noah brier on stuff
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That’s sad.
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Rob Walker brings some much-needed art to delicious links.
Highlighting some recent conversation and research The New York Times Economix Blog asks an awesome questions: “Could economic theory, historically dominated by men, possibly overstate the benefits of risk-taking and competition?”
They follow that up with the acknowledgment that it would be really tough to figure out an easy experiment to get at the answer, but it still seems worth thinking about. I admittedly don’t know much about economics (whatever you can learn from reading some blogs for about six months and a few books that are tangentially related at best), but it’s interesting to think about the role of economic education in the market. What if everyone who is trained in economics and managing massive amounts of money in the market is working off the same flawed view of risk? Crazy to think about a major inefficiency existing in the education system and therefore spreading itself like a virus through the industry.
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Collecting all the artists from the pages we can build a list of artists that have frequently had their scrobbles deleted:
Lady GaGa
Britney Spears
Katy Perry
Rihanna
Paramore
Coldplay
Taylor Swift
Beyoncé
Avril Lavigne
Marc Seales, composer. New Stories. Ernie Watts, saxophone
Alexander Rybak
Black Eyed Peas
Kings of Leon
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Linkin Park
Korn
Miley Cyrus
Jason Mraz
Metro Station
Leona Lewis
Green Day
Evanescence
Amy Whinehouse
Oasis
Nelly Furtado
The Coolness Index « Music Machinery
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— Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
Does anyone still read their RSS feeds?
I don’t.
I do. Every day (well not all of them every day, but I open my reader every day and read).
Over at Slate Chris Wilson runs the numbers on your video getting its big break on YouTube:
On Friday, May 22, I used Web-crawling software to capture the URLs of more than 10,000 YouTube videos as soon as they were uploaded. Over the next month, I checked in regularly to see how many views each video had gotten. After 31 days, only 250 of my YouTube hatchlings had more than 1,000 views—that comes out to 3.1 percent after you exclude the videos that were taken down before the month was up. A mere 25, 0.3 percent, had more than 10,000 views. Meanwhile, 65 percent of videos failed to break 50 views; 2.8 percent had zero views. That’s the good news: Your video is slightly more likely to get more than 1,000 views than it is to get none at all.
Yup, I’ll buy that.
