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The social structure of news

On Mar 15, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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With the looming loss of Google Reader, there has been a rethink of “what is it good for anyway?” Some felt that RSS has long been a poor medium for reading. They long for formatting that is consistent with the way an author intended. There have been some Google Reader alternatives that [...]

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With Google Reader gone, is Google Scholar next?

On Mar 14, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Yesterday, Google announced its “spring cleaning” whereby it, usually, discards products most people had long thought discarded. Usually the products are Blackberry ones that don’t really yield controversy. A few years back, Google retired Buzz which was generally regarded as a failure.

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Will Cory Doctorow buy an iPad now?

On Mar 11, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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When the iPad first came out in 2010, Cory Doctorow said he would not buy one and advised others not to do so either. He had lots of reasons but for this post I want to address Reason No.1:

Incumbents made bad revolutionaries
Relying on incumbents to [...]

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Consumer Surplus in the Online Economy

On Mar 11, 2013 By Shane Greenstein
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The Economist sponsors a blog called Free exchange. This week Free exchange solicited posts to complement an article in the magazine that discusses challenges measuring the consumer surplus generated by the internet. They invited experts in the field to comment on the piece and on related research. I made a contribution [...]

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The Microsoft “Sequester”

On Mar 7, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Here is  a definition of “sequester” that isn’t the real definition but what we now talk about. A sequester is a situation where a party (or parties) agree to a horribly painful and costly course of action to themselves in the event that they do not take a certain action. For [...]

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The Sullied Media Model

On Feb 26, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Andrew Sullivan is one of the world’s best known and well-read bloggers. Or is he a journalist. I have no idea. Nor do I really care. He writes things and people read them.

Up until recently, Sullivan has worked on mainstream publishing platforms like Time and The Atlantic and then [...]

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Does The Magazine Want to be Shared?

On Feb 25, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Macro Arment, the founder of one of my favourite apps, Instapaper, launched a magazine in Apple’s Newstand app last year called The Magazine. Thusfar, The Magazine has received much discussion with regard to two things. First, it was accessible via an app-only subscription of $1.99 per month (there [...]

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Gesture control and the QWERTY effect

On Feb 25, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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How we interact with devices is evolving. We started with the keyboard for a century before we added the mouse. On mobile devices, it was the keypad so much so that I remember a tech exec playing futurologist to me around the turn of the century and claiming that the kids [...]

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A Legend in Economics Passes

On Feb 20, 2013 By Shane Greenstein
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By Professor Thomas N. Hubbard, Senior Associate Dean, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Armen Alchian died yesterday.  He was 98.

Many economists of my generation did not know Armen personally.  However, signs of his work are pervasive in the field.  There are many good examples of this in the research and teaching of many [...]

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BBC Talk

On Feb 19, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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The video stream from the BBC Seminar on the Economics of Broadcasting that I discussed a few weeks ago is now up. You can access it here. My talk is the third on the list and it is entitled (this will surprise no one), Television Wants [...]

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