tool able to rea­son­ably esti­mate this in a mean­ing­ful way, just too many dif­fer­ences across the whole ecosys­tem of every prod­uct from the orig­i­nal ore being mined to man­u­fac­tur­ing to ship­ping to use by the end user.

October 3, 2011 – 10:14 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Fraser Speirs – A Supercomputer in Every Backpack

Same prob­lem I’ve been think­ing about for a long time, our edu­ca­tion sys­tem is built for the jobs of the past not the jobs of the future.

September 11, 2011 – 12:37 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

This American Life – When Patents Attack!

Not upset enough about patents, spend an hour and you’ll get even more upset.

August 2, 2011 – 2:09 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Economist – Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity

Yet another in a long line of arti­cles decry­ing the patent system.

August 1, 2011 – 11:48 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off