Whimsley: Blog Archive

An archive of my blog “Whimsley”, which I maintained roughly from 2005 to 2016, tapering off rapidly thereafter.

Date Title Reading Time
Feb 10, 2021 Uber-optimistic 4 min
Sep 19, 2018 Transport: time for cities to lead 5 min
Oct 9, 2017 Airbnb data collection: announcement 2 min
Jun 19, 2017 At the Boston Review: “Silicon Valley to Liberal Arts Majors: We Want You” 3 min
Apr 27, 2017 Airbnb Data Collection: Get the Data 18 min
Feb 27, 2017 Machining politeness 5 min
Jan 24, 2017 Airbnb downloadable data sets 1 min
Jan 21, 2017 On Orange Tyrants 3 min
Dec 31, 2016 Looking back at my 2016: publications and media 7 min
Aug 29, 2016 Why is Airbnb offering a bonus for new hosts in Vancouver? 4 min
Jul 2, 2016 Airbnb in Lisbon: a few corrections 3 min
May 26, 2016 Airbnb in Barcelona: two readings 2 min
May 26, 2016 Regulating the Sharing Economy 3 min
May 6, 2016 Airbnb data collection code and city stats 1 min
Feb 26, 2016 Wrapping up: personal notes on the Airbnb report 7 min
Feb 12, 2016 What’s Yours is Mine: reviews and other coverage 2 min
Feb 12, 2016 Airbnb report: media coverage 2 min
Feb 10, 2016 How Airbnb’s data hid the facts in New York City 3 min
Dec 2, 2015 Airbnb’s business in New York City 4 min
Nov 8, 2015 Lake Wobegon and the Panopticon: a simulation of real-world reputation systems 4 min
Oct 19, 2015 Uber: (Getting Over)^3 11 min
Sep 27, 2015 Volkswagen, IoT, the NSA and open source software: a quick note 3 min
Sep 27, 2015 Something I didn’t know: Bronte edition 1 min
Sep 26, 2015 More employee/contractor cases 5 min
Sep 16, 2015 Sharing Economy: Three Critical Pieces 4 min
Sep 16, 2015 The case of the power drill 4 min
Sep 15, 2015 A few updates 3 min
Aug 26, 2015 Coming soon… 1 min
Aug 1, 2015 Wishing on a Star 2 min
May 22, 2015 Stallman on Openness. Don’t be an Ass 3 min
Apr 26, 2015 Airbnb Data Collection Methods and Usefulness 1 min
Apr 20, 2015 A Quick Note on Airbnb’s San Francisco Report 3 min
Apr 5, 2015 What’s going on with Airbnb in LA? 7 min
Mar 13, 2015 Yesterday in Airbnb 3 min
Mar 6, 2015 AWS S3 test 1 min
Feb 24, 2015 Going quieter for a while 2 min
Feb 1, 2015 Roman Holiday: Airbnb and Gentrification 5 min
Jan 26, 2015 The Sound of Silence, or What Uber and Airbnb’s Missing Data Tells Us 6 min
Dec 19, 2014 The 2001 Anthrax Deception 14 min
Nov 27, 2014 Merci, Le Figaro… 1 min
Nov 22, 2014 Why Canada should de-activate Uber 17 min
Nov 9, 2014 Lucky Me 1 min
Oct 5, 2014 In Praise of Fake Reviews 23 min
Sep 24, 2014 Uber Drivers Organizing 2 min
Sep 24, 2014 Airbnb City Maps 1 min
Sep 16, 2014 All Sharing Economy, All the Time 2 min
Jul 8, 2014 Airbnb in Barcelona 2 min
Jun 20, 2014 Airbnb stats everywhere (and a question) 2 min
Jun 13, 2014 Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2014 5 min
Jun 9, 2014 The shape of Airbnb’s business (II) 10 min
Jun 3, 2014 Uber Drivers Earning $90K/year? More Evidence Needed 8 min
May 27, 2014 The shape of Airbnb’s business 13 min
May 19, 2014 Out and About 2 min
May 4, 2014 The People’s Platform: Who are No Logo’s Children? 7 min
Apr 25, 2014 Economist on sharing economy 6 min
Apr 25, 2014 Economist on the sharing economy 4 min
Apr 22, 2014 No True Airbnb Host… 9 min
Mar 2, 2014 Me on CBC Radio 1 min
Jan 24, 2014 Sharing economy and informal economy 2 min
Jan 24, 2014 Sharing and Caring at Jacobin 1 min
Jan 23, 2014 Airbnb Stories 5 min
Jan 19, 2014 Sharing Economy Startup Generator 7 min
Jan 3, 2014 On Surge Pricing 4 min
Dec 10, 2013 This Week in the Sharing Economy: Late Edition 2 min
Nov 20, 2013 This Week in the Sharing Economy: The Move to Professionalism 4 min
Nov 11, 2013 Airbnb Business in New York, Revisited 1 min
Nov 9, 2013 This Week in the Sharing Economy (November 8 2013 Edition) 3 min
Nov 1, 2013 This Week in the Sharing Economy 3 min
Oct 19, 2013 Notes on Airbnb’s New York Business 3 min
Oct 1, 2013 RelayRides, GigaOm 1 min
Sep 30, 2013 Some Obvious Things About Internet Reputation Systems 24 min
Sep 21, 2013 Bragging alert 1 min
Sep 13, 2013 Trying a Dark Theme 1 min
Sep 8, 2013 Six Degrees of Omidyar 10 min
Sep 8, 2013 Impostor Syndrome 2 min
Sep 5, 2013 “Hacking Society”: me at the Literary Review of Canada 1 min
Aug 30, 2013 Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t 12 min
Jul 28, 2013 Testing org2blog 1 min
Jun 15, 2013 Yes, the Apache Foundation Should Dump Accumulo 5 min
Jun 14, 2013 Should the Apache Foundation delist Accumulo? 2 min
Jun 12, 2013 Open Wide: Me at The New Inquiry 2 min
Jun 12, 2013 Open wide 12 min
Jun 10, 2013 Free Software and Surveillance 3 min
Mar 15, 2013 FutureEverything: Notes Against Openness 7 min
Mar 9, 2013 Evgeny Morozov’s “To Save Everything, Click Here” 14 min
Feb 26, 2013 Notes on Identity, Institutions, and Uprisings 22 min
Feb 7, 2013 Welcome to tomslee.net 1 min
Feb 3, 2013 Update 2 min
Jan 4, 2013 Self-Assessment 2013 7 min
Dec 31, 2012 Peer-to-Peer Hucksterism: An Open Letter to Tim Wu 9 min
Dec 29, 2012 Wikibollocks Alert: Peer-to-peer sharing went big in 2012 2 min
Dec 15, 2012 Sixty-Two Things Wrong with “Future Perfect” 21 min
Dec 8, 2012 What Cascade Theories Don’t Tell Us 14 min
Dec 2, 2012 When Theories Matter: Uprisings in Authoritarian States 3 min
Dec 1, 2012 Writing Towards Zero 1 min
Jun 25, 2012 Open Data at Crooked Timber 1 min
May 8, 2012 Open Data Movement Redux: Tribes and Contradictions 21 min
May 2, 2012 Is philosophy a joke? 2 min
May 1, 2012 Reactions to ‘Why the “Open Data Movement” is a Joke’ 4 min
May 1, 2012 Why the “Open Data Movement” is a Joke 6 min
Apr 6, 2012 Click to Judge 4 min
Mar 7, 2012 Wikibollocks: Mathew Ingram and Seth Godin on publishing 9 min
Feb 10, 2012 Alone Together II: The Unburdening 13 min
Feb 6, 2012 undefined 1 min
Jan 20, 2012 Alone Together 1: Stories 8 min
Jan 14, 2012 Short Notes: Cute Cats (or not) in Central Asia 1 min
Jan 13, 2012 Upcoming: Alone Together 1 min
Jan 5, 2012 Ethan Zuckerman’s “Cute Cats and the Arab Spring” 8 min
Jan 2, 2012 2012 Predictions: Turning Points for the Web 7 min
Oct 18, 2011 Comment problems and one other update 1 min
Oct 16, 2011 Morozov on Jarvis: Is There a Point? 4 min
Oct 6, 2011 Broken Promises: Following Your Dreams, and the 99 percent 2 min
Sep 28, 2011 My favourite post… 1 min
Sep 26, 2011 Data Anonymization and Re-identification: Some Basics Of Data Privacy 20 min
Sep 22, 2011 Internet-Centrism 3 (of 3): Tweeting the Revolution (and Conflict of Interest) 11 min
Sep 18, 2011 Internet-Centrism 2 (of 3): Streetbook 10 min
Sep 17, 2011 Internet-Centrism 1 (of 3): Evgeny Morozov and The Net Delusion 5 min
Sep 2, 2011 Two Digital Fallacies 2 min
Aug 29, 2011 Media Disruption Exacerbates Revolutionary Unrest? Notes. 6 min
Aug 14, 2011 As TV goes online, the Internet becomes more like TV 4 min
Aug 12, 2011 So You Think You Can Tweet 3 min
Aug 12, 2011 A Riot to Tweet? 3 min
Jul 16, 2011 Linking to Dystopia: Wikileaks, Google, and Amazon 2 min
Jul 11, 2011 Links: Carr, Facebook, Ravelry, Amazon 2 min
Jul 8, 2011 An Uncertain World III: Everything is Obvious, by Duncan J. Watts 10 min
Jun 19, 2011 Postponement 1 min
Jun 8, 2011 Facebook: CIA program? 1 min
Jun 7, 2011 Senate Page protest: picture of the year 1 min
Jun 5, 2011 Housecleaning: blogroll etc 1 min
Jun 4, 2011 An Uncertain World II: Adapt, by Tim Harford 17 min
May 31, 2011 An Uncertain World 1: Future Babble by Dan Gardner 9 min
May 2, 2011 “The most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented” 2 min
Apr 29, 2011 Facebook-style democracy: only if it suits 2 min
Apr 29, 2011 “Real-Time Entertainment” outpacing the web 1 min
Mar 7, 2011 Someone needs to change their name 1 min
Mar 4, 2011 Blogs and Bullets: Breaking Down Social Media 13 min
Feb 18, 2011 More Egypt, More Facebook 20 min
Feb 15, 2011 Egypt: Debunking the Twitter-debunker-debunkers 2 min
Feb 14, 2011 Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution”: Looking Under the Lamp Post? 6 min
Feb 11, 2011 “Cuts” - by Manipulatrix, video by Diva Schematic 1 min
Jan 23, 2011 Late-Night Thoughts Against Reductionism 11 min
Jan 8, 2011 The Closing of Generation X 7 min
Dec 29, 2010 Frustrated philosophy student 1 min
Dec 16, 2010 Crowdsourcing Government Cuts 1 min
Dec 11, 2010 Many-to-many radio? 1 min
Dec 5, 2010 WikiLeaks Shines a Light on the Limits of Techno-Politics 5 min
Nov 29, 2010 Unionbook 1 min
Nov 28, 2010 Spot the Difference 1 min
Nov 27, 2010 Wu Knows What a Monopoly Is? 3 min
Nov 27, 2010 Kids Today… 1 min
Nov 16, 2010 What Else Is Wrong With Government 2.0 9 min
Nov 13, 2010 What is Wrong With Government 2.0 6 min
Nov 11, 2010 Macrowikinomics 2: Ushahidi and Information as Bottleneck 12 min
Nov 9, 2010 My favourite gravestone 1 min
Nov 7, 2010 Macrowikinomics I: Generalities 6 min
Nov 4, 2010 Eleanor Wachtel interviews John Le Carre 1 min
Nov 3, 2010 Facebook’s Mobile Platform: Top 7 Creepy Quotes 2 min
Oct 31, 2010 Fading out RSS, Fading in Twitter 1 min
Oct 19, 2010 Net Delusional 1 min
Oct 7, 2010 The Waki World of Macrowikinomics 3 min
Aug 13, 2010 Links 2 min
Jul 26, 2010 Jottings on Facebook, Wikipedia, Content Farms 4 min
Jul 11, 2010 Helen DeWitt hears about the Awesomeness of Internet 1 min
May 30, 2010 “Identity Economics” by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton: A Rambling Review 20 min
Apr 25, 2010 Wikibollocks: The Shirky Rules 16 min
Apr 3, 2010 Typepad Has Put a Little Button Saying “Reblog It” at the Top of “Economist’s View” and “Marginal Revolution”… 1 min
Feb 10, 2010 Meet the New Boys’ Club, Part 2 1 min
Feb 6, 2010 Search Term of the Week 1 min
Jan 27, 2010 At Crooked Timber 1 min
Jan 23, 2010 Torture is a war crime 1 min
Jan 23, 2010 Democracy Rally in Waterloo 1 min
Jan 22, 2010 Occasionally, something on the Internet makes me happy 1 min
Jan 17, 2010 Google: warlord in a world of bandits? 7 min
Jan 11, 2010 The Edge World Question: Meet the New Boys’ Club, Same as the Old Boys’ Club 2 min
Jan 10, 2010 Digital Activism: If Information Is Not the Problem, Information is Not the Solution 5 min
Jan 9, 2010 The Myth of Digital Democracy, by Matthew Hindman - reviewing the reviews 10 min
Jan 3, 2010 The Web 2.0 Dilemma: Profit and Liability Go Together 7 min
Dec 11, 2009 Mole People! 1 min
Nov 20, 2009 Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: Arguing Against Myself 1 min
Nov 20, 2009 Pirate’s Dilemma Review Remixed 6 min
Nov 14, 2009 The Pirate’s Dilemma by Matt Mason: A Review 7 min
Nov 3, 2009 Sentence of the day, sexist edition 1 min
Nov 1, 2009 Price of a Bargain: Review in Literary Review of Canada 4 min
Oct 26, 2009 Sentence of the day 1 min
Oct 25, 2009 Netflix Prize: Was The Napoleon Dynamite Problem Solved? 7 min
Oct 24, 2009 Why I Am Such an Infrequent Blogger 1 min
Oct 6, 2009 As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with a Nobel Prize 1 min
Sep 25, 2009 More Long Tail: Everyone Is Still Wrong 4 min
Sep 21, 2009 Netflix Prize: Congratulations to BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos 1 min
Sep 4, 2009 Google Book Settlement: I think I opted out 1 min
Jul 28, 2009 No Free Stuff Here 1 min
Jul 24, 2009 Online advertising: when better is worse 5 min
Jul 19, 2009 Wikibollocks: Lawrence Lessig/Kevin Kelly Edition 10 min
Jul 3, 2009 Googling Barbie Again 5 min
Jun 26, 2009 Netflix Prize: Basically Won 1 min
Jun 21, 2009 Review: Market Rebels, by Hayagreeva Rao 7 min
Apr 3, 2009 Google, meet Wal-Mart 5 min
Mar 24, 2009 Simulations and Mechanisms 4 min
Mar 15, 2009 Online Monoculture and the End of the Niche 9 min
Mar 14, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: The French Lieutenant’s Bookshop? 4 min
Mar 10, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: Where is Kylie? 10 min
Mar 3, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: Recommending the Big Sellers 11 min
Mar 2, 2009 The Brilliant Bechdel/Wallace Movie Test 1 min
Feb 28, 2009 Review: The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain 11 min
Feb 23, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: Another Conversation with Google 5 min
Feb 16, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: Kylie Returns 8 min
Feb 10, 2009 Google Monoculture: Defending Jeff Atwood 5 min
Feb 9, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: Mr. Amazon’s Shelves 4 min
Feb 9, 2009 The Horror, The (Coding) Horror 1 min
Feb 4, 2009 Blood and Treasure on the Daily Mash 1 min
Feb 2, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: Down with Gatekeepers! 9 min
Jan 31, 2009 This site may harm your computer?? 1 min
Jan 29, 2009 SYS-CON Media Redux: You Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up 4 min
Jan 28, 2009 One hundred thousand 3 min
Jan 26, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: The Differ 10 min
Jan 25, 2009 Motor Neuron Disease/ALS 1 min
Jan 24, 2009 The Outsider Manoeuvre 3 min
Jan 20, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: Doubts About Amazon 4 min
Jan 19, 2009 Tumbleweed blogs (firstname challenge again) 5 min
Jan 18, 2009 Few people would have predicted… 1 min
Jan 18, 2009 firstname.blogspot.com: a challenge 2 min
Jan 16, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: What is a Book? 6 min
Jan 15, 2009 Google’s countercultural moment is over 2 min
Jan 14, 2009 Lawrence Lessig’s Remix: a rambling review 12 min
Jan 11, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: A Conversation with the Butler 3 min
Jan 11, 2009 Sys-con media is an appalling and shameless outfit. Avoid it. 3 min
Jan 5, 2009 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: The Appeal of Amazon 6 min
Dec 31, 2008 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop: First Visits 7 min
Dec 31, 2008 Mr. Amazon’s Bookshop 1 min
Dec 30, 2008 I Am Part Of The Slow Movement. You Are Just Slow. 1 min
Dec 12, 2008 I am a Champion of Authenticity. You are in the Vanguard of Corruption. 4 min
Dec 11, 2008 Apple’s Lemons 3 min
Nov 24, 2008 Theses on Netflix 4 min
Nov 22, 2008 Not Getting Work Done 1 min
Nov 19, 2008 Long Tail stops wagging 2 min
Nov 18, 2008 Link Books to Their Open Library Page 2 min
Nov 18, 2008 I’m officially a hack! 1 min
Oct 27, 2008 Cloudy Monopolies II: 5 min
Oct 26, 2008 O’Reilly vs Carr on Cloudy Monopolies 7 min
Oct 24, 2008 All the Web’s a Stage 4 min
Oct 20, 2008 YouTube Becomes Big Business 3 min
Oct 16, 2008 How Long Will This Post Survive? 3 min
Oct 15, 2008 WikiBollocks: Tapscott DigiDemocracy Hype Shock Horror 2 min
Oct 15, 2008 Graph Time: Canadian Election 1 min
Oct 14, 2008 Election prediction (Not that one, the Canadian one) 1 min
Sep 24, 2008 Blogging for the Man 1 min
Sep 10, 2008 Letter to the Globe and Mail 1 min
Sep 5, 2008 Excuses 2 min
Jul 5, 2008 What do you say to your heroes? Serving petrol to Ernie Wise 2 min
Jun 28, 2008 Why oh why can’t we have a better academia? 3 min
Jun 21, 2008 My New Book: Explosion!TM 11 min
Jun 17, 2008 Graph of the Week: Global Cement Use 1 min
Jun 15, 2008 dog blogging 1 min
Jun 1, 2008 blackberry photoblogging test 1 min
Jun 1, 2008 Email Blogging test 1 min
May 18, 2008 Money Ruins Everything, but we have to talk about it anyway 8 min
May 10, 2008 (De)fraud 1 min
May 3, 2008 Paying for Linux 5 min
Apr 19, 2008 Linux Grows Up and Gets a Job 4 min
Apr 12, 2008 Talking of war… 1 min
Apr 12, 2008 Taxi to the Dark Side/Talking to the Taliban 4 min
Apr 6, 2008 Here Comes Everybody 10 min
Mar 24, 2008 The Anarchist in the Library 10 min
Mar 17, 2008 Long Tail of News? Actually No. 2 min
Mar 7, 2008 Mr. Google’s Guidebook 14 min
Feb 29, 2008 Quantum Breathing 9 min
Feb 8, 2008 The Clintons 1 min
Feb 3, 2008 Don’t be Pompous 3 min
Feb 2, 2008 Long Tail of Books? Actually No. 2 min
Jan 26, 2008 Barbie slinks back to the confines of feminist-criticism symposia 3 min
Jan 24, 2008 Beyond Defending the State 8 min
Jan 23, 2008 Guest blog at Relentlessly Progressive Economics 1 min
Jan 21, 2008 “The Big Picture, Which Is That There Isn’t Any”* 3 min
Jan 21, 2008 The Big Switch 7 min
Jan 20, 2008 Back, occasionally 1 min
Nov 18, 2007 A Critical Reader’s Guide to The Long Tail 1 min
Nov 9, 2007 No More Poppies 3 min
Oct 13, 2007 Infrequently Asked Questions 5 min
Sep 21, 2007 INLAND EMPIRE 2 min
Sep 15, 2007 Winding Down Whimsley 1 min
Aug 12, 2007 Preconceptions 1 min
Aug 7, 2007 Another Few Words on Netflix 3 min
Aug 6, 2007 It could be worse 1 min
Jul 29, 2007 The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later 12 min
Jul 28, 2007 Arms Races 2 min
Jul 26, 2007 Looking After Oxford 1 min
Jul 18, 2007 Dave Meleney 2 min
Jul 14, 2007 If That’s All Right With You - A Modest Manifesto 11 min
Jul 9, 2007 Bard of Salford 1 min
Jul 5, 2007 Happy Shoes IV - Activists and Consumer Magazines 5 min
Jul 4, 2007 Happy Shoes III - A few references 3 min
Jul 3, 2007 Happy Shoes II 3 min
Jul 2, 2007 Happy Shoes I 3 min
Jun 19, 2007 Kindness to Electrons or a Tax Break? Why is Google Building in Iowa? 1 min
Jun 16, 2007 Watching the Economists - Magnetism and Experts 4 min
May 29, 2007 Do’s and Don’ts of Body Mutilation 1 min
May 25, 2007 Reputations 1 min
May 25, 2007 Believe the Opposite: Radical Opacity 5 min
May 20, 2007 The liberation mythology of the internet 2 min
May 18, 2007 Pain is Good 1 min
May 18, 2007 A response to Alex Tabarrok 7 min
May 12, 2007 42,334 1 min
May 4, 2007 Two Cheers for Technology 5 min
Apr 28, 2007 Packaging 1 min
Apr 27, 2007 Good Guys or Bad Guys in Afghanistan? It Makes Little Difference 3 min
Apr 18, 2007 Predicting hits may be like predicting the weather 3 min
Apr 16, 2007 Independent Bookstores in the UK 3 min
Apr 15, 2007 Infotopia 6 min
Apr 13, 2007 Starting Non-Fiction Books With Stories: Give it a Break 6 min
Apr 11, 2007 The Long Tail 15 - Coda 9 min
Apr 9, 2007 Birder Prize 1 min
Apr 9, 2007 The Long Tail 14 - Long Tail Rules 5 min
Apr 7, 2007 Wikinomics - or Et Tu, Rabble.ca 4 min
Apr 7, 2007 Eggs of Victory 1 min
Apr 6, 2007 Radical Transparency? Not so much 1 min
Apr 6, 2007 The Long Tail 13 - Beyond Entertainment 7 min
Mar 29, 2007 Big People and Small People in London 1 min
Mar 29, 2007 Finney passes to Nugent 1 min
Mar 29, 2007 The Long Tail 12 - The Infinite Screen 10 min
Mar 25, 2007 Tims Spey Way Challenge 4 min
Mar 23, 2007 The Long Tail 11.2 - Living in a Niche Culture (2) 7 min
Mar 23, 2007 The Long Tail 11.1 - Living in a Niche Culture (1) 9 min
Mar 18, 2007 The Long Tail 10.1 - A Short Note 2 min
Mar 18, 2007 The Long Tail 10 - The Paradise of Choice 13 min
Mar 17, 2007 The Long Tail 9.3 - The Short Head Part 2 12 min
Mar 15, 2007 The Long Tail 9.2 - The Short Head is Alive and Well 2 min
Mar 15, 2007 The Long Tail 9.1 - The Short Head Part 1 12 min
Mar 12, 2007 The Long Tail 8.1 - A Note on Networks 4 min
Mar 11, 2007 The Long Tail 8 - Long Tail Economics 7 min
Mar 10, 2007 The Long Tail 7 - The New Tastemakers 16 min
Mar 10, 2007 The Long Tail - Links to Posts 2 min
Mar 8, 2007 International Women’s Day - Why We Still Need Feminism 1 min
Mar 8, 2007 Progressive Blogger Welcome and Long Tail 7 Teaser 3 min
Mar 8, 2007 Rough Type 1 min
Mar 5, 2007 The Long Tail 6 - The New Markets 12 min
Mar 4, 2007 The Long Tail 5.1 - One Big Virtual Tent 13 min
Feb 27, 2007 agblosticism: my little gift to the world of words 1 min
Feb 26, 2007 The Long Tail 5 - The New Producers 16 min
Feb 25, 2007 The Long Tail 4 -The Three Forces of the Long Tail 5 min
Feb 24, 2007 The Long Tail 3 - A Short History of the Long Tail 8 min
Feb 19, 2007 The Long Tail 2 - The Rise and Fall of the Hit 11 min
Feb 18, 2007 The Long Tail 1 - The Long Tail 11 min
Feb 18, 2007 The Long Tail 0.2 - Introduction 13 min
Feb 17, 2007 The Long Tail 0.1 - The Cover 6 min
Feb 17, 2007 The Long Tail 0 - Cards on the Table 4 min
Feb 16, 2007 A School District With Low Taxes and No Schools - New York Times 2 min
Feb 13, 2007 Aha 1 min
Feb 13, 2007 How should we link to books? 2 min
Feb 6, 2007 Tit fot Tat 4 min
Feb 3, 2007 In memoriam: Anatol Rapoport 4 min
Jan 28, 2007 Freak - Freakonomics � unsettling economics 1 min
Jan 25, 2007 Sleeping Chinese Parliamentarians 1 min
Jan 24, 2007 Grumpy Employees Are Productive Employees II 2 min
Jan 23, 2007 Grumpy employees are productive employees 7 min
Jan 20, 2007 Collective Action among Small Producers: Indies unite to challenge Big Four digital deals | The Register 2 min
Jan 15, 2007 Where are the Canadian Essays? 3 min
Jan 14, 2007 Food for Thought: Anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer 4 min
Jan 7, 2007 Bouquests & Brickbats: David Olive 1 min
Jan 1, 2007 Go Joe! Stiglitz that is - Worth Watching in 2007 3 min
Jan 1, 2007 Pig Shit 3 min
Dec 30, 2006 Second Least Surprising Story of the Week 2 min
Dec 30, 2006 Least Surprising Story of the Week: Apple Clears Jobs 1 min
Dec 29, 2006 Trackbacks Are Dead 1 min
Dec 24, 2006 Heckling from the Cheap Seats: Jeremy Rifkin is Wrong About Cities 3 min
Dec 23, 2006 2006 Best of the Year List 4 min
Dec 23, 2006 Bad Reviews: What’s a Novice Author To Do? 2 min
Dec 17, 2006 Technology Makes You Stupid 2 min
Dec 12, 2006 Popularity Rises With Price 3 min
Nov 24, 2006 Bureaucracy: it ain’t just the government 3 min
Nov 22, 2006 Best Seller! 2 min
Nov 21, 2006 Tuangou 3 min
Nov 5, 2006 On Doing My Homework 6 min
Oct 29, 2006 A Curious Incident 1 min
Oct 29, 2006 Quantum Computing Revisited 2 min
Oct 25, 2006 The State Versus The Market: The Tale of the Toilet 10 min
Oct 24, 2006 Book Review at Stumbling and Mumbling 3 min
Oct 22, 2006 In the Land of the Taliban - New York Times 5 min
Oct 18, 2006 Radio Interview 2 min
Oct 16, 2006 Grameen Bank: An Idea That Works 7 min
Oct 10, 2006 Book News: Review 2 min
Oct 10, 2006 Book News: Speaking Engagements 3 min
Oct 9, 2006 Quantum Computing: Gripes from a Quantum Fuddy-Duddy 11 min
Oct 8, 2006 No Attack On Iran 3 min
Oct 6, 2006 Scholarships: Enough With the Leadership Thing 4 min
Sep 20, 2006 YouTube is a phenomenon 1 min
Aug 31, 2006 Software Featuritis, or Why Checklists are Bad 7 min
Aug 28, 2006 Lawyerbots Again 3 min
Aug 27, 2006 Economists and Sociologists on Organs 11 min
Aug 26, 2006 “How’s the Book Doing?” Entrails and Tea Leaves 6 min
Aug 25, 2006 The whine of globalization 1 min
Aug 24, 2006 Andy Warhol / Supernova 4 min
Aug 21, 2006 Developer-led Planning 1 min
Aug 13, 2006 Cool Webby Things Change How We Work 2 min
Aug 13, 2006 Carnival of Wal-Mart 1 min
Aug 13, 2006 Crisis and Opportunity 1 min
Aug 8, 2006 I wish… 1 min
Aug 7, 2006 The Wal-Mart Bargain 6 min
Aug 6, 2006 Worth Reading: On Suburbia 3 min
Aug 4, 2006 UnMarkets Everywhere: A Courageous “Blogger” 2 min
Jul 31, 2006 Book Review in Winnipeg Free Press 3 min
Jul 27, 2006 bytech is a discerning individual 1 min
Jul 27, 2006 Featured Item 1 min
Jul 24, 2006 Inequality II: Consequences 2 min
Jul 24, 2006 Inequality I: Changes 6 min
Jul 23, 2006 Design change 2 min
Jul 10, 2006 Movies: Nobody Knows Anything 4 min
Jul 10, 2006 Juicy kidneys! Get yer nice fresh kidneys here! 7 min
Jul 3, 2006 Have Your Robots Talk to My Robots 9 min
Jun 30, 2006 Book Review in This Magazine 2 min
Jun 26, 2006 Co-ordination Failures in New Orleans 8 min
Jun 9, 2006 Reading about Iraq 6 min
Jun 5, 2006 Attack of the Snobs - American Enterprise Gets It All Wrong 4 min
Jun 5, 2006 Blogging about blogging about blogging 3 min
Jun 5, 2006 Bob Rae 3 min
May 30, 2006 Reader, you’re a right dimwit 4 min
May 28, 2006 Great Throbbing Caterpillars 1 min
May 28, 2006 Revenge of the elephant racers 7 min
May 24, 2006 Why Europeans Work Less Than Americans 3 min
May 22, 2006 Blood and Money 2 min
May 21, 2006 Lordi 1 min
May 19, 2006 Paradigm-Busting 2 min
May 17, 2006 Book Review 3 min
May 7, 2006 Lots of cars => fond of cars? 2 min
May 5, 2006 Book Launch! 1 min
May 1, 2006 Galbraith and the Conventional Wisdom of Economics 4 min
Apr 25, 2006 Jane Jacobs: 1916 - 2006 3 min
Apr 17, 2006 The Man Who Saved the World 1 min
Apr 16, 2006 Unusual video games 1 min
Apr 16, 2006 An arrogant convert 4 min
Apr 14, 2006 Five Things I Don’t Believe… 3 min
Apr 13, 2006 Weblog reorganization 1 min
Apr 12, 2006 Schelling on Iranian Nukes 1 min
Apr 10, 2006 The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order 1 min
Apr 1, 2006 Chain reaction: UK Bookstores 2 min
Mar 22, 2006 A Bed for the Night 1 min
Mar 21, 2006 A “Thank You”, battling my worse nature 3 min
Mar 21, 2006 Baghdad Burning: Three Years… 1 min
Mar 19, 2006 Not a Blogger 4 min
Mar 17, 2006 Read the numbers on your fruit 1 min
Mar 12, 2006 Sea Squirt 1 min
Mar 12, 2006 Waterfall 2006 1 min
Mar 11, 2006 Economist’s View: Mankiw on Globalization: People Should Move 2 min
Mar 7, 2006 Wal-Mart Uses Bloggers in PR Campaign 2 min
Mar 7, 2006 Stuff and Status 2 min
Mar 3, 2006 Wal-Mart Extending Dominance of the Grocery Business - New York Times 3 min
Feb 22, 2006 Tescopoly 1 min
Feb 21, 2006 Why Globalization Works: Notes Part II 6 min
Feb 2, 2006 Online bookstores 1 min
Jan 31, 2006 Why Globalization Works: Notes Part 1 8 min
Jan 28, 2006 The Evolution of Top Incomes 2 min
Jan 14, 2006 Which matters more, the income of the average or the average income? 1 min
Jan 14, 2006 No level playing field in football’s globalisation 4 min
Jan 13, 2006 Learning By Drinking 15 min
Jan 12, 2006 DVD Dilemma 3 min
Jan 8, 2006 Mark Steyn is stupid 1 min
Jan 8, 2006 Stalkerazzi 3 min
Jan 8, 2006 FootBinding: Search for the Three Inch Golden Lotus 2 min
Dec 31, 2005 The Commons Blog 7 min
Dec 26, 2005 India creates database to halt theft of lore 5 min
Dec 19, 2005 Trubba Not 2 min
Dec 15, 2005 Informed Comment Pessimistic on Iraq 2 min
Dec 15, 2005 Globe Editorial Again 2 min
Dec 15, 2005 Globollocks from the Globe and Mail 2 min
Dec 13, 2005 Dean Gray Tuesday 1 min
Dec 13, 2005 Adverse selection is so the problem 4 min
Dec 7, 2005 Who shops with an eye to the big picture? 2 min
Dec 6, 2005 December 6: in memoriam 1 min
Dec 6, 2005 Google Earth is a timesink 1 min
Dec 6, 2005 On Their Own in Battered New Orleans - Los Angeles Times 6 min
Nov 26, 2005 USB Christmas 6 min
Nov 25, 2005 Environmental and Urban Economics blogs 1 min
Nov 24, 2005 Winner Take All in Books 3 min
Nov 22, 2005 We’ll Have to Do Something About the Rich 2 min
Nov 21, 2005 Identity Crisis 4 min
Nov 18, 2005 Rebel Sell Snarky-Tees 2 min
Nov 18, 2005 A new eugenics? 2 min
Nov 18, 2005 Healthcare Delivery 1 min
Nov 18, 2005 Voting With Their Feet? 2 min
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