Breaking News Alert The New York Times Saturday, February 28, 2009 — 6:09 PM ET —– Obama Is Said to Pick Kansas Governor for Health
Author: Dan Ryan
Notificational Webs in Cricles of Friends
In the most recent New Yorker, a short story, “Brother on Sunday” by A.M. Holmes, opens with a woman on the phone: “Are you sure?”
Paying for Online (Media) Information
James Surowiecki has a piece in the current New Yorker “News You Can Lose” (22 December) about the increasingly common disappearance of local newspapers. He
Fundamentals: information, society, and economy
Provocative short piece on Keynes in NYT Magazine today: “The Remedist” by Robert Skidelsky. At issue is the question of just what it was that
What Goes on Page One?
I am today working on a chapter called “Learning to be a Node” about how we need to be socialized into our roles as nodes
Information and Fairness
Insider trading is a classic example of the instrumental value of information and it reminds us of how markets are socially constructed (not in the
