Gordon's Notes

Twitter will become a blend of home shopping network, daytime TV, and tabloid news. That might be quite profitable. There is money in sane...

Five years ago I tried to figure out why we couldn't share work across our corporate units . This turned out to be one of those rabbit ...

For much of human history slavery , rape, abuse of children and women, heavy drinking, murder, cruelty, and animal torture were commonplace ...

RSS is history. We know that. It's been replaced by ... by ....  Right. Whatever is going to replace Feeds (RSS/Atom) hasn't quite ...

After 1973, and especially after the early 1980s, productivity gains went towards the 1%. Media male compensation in particular went flatlin...

Reading 9th grade world history  as an adult I read over the names of the wicked and the great. I round years to centuries, and nations to r...

Long ago Emily and I took a guided tour of Jefferson's home. He was described in glowing terms. In those days Jefferson was still a lege...

The American "War on Christmas" movement seems thoroughly silly .... Reminder: Tis the Season Not to Be an Ass – Whatever ...i...

Google Reader Social is dead. Thanks to its creators for showing what could be done, and thanks go Google for leaving room in the market to ...

In my early years white male heterosexual superiority was pretty much hardwired into my culture. I grew up in Quebec, so in my earliest pre-...

After years of making past IOT episodes available only for streaming, the BBC is making the archive of their History of Ideas program availa...

For the past fifteen years I've been fascinated by how the information technologies of the late 20th century supercharged old frauds. I ...

Today one of the quality bloggers I read declared  blogging is dying . Two weeks ago, Brent Simmons, an early sub/pub (RSS, Atom) adopter ta...

There are two racers. Jane is legless. Since the age of two she has excelled. Jill is apathetic. She has trouble getting started. She give...

Gay marriage is a done deal. That culture battle is done. We lost the gun wars, but we won on Gay rights. So now peace has broken out acros...

Jared Loughner is a paranoid schizophrenic. Loughner a "textbook" case paranoid schizophrenic - Jared Loughner - Salon.com ... He&...

I get emails when a reader (infrequently) comments. The author deleted this comment, so I'll keep it anonymous ... Say, is it not odd ...

Victory: The war against 20th century psychiatric diagnoses is all but won . It's been a long time coming, this rebellion has roots goin...

Brad DeLong, my favorite economist, has published the latest edition of his annual Econ 1 Berkeley: September 29 2010 Economic Growth Lectur...

Chinese, for a time, will pass English as a net language . The authors imply that a predictable course, but they forget that the world's...