May 17, 2007

Updated: Smoking and the Representativeness Heuristic

A great example of the representativeness heuristic at work:The more a high school student overestimates the percentage of people in the general population who smoke cigarettes, the more likely he or she will be to smoke, according to a recent...

IPTV Drives M&A Surge?

Along with my IPO resurgence thesis, one of my favorite 2007 themes is the Return o' Telecom, or at least of some parts of that broken business. Further food for thought on that theme comes from a new iSuppli report...

Looking for Better Stock Widget

Question for folks: Anyone have a favorite stock/new info widget? I use Yahoo/Konfabulator's quote widget now and then, but I don't like that prices are unconnected to recent news, and I don't like how much wasted white space there is.Some...

The Broken Bittorrent Market

For all the built-in liquidity in the market for "shared" media -- music, games, television, movies, anime, etc. -- it is interesting to see that torrent providers and consumers are fairly seriously out of sync.The figure on the left below...