July 2009
4 posts
Tech timeline for the London Olympics
Only diehard Olympics nuts who want to read coverage about coverage (metacoverage?) of a Games that’s three years away will be interested… but since I’ve made a habit of posting stuff like this, here’s a timeline/project plan on the subject.
A few thoughts on economics and rationality
References in popular media to “irrationality” in human behavior seem to have increased in frequency in the last several years - a noticeable start to the rise coinciding with Kahneman’s Nobel Prize in 2002, and a flurry of squawking generated by the financial turmoil of the past several months. There seems to be some general tacit implication that the traditional (economic)...
Olympics coverage (offseason) news...
As a huge Olympics nut, media headlines/blog posts/etc. on the topic in non-Olympic years sometimes catch my eye - here a few recent ones:
More coverage: USOC and Comcast partner to launch the U.S. Olympic Network
The IOC’s inevitable response: USOC’s TV Network Quickly Stirs Dispute
A call for common sense from a few weeks ago: Reuters Tells Olympics: Reform Media Rules For The...
Back (!?)
Okay, it’s been a long time since my last post (though not as long as Marc Andreessen, who just posted yesterday after being silent since last August; and, yes, that may be the only time Marc and I are compared publicly).
I just returned from sabbatical (a marvelous benefit given by eBay after you’ve been with the company for 5 years), during which Melissa and I took a month-long trip...