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Paying by sharing is a bad idea

By Joshua Gans On May 16, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Limits

From Katherine St Asaph, an observation that AdWeek have set up what she calls a ‘trollwall’ for some articles (see her screenshot to the left). The idea is that you can read the full article if you share it.

While this seems like [...]

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What if TV networks embraced ad skipping?

By Joshua Gans On May 14, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Limits

For decades, there have been some consumers that would go to excessive lengths to skip ads. They would record shows on VCRs (by today’s standards a complicated affair). They purchased DVRs. They resorted to piracy where ad-free versions of shows could be found. Overall, they engaged, not only in the program [...]

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Do not cut the American Community Survey: an editorial.

On May 13, 2012 By Shane Greenstein
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The House Republicans recently voted to remove funding from the US Census. According to news reports, this action was motivated by a mix of Tea-Party symbolism and the legacy of a long-standing fight with the Census.

This post will present a short editorial. While I have sympathy for part of the [...]

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Why Facebook needs to be baked into mobile OS

On May 9, 2012 By Joshua Gans
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I’ve written before that successful social networks are geared towards encouraging sharing. In its desktop mode, Facebook achieved this by virtue of simplicity and a default group of circles. But in the mobile space it is struggling and I think I know the reason why. There are two broad activities [...]

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The Next Digital Revolution in Education? Grading

On May 9, 2012 By Joshua Gans
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It seems that you can’t go anywhere these days without seeing a new pretender to a digital revolution in education. Just this week, Harvard and MIT launched an online initiative, edX. It follows Stanford University’s digital education initiatives and the start-ups it has spawned, CourseRA and Udacity. Apple (with iTunes [...]

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Game Theory and the Future of Online Education

On May 7, 2012 By Joshua Gans
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Over at Forbes on my Parentonomics blog I recount the experience my 11 year old son had taking Stanford’s Game Theory course. My take-a-away is that designing online content and also assessment is a real challenge and it is unlikely that normal course content will simply translate over [...]

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Free Podcasts

On May 6, 2012 By Shane Greenstein
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Some folk like to read blogs. Some folk like to listen to podcasts. Why not give everyone the option to do what they prefer? Now it is possible to read or listen to many of the essays that appear in my IEEE Micro Economics column (and appear here in digitopoly).

The IEEE deserves [...]

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Workshop Announcement on Scholarly Communication and Open Science

On May 2, 2012 By Joshua Gans
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Just a conference announcement related to the Sloan Foundation program I co-direct … for those interested.

NBER Workshop on Scholarly Communication, Open Science and Its Impact

This workshop is part of a Sloan Foundation program co-directed by Joshua Gans and Fiona Murray. This year’s workshop will focus on scholarly communication, its [...]

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What a really good search engine would look like

On May 2, 2012 By Joshua Gans
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[HT: Geekdad] Or what Facebook might do. Just don’t ask about happiness.

 

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Competition for Research on Smart Disclosure

On May 1, 2012 By Joshua Gans
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Just an alert to interested people (especially grad students, current or newly minted) of a competition for proposals for research into smart disclosure. What is smart disclosure?

“Smart Disclosure” policies help consumer markets work more competitively by providing decision-makers with convenient, computable, and cogent data–both about products or services and also [...]

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