A Blog About Nothing http://www.blogaboutnothing.net Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:43:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 What information asymmetry? http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/09/what-information-asymmetry/ http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/09/what-information-asymmetry/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:43:42 +0000 The Homo Economicus http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/?p=379 I’ve been tweeting for a few days already in @tweetabtnothing. This have caused me to reflect on the way information is transmitted nowadays in the internet. Ten years ago, the problem of the search engines in the internet (do you remember Yahoo! and Altavista?) was not only having a good algorithm for the search but [...]]]> I’ve been tweeting for a few days already in @tweetabtnothing. This have caused me to reflect on the way information is transmitted nowadays in the internet. Ten years ago, the problem of the search engines in the internet (do you remember Yahoo! and Altavista?) was not only having a good algorithm for the search but also creating enough material to offer to the users. There was not a lot of (reliable) information running around.

Today, the amount of information in the web is so large that the big problem is not if the information exists, but it is about what is the best way to organize and find the information we are looking for given our time constraints. That is why sites like Tweeter or Google Reader become so popular: because they allow users to “pull” information from the websites that we are interested into to a specific centralized place in our screens, reducing the time that we spent going from one website to another.

Hence, today’s information asymmetry is less of an issue of not being able to find the information at all, but how efficient are we finding it in the limited time that we have to do so.

]]> http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/09/what-information-asymmetry/feed/ 2 Interesting piece on the econo… http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/09/interesting-piece-on-the-econo/ http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/09/interesting-piece-on-the-econo/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:14:02 +0000 The Homo Economicus http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/09/interesting-piece-on-the-econo/ Interesting piece on the economy of the West Bank: http://bit.ly/9MUmUF

]]> Interesting piece on the economy of the West Bank: http://bit.ly/9MUmUF

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]]> http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/08/amazing-ad-about-israel-http/feed/ 0 The financial crisis hits all … http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/07/the-financial-crisis-hits-all/ http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/07/the-financial-crisis-hits-all/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:11:53 +0000 The Homo Economicus http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/07/the-financial-crisis-hits-all/ The financial crisis hits all of us. Harvard decided to cut on the heating in the library to save some bucks.

]]> The financial crisis hits all of us. Harvard decided to cut on the heating in the library to save some bucks.

]]> http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/07/the-financial-crisis-hits-all/feed/ 0 Is the widespread use of credi… http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/07/is-the-widespread-use-of-credi/ http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/07/is-the-widespread-use-of-credi/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:58:46 +0000 The Homo Economicus http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/07/is-the-widespread-use-of-credi/ Is the widespread use of credit cards (and holding less cash in your pockets) affecting homeless people and beggars who ask for change?

]]> Is the widespread use of credit cards (and holding less cash in your pockets) affecting homeless people and beggars who ask for change?

]]> http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/07/is-the-widespread-use-of-credi/feed/ 0 Why is there always a positive… http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/why-is-there-always-a-positive/ http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/why-is-there-always-a-positive/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:24:03 +0000 The Homo Economicus http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/why-is-there-always-a-positive/ Why is there always a positive (significant) correlation between the temperature outside and the amount of work we have to do on weekends?

]]> Why is there always a positive (significant) correlation between the temperature outside and the amount of work we have to do on weekends?

]]> http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/why-is-there-always-a-positive/feed/ 0 These are some thieves that kn… http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/these-are-some-thieves-that-kn/ http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/these-are-some-thieves-that-kn/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:38:01 +0000 The Homo Economicus http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/these-are-some-thieves-that-kn/ These are some thieves that know about cost-effectiveness analysis: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5327965,00.html

]]> These are some thieves that know about cost-effectiveness analysis: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5327965,00.html

]]> http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/these-are-some-thieves-that-kn/feed/ 0 From Petsy Pies Cafe working: … http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/from-petsy-pies-cafe-working-2/ http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/from-petsy-pies-cafe-working-2/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:27:24 +0000 The Homo Economicus http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/from-petsy-pies-cafe-working-2/ From Petsy Pies Cafe working: Why do people work on cafes? Does consumption increase productivity or is it concentration spillover effects?

]]> From Petsy Pies Cafe working: Why do people work on cafes? Does consumption increase productivity or is it concentration spillover effects?

]]> http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/from-petsy-pies-cafe-working-2/feed/ 0 Tweeting About Nothing! http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/tweeting-about-nothing/ http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/2010/03/06/tweeting-about-nothing/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:00:50 +0000 The Homo Economicus http://www.blogaboutnothing.net/?p=359 As an economist I believe in technology as a mean to increase productivity.

Blogaboutnothing.net is expanding its horizon to the Twitter world through http://twitter.com/tweetabtnothing. This will allow me to be more productive in the blogging business!

Tweets will appear in the blog, but don’t be scared about your mailboxes filling up – you won’t receive [...]]]> As an economist I believe in technology as a mean to increase productivity.

Blogaboutnothing.net is expanding its horizon to the Twitter world through http://twitter.com/tweetabtnothing. This will allow me to be more productive in the blogging business!

Tweets will appear in the blog, but don’t be scared about your mailboxes filling up – you won’t receive an email for every single tweet!

Arrivederci!

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These guys really know about economics.

]]> These New Yorkean couples decided to marry together in the same place using the same limo the same day…

These guys really know about economics.

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