Saturday, August 22, 2009
Radionomics is only my fancy portmonteau of radio and economics, of course. The following has more to do with the radio of economics than the economics of radio. Given that I’ve just tried my hand — and failed — at freely distributing podcasts via Podcast Generator, this will make perfect sense: chmod 777 does not [...]
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
First, radio. I could perhaps use the term podcast, because here I mean recorded internet radio, but I’ll use radio because that is the continuity. In the car, I prefer the FM wireless version of my local NPR/classical station (funny to qualify FM as wireless now). Online, though, is where the wide wealth really abounds. [...]
Third day in a row, hark, what madness? Seriously, I thought it worthwhile to post a note on torture and why it is the wrong policy, but not for any original reasons of my own. First, this piece from 2005 by Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky ought to stir some minds. And how did I come [...]
How memes are reinforced in little ways. Here, In 1995, she released the suicide note of former White House aide Vincent Foster, acting on litigation brought by the Wall Street Journal under the Freedom of Information Act. Whereas here, No single item connected to the Foster death has aroused as much controversy as the so-called [...]