From the monthly archives:

November 2009

November 2009

The strangest Thanksgiving story ever told

by Jerry Ellig on November 25, 2009 View Comments

The Internet even makes it possible for me to find Larry the Cable Guy’s “The Story of the First Thanksgiving as Told by my Drunk Grandpa” in about 2 seconds.

An Incomplete Solution for Google’s Mega Library

by Gabriel Okolski on November 24, 2009 View Comments

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Google’s revised settlement with authors for its book database may hurt consumers by giving Congress the authority to approve competition and narrowing the scope of works to be made available.

Amazon Reviews, Social Media, and Business

by Stan Tsirulnikov on November 23, 2009 View Comments

How to lose friends and alienate customers with bad DRM.

Got Capital? If there is a will, there is a way.

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on November 19, 2009 View Comments

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Is the restriction of bank lending the end of capital availability?

The Opera Ain’t Over til E-Commerce Sings

by Jerry Ellig on November 18, 2009 View Comments

If you really want to understand this year’s retail sales picture, wait for statistics about the online shopping that happens the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Airline Fees: Uncle Sam Wants His Cut

by Gabriel Okolski on November 17, 2009 View Comments

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A Congressional inquiry in baggage fees is only likely to increase the prices that some consumers pay for airfare, regardless of whether the ancillary charges stay in place.

John Wonderlich on government transparency and accountability

by Jerry Brito on November 17, 2009 View Comments

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John Wonderlich, the Policy Director at the Sunlight Foundation, discusses the government transparency movement. The discussion also turns to the work of the Sunlight Foundation and Lawrence Lessig’s recent article on “naked transparency.”

Why would Yahoo! delete Geocities?

by Jerry Brito on November 16, 2009 View Comments

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Yahoo! recently deleted all the data from its discontinued Goecities service rather than keeping it backed up somewhere. In the process they erased much of the history of the early web.

Would Paying for Blogs Make You Happier?

by Stan Tsirulnikov on November 13, 2009 View Comments

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Could the abundance of free content on the internet lead to an “irrationally” large amount of information consumption?

The fate of Peer-to-Peer lending

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on November 12, 2009 View Comments

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Why aren’t micro-lending organizations reaching their potential?