Archive for August, 2012

Remembering What the Red Queen Said: The Luck of the Draw

In related news: 1. Luck vs. Skill in Texas Hold ‘Em. Earlier this week, in U.S. vs. DiCristina, a federal judge in New York ruled that “skill, when sufficiently honed, makes the difference between winning and losing in poker.” http://is.gd/jwEiOL at p. 118. The judge, apparently persuaded by all sorts of graphs […]

Facebook, Meet Apple; Apple, Meet Facebook

I’m an old dog when it comes to Facebook. I, along with a lot of 50-somethings, used it quite a bit a few years ago, mostly to connect with people from our highschool days back in the ’70s. It was great for catching up with long-lost old friends. That lasted about half […]

On the Rarified Fringe of the Financial Media Trail with Blodget and EPI

In the great unraveling of the Internet bubble in the year 2000, the rise and fall of Henry Blodget was among the biggest, gossipy’est, schedenfreude’iest stories of all. In 2003, under allegations of publicly touting the very same high-flying Internet stocks that he was simultaneously selling for his own account, […]

Apples to Apples to Ice Cream Trucks: The Current Numeric Verdict is In

Much has been made this week of Apple becoming the most valuable company in history (as long as you ignore inflation). One comparo really caught me eye, though, which is this pull-quote, which had lain entombed within a New Yorker-length article in Vanity Fair until Forbes was kind enough to pull out this pull-quote […]

A Long-Writer Cozies Up to 140 Characters and 500 Words

And so it begins. In March 2009 I grabbed @JFRQ, my first Twitter handle, and immediately posted the oh-so-neither-profound-nor-interesting tweet, “Just established myself on Twitter.” A few months after grabbing @JFRQ (did you know that the genesis of the entire JFRQ naming milieu rests on how it was always easy […]

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