Un nou episod din “Cum ajunge lumea pe blogul meu”

“Pareri despre Imagine a Romaniei din 1989 pana astazi-2006” (nu imi dau seama daca ai scris cu piciorul stang sau cu cel drept)

“gary becker irational” (economist de frunte la ASE- IP-ul corespunde- clar)

“europa intr-o economie mondiala bipolara” (si limba de lemn…)

“blog sebi” (sa vezi ca eu sunt primul pe lista…)

“Miyahee lyrics” (tipul asta din Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam- asa apare in web visit tracker-ul meu- e foarte insistent: man, this song is a piece of shit, capisci?-data

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Trust me, I’m an Economist!

A recent post of Tyler Cowen on Marginal Revolution indicates three clips on YouTube from the Undercover Economist tv show on BBC2 with Tim Harford. I thought everybody could benefit from watching them:

Tyler Cohen’s post mentioned above, on long-distance relationships, is very interesting in itself and it links to other great advices by Tim Harford in his Dear Economist column from The Financial Times.

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Blogging, fame and fortune

I single out two articles I’ve read recently about the new trend among bloggers and how blogging might evolve in an industry:

First an article from The Economist about “Blogging for a living”
An excerpt:

On her blog, called Dooce, Heather Armstrong chronicles her life as a disenchanted Mormon in Salt Lake City, her former career as a high-flying web designer in Los Angeles, her pregnancy and postpartum depression, and so on.
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Petitie Ad Astra

Ad Astra revine cu o petitie pentru rezolvarea unor probleme majore in managementul cercetarii stiintifice din Romania (petitie pe care tocmai am semnat-o si eu). Evident, in mod normal o asemenea petitie ar fi redundanta pentru ca toate cerintele acestea fac parte din standardul organizarii cercetarii stiintifice intr-un regim civilizat.
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