90% CrudSure, 90% of weblogs are crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.Detroit Roundup- March 22, 2007 Houses cheaper than cars in Detroit "At least 16 Detroit houses up for sale on Sunday sold for $30,000 or less. A boarded-up bungalow on the city's west side brought $1,300. A four-bedroom house near the original Motown recording studio sold for $7,000." Even better is the MetaFilter discussion about that link (and others): Will The Last Person To Leave Detroit Please Turn Out The Lights Congressman: Parts Of Iraq Are As Safe As Detroit What's great about this is that the analogy is...http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/local/detroit_roundup.php inkling Markets 1 Week Later- March 5, 2007 The inkling markets I started last week have been making progress. While I can't speak authoritatively about why the participants are investing the way they are, I can always make some wild-assed-guesses. In the OpenID market, the biggest gainers are Wikipedia and Yahoo!. Wikipedia announced that they're working on OpenID, which sounds like it's a lock. But you'll notice that talk was given at the end of April 2006, and since they haven't done it yet, it's possible that they won't make the.http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/geekery/inkling_markets_1_week_later.php SXSW Interactive 2007- March 4, 2007 I'm registered, have my plane tickets, and my conference schedule picked out. I'm going to SXSW Interactive! I've wanted to go for years, but it was only recently that the planets aligned and it became feasible for me to make it to Austin. The first order of business is to let everyone know so that I can finally meet a bunch of the people I only know online. I've also never been to a conference of this sort (I went to some Def Cons in the late 90's, but I imagine this is a bit different).http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/geekery/sxsw_interactive_2007.php |