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
Equality, Information and the Courts Redux: The Dan Rather Report
Dan Rather’s lawsuit against CBS isback in the news*. The gist of the suit is Rather’s claim that the network allowed political considerations (over his
Innoeduvation 