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1. Only 35,000 viewers for Fox Business Network at a typical moment in time; MR content gets a bigger audience than that.
2. The economics of Second Life and Worlds of Warcraft: a discussion and comparison.
3. Atlantic books of the year.
4. Tips for all-you-can-eat buffets.
5. What economists don't understand about cell phone pricing.
6. Angus responds to Scott Sumner.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on November 15, 2009 at 12:57 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Luckily, the owner of that business news network knows how to make money and influence governments, which is why he is now ready to go mano a mano not only with the Google, but the free loading Internet itself.
Thank God that Fox's owner would never make itself the butt of jokes while serving up deceptive imagery, dishonest controversy, and the most unblanced fairness known to man. Otherwise, that entire medial empire, not just a single network, would end up being ignored.
35,000 viewers - why bother? On the other hand, at least they aren't free loading Internet readers - must balance out in someone's books.
Posted by: not_scottbot at Nov 15, 2009 1:07:35 PM
(1) That's b/c you guys have content. (NB: My *only* TV appearance was on Faux Biz News :)
Posted by: David Zetland at Nov 15, 2009 1:22:34 PM
They are all the same people except MR has Bill and Mulp.
I went from having 3 channels to 2 channels thanks to the government. When I get out of government school I'll get cable and Fox will get another viewer. So, maybe prepare to amend those numbers.
Posted by: Andrew at Nov 15, 2009 2:06:42 PM
I wonder if Vanity Fair is a lost cause?
Posted by: anon at Nov 15, 2009 2:15:59 PM
Fox Business Network doesn't appear on my lengthy Rogers cable list, although Aboriginal Peoples Television Network does.
Posted by: Richard Lubbock at Nov 15, 2009 2:42:38 PM
The buffet article would have seemed funnier and more outlandish if I didn't remember college kids strategizing about the proper approach to a Las Vegas buffet years ago.
Posted by: joshu at Nov 15, 2009 4:23:12 PM
The buffet article reminded me of one of my favorite The Onion pieces. Not to mention the fact that I blame my weight gain on the Super China Buffet located conveniently down the street. Who knew that chicken wings and fried rice were so fattening.
Posted by: alan at Nov 15, 2009 4:52:37 PM
The Fed can no more hit a target for nominal income growth, interest rates, or inflation than Soviet Gosplanners did for the "market" clearing number of refrigerators to have in Moscow's stores.
Heil Comrade Bernanke, hero of the United States Socialist Republics!
Posted by: Anne T. Positivist at Nov 15, 2009 4:59:29 PM
If Michael Burlinghame's 2000 pages on Lincoln
constitute the definitive Life for our times,
they must be something. Having read the Sandburg
and Donald Lives (poet and historian
respectively), I mean to embark on this effort
of more than "War and Peace" proportions.
Posted by: Candadai Tirumalai at Nov 16, 2009 9:38:23 AM
What would be the best way to modify the buffet strategy for a buffet that charges by weight?
Posted by: DNW at Nov 16, 2009 2:00:37 PM
great buffet link
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