Check out the chart above. It’s from here (AEI) via here (The Atlantic), and basically it captures this idea: since 1978, the cost for college textbooks has exceeded the rising rate for medical services, new home prices, and even inflation. While… Continue Reading
Since college, I was single in central CT and then NYC. Both were hell in their own right. In central CT, I rocked eHarmony for a bit. I met a cool girl who was doing med school at Yale —… Continue Reading
In 1933, Hangar One in Moffett Field was built in northern California; at the time, it was one of the largest free-standing structures in the world. It was meant to hold the USS Macon, the largest airship in the world… Continue Reading
It feels like people have been saying this for years, although it probably hasn’t really been that long: essentially, the media game is changing. Here’s an article from today via The Atlantic, noting that outbound links off of Facebook went from 62… Continue Reading
Amazon Prime had two original shows (well, two main ones) come out in this past cycle — Alpha House and Betas — and while both were pretty good (IMHO), neither had a cultural resonance on par with something like House of Cards (Netflix) or, let’s face… Continue Reading
Foursquare is still a start-up — because it’s been around for a little while, you might assume that a tech giant bought it and rolled it into their services — and it’s still raising money, including $35 million in the… Continue Reading
If Facebook were a person — wrap your head around that for a second — it would now be in fourth grade. It debuted on February 4, 2004, so, by simple math, it turns 10 today. Weird. I’ve written about… Continue Reading
There’s a chart of the peak moments on Twitter during last night’s Super Bowl, via Twitter’s official blog. Overall 24.9 million tweets were sent — last year’s Super Bowl, which was a much closer game, had about 24.1 million tweets sent… Continue Reading