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So Much For “Revenue Neutral” 26 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Color me shocked: Student loans: New rates make $700 million more for government A new law regulating interest rates on student loans will put more than $700 million in additional profit into the fede...
Not as Unemployed as They Think 23 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am
Has the unemployment rate started to move back up? Gallup says it has: According to a daily tracking poll from Gallup, the nation’s unemployment and underemployment rate has jumped significantly in th...
The Entrepreneurial Classroom 22 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
We recently looked at an app that lets kids create their own games. The founder of the Incubator School, which opened last week in Los Angeles, wants to take it up a notch from there. Already on the ...
Startups and Jobs 20 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
From Thomas Frey: There is some cause for alarm in the startup world. On the whole, young companies destroy more jobs than they create. That’s because so many of them fail. But there is some solace: ...
Two Years Later 20 Aug 2013 | 08:53 am
This story needs a follow-up. Two years ago we were surprised (or were we?) to learn that a substantial percentage of first-year students at a fine state university in Indiana had no clear idea why th...
When Promotional Events Go Wrong 16 Aug 2013 | 07:35 pm
Kid I’ve been in this marketing game for a long time and I’ve pretty much seen it all. So you had a promotional event. So some people got shot — look, it happens. The real issue here isn’t that people...
Posting More than You Think 13 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
Are you posting photos online? You may be sharing more information than you want to…
From One Second to the Next 10 Aug 2013 | 01:10 am
Filmmaker Werner Herzog has created a short documentary that captures the devastating effects of driving while texting. This is transparency at its most brutal. It’s heartbreaking to watch, but everyb...
Punishment Worse than the Crime 9 Aug 2013 | 03:01 am
So here’s the deal. A psychology professor at the University of New Mexico sent out the following fat-shaming tweet: Dear obese PhD applicants: if you didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, ...
The Bell You CAN Unring 6 Aug 2013 | 08:45 pm
Back when I first started this blog I write a piece about how difficult a bell can be to un-ring in the digital age because of the magnificent infrastructure we have created which enables information ...
