Category Archives: Economics

From Vladimir’s Blog

By Shana | Published: August 28, 2009
Image by ulterior epicure via Flickr So this was a comment I posted on Vladimir’s, a very nice Young Man’s blog, about the fragmentation of the food industry. I was thinking about it recently anyway because right before my younger and only Brother had gone to college*, my only living grandparent had taken us out [...]
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Someone asked me about Second Life

By Shana | Published: August 16, 2009
Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual [...]
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Smartphone Tipoffs on the Street

By Shana | Published: August 3, 2009
Image by runnx via Flickr Currently on the Web, there is a lot of discussion about phones, particularly smartphones. I decided, in honor of this discussion, to do the following today: Go up to a few people and start chatting them up about their phones (particularly if they had a smartphone) and try to count [...]
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The New New Business of News

By Shana | Published: August 2, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife While in some previous posts, there have been discussions of the theoretical maximum viewership of news-content, as well as the history of Newspaper, it is now time to discuss what does all of this mean in a practical sense. This is the third major age of newspapers, but not [...]
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A Precursory Look at Reed’s Law

By Shana | Published: July 28, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife So for the past few days, on Fred Wilson‘s blog, there have been comment after comment about what to about, well comments. A good deal of this has to do with what to do with Newspapers in the Internet ecosystem, and their relationship to their readers, especially as their [...]
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Consensus-Based Funds, or in which an idea is sketched broadly out

By Shana | Published: July 24, 2009
In one of those comments where one never knows quite what the author originally thinks, I had written on Fred Wilson‘s blog, avc.com, Why aren’t there easier ways for average people to invest outside of pooling there money into institutions which then invest for them. Who says I have to like CalPers choices? (if I [...]
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The Price of Freemium

By Shana | Published: July 5, 2009
A number of links are now floating about the Internet about Malcolm Gladwell‘s review of Free, the book by Wired Editor-In-Chief Chris Anderson.  Another review, in the Financial Times, by John Gapper, also does not come out so strongly in favor of the economics advocated by Anderson. The reviews are essentially critiques of the Freemium [...]
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