Levitt supports some economists’ claims that gap between rich and poor has been exaggerated because it only looks at income, not at buying power. Lots of interesting discussion in the comments.

Ed draws an interesting connection between municipal broadband in small towns today and rural electrification in the last century.

The Blackwater web of influence. No surprises.

I’m constantly in search of decent watch bands that don’t crack or break. On the other hand they need to be able to get wet and it looks like this one fits the bill.

Wi-Fi SC memory card. You can configure it to upload pictures via a wi-fi hotspot, so no need to connect to computer. Downside is that it doesn’t work with just any old hotspot; you have to configure it for specifice wi-fi connections.

Ways to make money with your video.

Oh what I could do with this. Wireless video camera on a remote controlled plane. So cool.

Holy crap, George Will has written a column that didn’t require me to consult a dictionary even once AND had me nodding in agreement (mostly).

Fred Wilson posts some excerpts from the annual Churchill Club Dinner. Point that caught my attention: mobile phones are the future “PC”. Already in Europe they account for 8% of credit card transactions.

Ken Sawka writes about companies’ tendency to focus too much on internal info and not enough on external.

Site dedicated to business strategy that features podcasts.

Money art. College kid doodles on US money and posts pictures on flickr.  Kind of cool.  In fact cool enough that over 500,000 people have viewed them.

Parental hell.  Toddler that not only doesn’t nap, but doesn’t sleep at night either.  The kid has a condition that prevents sleep so he’s never slept in his three years of life, and yet the parents persevere.  Wow.

Kevin Phillips has penned a book about the fudging of economic numbers by the powers that be.  Scary stuff.

Good point made about knowledge management/sharing applications.  They are only as good as the users who use them.  Most people in companies are not good about sharing info, so it takes a strong manager to make sure it gets done right.

Seth says that if you sell b2b and you get to the RFP stage you’ve lost. RFP = cheapest wins and the cheapest seller never wins. So true.

Seth hates what his publisher’s copy editor did to his latest work. She “vanilla’d” it and he doesn’t blame her because she was doing her job, but he doesn’t want vanilla so he’s getting ready to break out the “stet”s.

Steve Rubel points to an emerging theory of “Deliberate Practice” and links to what looks like several very interesting pieces about it.

Rubel on El Google’s latest piece of functionality for Google Reader: Note in Reader allows you to share any item from the web so that others who view your reader page can see what you find interesting.

10 tips for effective podcasting.

Tools/techniques to manage your info intake.

A bakery in Ontario uses honor system for all payments and only gets ripped off about 2% of the time. Very similar to story in Freakonomics. To make it easy for customers to add up purchase the bakery rounds all prices to nearest quarter.

Top 50 commercial parodies.

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother.