The demise of this blog was prematurely announced by myself. Its back!
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Shouting in the crowd - A quick guide to social media
Tweeting is like standing in a large square packed with people, all shouting loudly and hoping that someone will reply to them, or at least hear their message and pass it on. Some of the shouting is advertising.
Blogging is like standing in a large square populated by speakers on soapboxes and shouting your story, hoping to attract a crowd, possibly from a nearby blogger. You make deals with some of your fellow speakers to send some of your crowd over to them. Some of the soapboxes are plastered with ads, for which the speaker gets paid.
Google+ is like much like blogging, but the speakers cluster closer together so that they can hear and respond to each other, and their crowds overlap and chat with each other. The speakers do not get paid for any advertising.
Facebook is like sitting in your living room chatting with friends and family. Most people present are not really interested in what the others say, but listen politely and occasionally respond. You are not sure who some of the people in the room are, or why they are there. You may think the conversations are private, but your friends can take notes and tell their friends. Oddly enough, your walls are plastered with ads, for which you do not get paid.
Email is like leaving a notes in your friends' mailboxes mailboxes. You feel offended if they do not respond.
Texting is like attaching a note to a rock and throwing at your friend's house
Monday, October 17, 2011
Moving on...
Technology has moved on. Thus, so have I. From now on, you can find what I would have blogged here on Google+, at
this address: gplus.to/chmoss
If this does not work for me, I will be back here soon :-)
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Senator Shelby - an Economics illiterate - feels that Nobel Prize winners don't understand Economics.
Is it not time we stopped electing demagogues?
From The New York Times....The leading opponent to my appointment, Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the committee, has questioned the relevance of my expertise. “Does Dr. Diamond have any experience in conducting monetary policy? No,” he said in March. “His academic work has been on pensions and labor market theory.”...To the public, the Washington debate is often about more versus less — in both spending and regulation. There is too little public awareness of the real consequences of some of these decisions. In reality, we need more spending on some programs and less spending on others, and we need more good regulations and fewer bad ones.Analytical expertise is needed to accomplish this, to make government more effective and efficient. Skilled analytical thinking should not be drowned out by mistaken, ideologically driven views that more is always better or less is always better. I had hoped to bring some of my own expertise and experience to the Fed. Now I hope someone else can.Peter A. Diamond is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Monday, June 06, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Is this Blog obsolete?
New social media seem to be making personal blogs and websites obsolete. For quick thought that one wants to share with the world, Twitter feels more appropriate. It gets pushed to friends, and broadcast to the world for anyone following a specific subject to see. For more private thoughts for friends only, Facebook is the place. For photographs - Flickr, Smugmug, Facebook, or any of dozens of photo sharing sites are more convenient.
Fragmentation across media is a problem - but it is being addressed by platforms like TweetDeck, Seesmic, and the like.
So - why would anyone (including me) other than business or organizations continue to maintain a blog and a website?
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thursday, April 07, 2011
View from the cheap seats
Friday, February 25, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
History of revolutions is not encouraging
While everyone is cheering the fall of Mubarak, one should consider that many earlier revolutions have had disastrous near term results. The mother of all revolutions - the French Revolution (triggered by the Age of Enlightenment) - resulted in the reign of terror and decades of warfare and revolution in Europe. The Russian Revolution resulted in about a hundred years of oppression of the Russian and other people. The Iranian Revolution has resulted in ongoing oppression of the Iranian people. The liberation of African and South American colonies mostly resulted in African Democracy - One Man, One Vote, One Time. Some successes, to be sure, but mostly failures. The American Revolution worked for the people of the original 13 Colonies - maybe the only example that worked for the people concerned. The outcome of the likely wave of revolutions in Muslim North Africa and the Near and Middle East is uncertain. I hope that they will be more peaceful and Democratic than their predecessors in Europe, Africa, and South America. I am not optimistic. ---
Clive - on my iPhone - pardon autocorrect induced typos.
Clive - on my iPhone - pardon autocorrect induced typos.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
The Laundry Room
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The first Spaghetti Western at Chicago Lyric Opera?
See the full review at chicagotheaterblog.com
Was this the first Spaghetti Western? We saw it Wednesday afternoon. Not Puccini's best, but entertaining.
Monday, January 24, 2011
I have to get to one of the the coasts!
via congress.org
Green = no health care unless you don't need it! Red = help those who need help. The insurance companies win this round of posturing - but thankfully it will go nowhere.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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