Saturday, October 31, 2009
Most Interesting Shots (Today) #8
Each night, the photo sharing site Flickr ranks all the photos I've posted there according to their degree of "interestingness." Here are my 30 most interesting today. Earlier versions can be found here. Flickr likes my dogs and my buildings. More...
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Amtrak deflation
With the exception of the Northeast Corridor services, all Amtrak routes lose money. But the surprise, to me anyway, was how much some routes lose. The Sunset Limited, which runs from New Orleans to LA, loses $460/passenger!
Now, I'm a hug Amtrak fan and I ride the rails about twice a week between New York and Philly, but it really burns me that places where rail makes good economic sense like the Northeast are starved of funds to feed the romance of the rails in parts of the country where it makes no sense. I mean, surely people riding from New Orleans to LA could, er, pay a little more?
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
World's Tiniest Model Train
This took me a little while to figure out, but this is a working model of a very tiny train set.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
News deflation
Can reams of news articles produced for $15-$20 a pop crush the New York Times online? That's the question posed by the business model of Demand Media.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Declining Dollar
Long term, there is no where for the dollar to go but down, especially if countries like those of OPEC stop using dollars to price commodities like oil.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Online Ad Deflation
Total spending in online advertising fell for the second quarter straight. That's the first time that's happened since the first dot-com bust.
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Here's a quick explanation of Google Wave. Can I have an invitation to be a beta tester please?
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Friday, October 2, 2009
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