Blogshares is a nifty fantasy stock market based on blogs that uses hyperlinks as the main measure of a blog’s worth. The site is interesting, but something seems lacking since Slashdot does not appear in the top lists. I guess it’s possible that this is because most people don’t link to Slashdot. But a link from Slashdot is something of great influence and it would be nice to quantify that.
Slashdot had a pointer to the Museum of Unworkable Devices which provides a nice, educational analysis of how unlimited energy producing devices never work.
I’m sad to see it. Yes, I do hope for the best for the American troops who are doing their duty as ordered. I also hope for the safety of the Iraqi civilians. And I hope that things do not go as badly as in Scott Rosenberg’s analysis. And I do hope that ego and electioneering are not the main factors taking us into war.
Thank goodness for freedom of speech. In some nations, even a former leader would be unable to speak out against current foreign policy. Jimmy Carter makes some excellent arguments, and I hope that polls continue to show dwindling support for unilateral US action in Iraq. I don’t believe that the Bush administration’s foreign policy is representative of the majority view in America, and certainly is not representative of the beliefs of the rest of the world.
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FastCompany has a fascinating article about pricing. Pricing doesn’t seem like a horribly interesting topic, until you try to set prices yourself. Back when I was running Byproducts.com, I went through a couple of different pricing models. The second model was definitely far more profitable than the first (which was a simple “cost-plus” model), but it was still not a scientifically produced model like the ones in the FastCompany article.
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