Monthly Archives: February 2009

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Goodbye, America! It Was Fun While It Lasted

Ann Coulterwww.townhall.comWednesday, February 11, 2009 It’s bad enough when illiterate jurors issue damages awards in the billions of dollars because they don’t grasp the difference between a million and a billion. Now it turns out the Democrats don’t know the difference between a million and a trillion. Why not make the “stimulus bill” a kazillion […]...
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The Online Generation Gap Narrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2009 Emarketer Safe assumption: Teens are online.Unsafe: Retirees aren’t. About nine out of 10 US consumers ages 12 to 24 use the Internet. That is not surprising. But more than one-half of those ages 65 to 69 are online as well, and Internet-using 70-to-74-year-olds make up 45% of people that age, according to […]...
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The Economics of Giving It Away

By Chris AndersonThe Wall Street Journal Over the past decade, we have built a country-sized economy online where the default price is zero — nothing, nada, zip. Digital goods — from music and video to Wikipedia — can be produced and distributed at virtually no marginal cost, and so, by the laws of economics, price […]...