This is Jamie Quint's blog covering technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else interesting.
You can find studies that either prove or disprove NAFTA’s success depending on how you measure, so I guess it is hard to tell who to believe. I’m not intimately familiar with all the details of NAFTA, so I can’t say if its all good. It certainly is possible that parts of it need to […]
There is an idea that has been popping up a lot lately (Mostly in conjunction with Chris Anderson’s book The Long Tail) called the “economy of abundance.” Its the idea that in a digital age when the cost of production nears zero that scarcity (upon which classical economics is based) disappears. This creates some very […]
I’ve already talked about the film and music industry doing this, but now it seems that phone companies want to jump on the bandwagon too. TracPhone has claimed that by unlocking your cell phone for use on any compatible carrier you are a criminal who is hurting the poor and subsidizing terrorism. They claim that […]
The MPAA and RIAA seem to be on the frontpage of Digg at least every week, lawsuits in hand. Most recently for the RIAA it has been suing sites where users post guitar tablature, and now the MPAA is suing a small company that sells iPods pre-loaded with DVD movies (Of course you should have […]
I am currently working on a project for a class titled “Senior Design” it is supposed to be the capstone of my learning experience as an engineer, designed to teach me how to take a project from idea to implementation. The class steps through a series of required documents (project proposal, functional specification, project plan, […]
There are some books that get you really excited, this is one of them. Chris Anderson fells the 80/20 rule and principles of traditional marketing in one fell swoop. The best books are the ones that give you an entirely new perspective on life, and this truly does that. He discusses how the democratization of […]