The Secret to a Successful Blog
A new study analyzes reciprocal attention in blogging. The authors conclude that “the activity of bloggers is found to be related to the size and level of reciprocity within a blogger’s network.” The study also finds that bloggers who don’t participate in reciprocity are punished with a lower number of readers. In other words, the Read More »
Is Freakonomics Driving Unemployment?
Well, probably not. But at least one person has lost her job — albeit not an actual full-time, paying job — in a fracas over Freakonomics and other books. A few years back, a school-board member in suburban Chicago named Leslie Pinney wanted to pull nine books from the high school’s approved reading list. Among Read More »
Tent City Portraits
Tent cities have been cropping up across the country and around the world. The Times‘ Jim Wilson recently put together this series of photos of tent city life outside Fresno, California. (NOTE: This post originally linked to a different set of photos which the photographer has since requested be removed.) [%comments] Read More »
Bus-Riders of the World Unite!
Remarkable facts from a new paper by James Habyarimana and William Jack of the Center for Global Development: The World Health Organization (2004) reported that 1.2 million people died from road traffic injuries in 2002, 90 percent in low- and middle-income countries, about the same number as die of malaria. In addition, between 20 and Read More »
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