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http://techdirt.com/articles/20070508/013121.shtml

If Resources Aren't Scarce, Why Do You Need A Market? websnapr

"When the resources aren't scarce, you don't need them to be efficiently allocated. They're infinitely available and allocation no longer matters because everyone who wants it can have it."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1590440,00.html

Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free websnapr

"It might seem very odd to look to a long-dead Russian anarchist for business advice. But Peter Kropotkin's big idea--that there are important human motivations beyond what he called "reckle
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070215/002923.shtml

Saying You Can't Compete With Free Is Saying You Can't ... websnapr

"Anyone who says that is effectively saying that they can't figure out a way to add value that will make someone buy something above marginal cost -- but it's no different if the good is free or
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 2 Users, more info save
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070125/004949.shtml

Step One To Embracing A Lack Of Scarcity: Recognize Wha ... websnapr

"It's interesting to note that it wasn't horse-drawn carriage makers who became successful automobile companies." Seriously, read what this guy is saying. He's talking a lot of sense.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070118/183340.shtml

Can't Compete With Free, Or Just Won't? websnapr

"...just remember, the next time a big-media bigshot says "you can't compete with free", they really mean "I can't be bothered to try competing with free"."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070118/013310.shtml

Infinity Is Your Friend In Economics websnapr

"So the trick to embracing infinite goods isn't in limiting the infinite nature of them, but in rethinking how you view them. Instead of looking at them as goods to sell, look at them as inputs i
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/11/the_rise_of_fre.html

The Rise of Freeconomics websnapr

"It's a big day for Moore's Law. I'm not sure anyone else has noticed this, but by my calculations we have in the past few months reached the penny-per-MIPS* milestone."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 2 Users, more info save
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1952840,00.html

Acceding expectations websnapr

"On January 1, Romania will join the European Union. Matthew Tempest went to Sibiu in the Carpathian mountains to see if the former communist state is ready to join Brussels - and whether the EU
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://techdirt.com/articles/20061119/221632.shtml

Can't Let People Learn If They Don't Pay Up First websnapr

"...if these book publishers really think that they can't provide significant enough value to make someone pay, they shouldn't be in the publishing business at all -- which, perhaps, is what the
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://techdirt.com/articles/20061115/020157.shtml

The Economics Of Abundance Is Not A Moral Issue websnapr

"Economics is not a moral issue. It doesn't care about anyone's "right" to make money from their creative output... and neither should you. The idea that anyone automatically has a righ
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.gatt.org/wharton.html

WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa websnapr

"World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt announced the creation of a WTO initiative for "full private stewardry of labor'..." This is so unbelievably, horribly wrong.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/books/review/30donadio.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=review

Backlist to the Future websnapr

The New York Times talks about the Long Tail as applied to book publishing. Food for thought. Link via DeepGenre.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/07/death-of-the-fa.html

Death of the farmer's market websnapr

Good advice for any small business to keep in mind. When the market grows it tends to become less focused and useful to the original providers.
>30 days ago by dreadpal, 1 User, more info save
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/articles/a2003-02-21-mag-writers_guidelines.html

Writer's Guidelines websnapr

AARP The Magazine, the world’s largest circulation magazine, serves the needs and interests of people 50 and over. Editorial topics include money and finance, work and retirement, health and fitness,
>30 days ago by typeamom, 1 User, more info save
http://www.commonties.com/blog/submit-a-story/

Common Ties » Submit a Story websnapr

Help guide a journalist and her producer and twin brother on an interactive tour of the lower 48 states. Stories are filed in the form of audio slideshows, photo essays and text.
>30 days ago by typeamom, 1 User, more info save
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