Why is there no warning about conflict of interest here? Everytime the Washington Post opens its mouth about Higher Education Policy of any kind, it should be known that they are owners of the $2.3 billion business Kaplan, a major profiteerer in the War on Poor Students...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post_Company

Hi,

My counter(?) hypothesis is that the long tail of articles grows most, and gets no to little proof-reading. Therefore I'd love to see the results normalized by (log maybe) of Page Views (from http://stats.grok.se/ ). I've also a few doubts about the quality of randomly sampled pages in general, and also whether the growth of jargon (which may or may not end up as spelling-errors has increased).

Excellently interesting piece though! Great work.

Winton

There's a related study about how succesful managers in modern corporations are closer to pyschopaths than average.

http://www.medkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/alternative/43595/Question-Authority

Its unusuable. Thank god my secondary account still has the old school interface.

Netflix had been doing great, especially with the grouping multiple seasons of DVDs finally, and then they pull a stupid stunt like this. What were they thinking.

I wish to god whoever decided that making websites should only display well on iPads comes to a swift and painful death.

W

I'd prefer if you called it a Plutarchy please.

"Plutocracy is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth. The combination of both plutocracy and oligarchy is called plutarchy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy :-)

And don't forget the TEA we shipped you guys...

Pictures from ww2 of inflatable decoy tanks:

http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=inflatable+tanks+ww2&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=wU2zTOqDCIn6sAO2lYyyDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDwQsAQwAw&biw=1178&bih=718

Plenty of experiments have shown that market knowledge doesnt help much. The only place it really helps is if you are an insider, and in which case you are likely to go to prison :)

As someone who has family in the public policy business I know that there are generally two sides in these debates - the corporate side and the public side. Usually there's one or more non-profit that leads the public interest comment-gathering, regulation reading/wrangling and lobbies on our behalf (ie read not the corporations behalf).

I see nothing in this discussion so far about a coordinated campaign to seriously propose pro-Net-Neutrality regulation. CREDO has been posting some stuff, as have EFF I think, but is there an umbrella organization that is organizing opposition to a corporate reign of this area?

Incidentally, despite all the bribery and corruption, a lot of lobbying is simply about who has the ear of the right Senatorial and Congressional aides, and advising them about the difficult issues on a debate. The challenge for the public is having an organized lobbying ability on every issue. Too often its just the corporations who have the resources to make their case.

W

mod this up. I hadn't gotten the implication of the exploit either until now.