Here I am at the HBS/MIT Sloan Free/Open Source Software Conference, able to leech off of the Harvard Business School wireless network. We just finished talking about motives for participation in Open Source, and of course for the economists the question is “Why are these people volunteering?” The answer (again for the economists) is that […]
There’s a good deal of talk about the student protests in Iran. It ranges from informative lists of sources to empty point-scoring.
I want to know more about the state of the ruling political classes in Iran. This is because, reflexive cheap shots against the social sciences notwithstanding, the political sociology of revolutions is a […]
Via OxBlog, some snippets from Larry Summers’ Harvard Commencement Speech, including this one:
.. it is not clear to me that we do enough to make sure that our students graduate with the ability to speak cogently, to persuade others, and to reason to an important decision with moral and ethical implications.
“I mean, let’s look at […]
D-Squared attacks the westernized haiku, the stinger missile of bad poetry. But not all haikus in English are so bad (though they may all not be haikus). Exhibit A is by John Cooper Clarke and runs as follows:
To-Con-vey one’s mood
In sev-en-teen syll-able-s
is ve-ry dif-fic.
My only foray into verse, written the Summer before last during a […]
In the news down here right now is a proposal to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border using unmanned aerial drones. Which gives rise to this quote:
Robert Bonner, commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, told the House Select Committee on Homeland Security on Monday that it makes sense to conduct a pilot program […]
Not Geniuses is a new politics-oriented group blog that looks like it’ll make for interesting reading. Early signs are good—eg, any blog that includes me in their list of ‘25 Favorite Blogs’ clearly shows above-average taste.
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