Sunday, January 25, 2004

Education Is No Protection. The offshore outsourcing of white-collar jobs is a big long-term threat to the U.S. economy. By Bob Herbert. [New York Times: Opinion]   "We didn't mean cut our costs!" 11:20:10 PM    comment []

Useit.Com: How Big is the Difference Between Websites? I recently read through a huge pile of reports on usability studies. My main goal was to compute statistics about usability project outcomes for my three-day camp on usability in practice to help frame participants' expectations for the studies they'll run when they get back home. [Tomalak's Realm] 8:45:53 PM    comment []

Gabriel and Eno Start Digital Music Artist Union. An anonymous reader writes "We have long heard stories about how the record companies cheat their own artists with audit techniques that would make Enron ... [Slashdot] [Ted Ritzer: Free Music] 8:45:00 PM    comment []

Icing all morning. Now some snow. Going . . . nowhere, today. Tomorrow? Maybe nowhere, too. 12:26:29 PM    comment []

Time to Slay the Inequality Myth? Not So Fast. A new book argues that salaries have not grown more unequal over the last few decades. This striking claim, however, turns out not to be true. By David Leonhardt. [New York Times: Business] 6:34:15 AM    comment []

Hoder Q&A on the current situation in Iran recently posted, from an interview with O Estado de S. Paulo. Includes answers to things like do you think your country had improvements related to economic situation, international relations and civil rights? Is it possible Iran turn itself in a democratic (in the ways viewed by western eyes) place? What do you miss of Iran? How does the treatment given to women damage the country? why reformist's protest didn't get support of Iran's population? 6:31:35 AM    comment []

The Tyranny of Copyright?. Is copyright law curbing our freedoms and making it harder to create anything new? This could be the first new social movement of the century. By Robert S. Boynton. [New York Times: Technology] 6:16:16 AM    comment []

Yoz, via Cory: Life on the pro Dance Dance Revolution circuit. 6:14:25 AM    comment []

Adelphi Savors Its Rebound. The new century has been kinder than the old one at the Garden City campus. By Linda F. Burghardt. [New York Times: Education] 6:05:19 AM    comment []

SUNDAY COMICS [Begging To Differ] 6:03:04 AM    comment []

Peer-To-Peer. Theory behind file sharing [Cool Tools] [Ted Ritzer: Free Music] 6:01:20 AM    comment []