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Entries from February 2006

Why another blog?

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Introductory

I promise not to use the phrases Web 2.0 or “long tail” intentionally in this blog. How about that?
I’ve been fascinated by information all my life, and serendipitously been allowed to work in the information sector for most of it. The Moore-Metcalfe-Gilder Laws continue to have their effect, and with telephony becoming software, I feel [...]

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Opening shots

February 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Introductory

Economic models that succeed tend to take advantage of the abundances as well as the shortages that characterise a particular economic era. Traditionally, the primary factors of production used to be land, labour and capital; much of this was in “institutional” rather than individual hands, and as a result, attempts to create efficiencies in the [...]

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