NPR ran a story (today?) entitled “Helping Dropouts Break the Cycle of Poverty.” It’s an enlightening glimpse at the lifetime earning potential for those who don’t finish high school compared with those who do. It’s quite scary, actually, to consider just what an expensive world we have created. Here are some of the numbers:
By the […]

I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but the Open Source radio channel on Odeo apparently discusses recent statements by two important thinkers in Western political science, Francis Fukuyama and Niall Ferguson.
In particular, the write-up describes their growing disappointment with American neo-conservative leaders and their inability to deliver on a grand […]

The Online Journalism Review has published my article on an idea for how online publishers can keep readers longer and further monetize their content.
Last week, I was chatting via IM with my brother about a party he hosted. Still in college, he’s 7 and a half years younger than me, so when he described the […]

This month has been an eventful one in the Iraq War. Iraq is continually in danger of being ripped apart even further by the different factions, and nations funding those factions, struggling for dominance. Unfortunately, there are few voices in the media that can or try to provide comprehensive analysis at any real level of […]

25 things I hate about Google at Search Engine Watch.