Monthly Archives: December 2010

The redesign of the Gawker Media sites

Their focus is not on generating pageviews but on attracting (and retaining, I guess) new readers. – http://gawker.com/ – http://beta.gawker.com/ – Nick Denton interviewed by Henry Blodget @ Ignition – Felix Salmon on Gawker Media

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Ron Paul: We need a WikiLeaks on the Federal Reserve. – [VIDEO]

Any comment Caveat Bettor?

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Tyler Cowen on what happens when human neurodiversity meets information technology – [VIDEO]

Tyler Cowen believes that the economy of the future will be increasingly of the mind, ordering the mind’s contents in new and unique ways. Tyler Cowen hates stories.

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James Gosling speaks. – [VIDEO]

About the future of Java: James Gosling is “the father of Java”.

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Great interview of WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg

The interviewer asks all the good questions.

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Jed Christiansen is taken hostage by the Soviets.

Free Jed Christiansen…!!… So, he can blog again on prediction markets… and pump up the hype.

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Why the neo-con term “freedom fries” never stuck – [VIDEO]

An academic point about the language… but also some good jokes at the end of her segment.

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Rand Paul soon on US Senate = a good thing for the libertarian message (lot more TV appearances starting 2011) – [VIDEO]

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John Stossel on WikiLeaks – [VIDEO]

Julian Assange is charged for “sex by surprise”. What a bunch of Swedish baloney.

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The Third International Conference on Prediction Markets

The Third International Conference on Prediction Markets Nottingham, United Kingdom

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