freezes over
“I know it’s only the Potomac, Senator, but that’s getting close!”
video content economics
Content is glamorous. Stars, drama, action, romance, suspense. But if you want to understand how Internet video distribution will evolve, you’ve gotta get your nose into dull facts and the dismal science. Video content has little relevance to aggregate patterns of video consumption. Growth in discretionary (leisure) time is closely correlated with time spent watching [...]
Tagged: advertising, video
organizational diversity in information infrastructure
Providing network infrastructure need not be limited to a choice between the model of public roads and the model of selling soap. The provision of public roads depends on market transactions for a variety of goods (construction worker services, trucks, asphalt, etc). Selling soap depends on a variety of public services (money supply provision, law [...]
Tagged: libraries
clarification
In an important statement, one of Duke’s famous alumni has clarified details regarding the recent controversy. Complete video coverage below. Click To Play (if you don’t see the video, try here)
science in action: the trireme Olympias
A great way to study the ancient Greek trireme is to build one. Frank Welsh, a trireme enthusiast and funder, John Morrison, an ancient historian, and John Coates, a former British naval architect, established in 1982 the Trireme Trust with the following objectives: To resolve a long-standing controversy about the design of this historically important [...]
Tagged: antiquity
new frontiers in advertising business models
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, recently honored as Bureaucrat of the Month, has identified advertising-funded business models as Microsoft’s top concern: Today, the big phenomenon that we can embrace – the big fat thing for us to think about, embrace, endorse, compete with – is what does ad-funding mean? Whether it is for search, or whether it [...]
Tagged: advertising
reality sports
Forget about the Tour de France, the World Cup, and the Super Bowl. More extreme than extreme sports are reality sports. Check out, right here, exclusive coverage of the 2006 Galbi Brothers’ 800-Meter Challenge. Will the Duke Varsity Letterman once again lose? Will the Lanterne Rouge Star once again lead the field? You’ve gotta watch [...]
Carnival of the Bureaucrats #7
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer, is an inspiration to bureaucrats world-wide. The recipient last year of a 25-year service pin from Microsoft, Ballmer has been in the middle of immensely important developments. With Microsoft’s software, a large chain of managers can rapidly exchange edits to a document describing the feature set of an animated [...]
reverse caching saves trees
Energy is a significant cost of running data centers. Over a three-year operating period at typical U.S. power costs, a server’s acquisition cost is about equal to its power cost.[1] One documented estimate puts the annual power cost of U.S. data centers at two billion dollars in 2003.[2] IT power costs should be incorporated into [...]
Adrienne #1!
The pinnacle of life. [if you don't see the video, try here] Originally the video had a better soundtrack that used two short excerpts from copyrighted songs from albums that I purchased several years ago. Since the use of short excerpts of a copyrighted song in a non-commercial video made available on a personal website [...]