In this 21st Century era of broadband Internet, we get our entertainment in 5-minute bites. Who could possibly concentrate for a whole two hours? Hence, short films are where it’s at these days.
In case you haven’t already seen the latest hit on Boing Boing:
The original is here.
Microsoft has upgrade its online storage SkyDrive service to 5GB per user. This made me happy because it would be perfect for keeping an online backup of my work. However, when I actually tried to use it, I found you have to upload files one at a time, by browsing for them individually. And each file is limited to 50MB, so I can’t upload a zip file of everything.
What’s the point of offering 5GB if you’re going to cripple the service in this way? It seems like the 5GB is just a marketing stunt. Lame.
Check out the pretty pictures of the blogosphere in MIT’s Technology Review. Here’s one of Matt Hurst’s graphs of links between blogs:
You see, it is a sphere after all! The dense mass in the middle is the ‘core’ of the blogosphere, which is about 1,000 popular blogs related to politics, technology, and general news. Smaller communities live outside the core and link into it. I wonder where the econ blog community lives and what it looks like.
A while back I had a blog post about SlideShare, which is trying to be the “YouTube” of slides. I was kind of sceptical about whether they’d become popular, but it seems that they’re growing reasonably rapidly. A search for “economics” now turns up more than 5,000 sets of slides. Here’s a few interesting-looking examples:
Non-economics related:
Check out the latest Facebook application: Cake Investment Club. Share your portfolio with your friends. See who’s outperforming who.
All I can say is, for goodness sake, don’t use this. It’ll only lead you to make more costly trades in fits of jealousy over friends who’ve gotten lucky. It’s highly unlikely that any of your Facebook friends have any better information than the market already does.
A possible exception is if your friends are trading on inside information. Maybe you should watch the trades of friends who are trading shares in the companies that they work for. Would this make you also liable as an insider-trader?
(HT: Mashable)
