Paul Allen is one of my favorite blog reads, and today, he’s got me thinking. Why?
We also face a new selfishness, a new hedonism in the developed world. One manifestation of this is the lowest fertility rate in the history of the world. Europes population is disappearing because the desire to reproduce and pass on values and opportunities to children seems to be disappearing.
China has similar problems headed its way because the male population outnumbers the female population pretty significantly. China’s missing girls - MSNBC.
‘Missing girls’
From a relatively normal ratio of 108.5 boys to 100 girls in the early 80s, the male surplus progressively rose to 111 in 1990, 116 in 2000, and is now is close to 120 boys for each 100 girls at the present time, according to a Chinese think-tank report.
If you multiply that by just 10, you get 1200 boys for every 1000 girls. But in China, it gets much worse when you take into account that there are 1 billion people there. For every 1 million girls, you have 1.2 million boys. That’s 200,000 extra boys per million people. If you thought it was hard to meet a nice girl before, what’s to come in China?
This skateboarding video is just incredible. When I was a teen, skateboarding videos were few. Today, they are plentiful. So how does a video production house make a skateboarding video that gets noticed these days? They take away the skateboards. Watch for yourself. (Need a cheap skateboard? - try buying blank decks).
A good friend of mine just launched his first endeavor into the world of eCommerce. He’s selling skateboards. To be specific, he is selling blank decks, blank wheels, griptape, bearings and hardware.
And, if you need some great Web design, he does that too.
“Building permits, seen as a measure of how home builders view the market, sank to an annual rate of 2.07 million from 2.22 million in September, the biggest drop in six years. “
How many people really use RSS? I have tried it. I don’t like it. I like the interaction of going to the actual website. It’s more human. I don’t think it will catch on with the masses. So, is there a tactic that will actually get people to use it more? As of August, Forrester Research said only 2 percent of U.S. households were using RSS feeds. - Percentage of RSS use.
Now here’s the caveat — that doesn’t include all the people who may be using RSS (for example, through My Yahoo!) and don’t realize it. Young consumers between the ages of 12-21 were more likely to be using RSS — 5% of online young consumers say they use RSS.
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Sorry Seth. I’m still not signing up. I like to see the bright orange colors and your bald head everytime I visit the Seth Godin Blog. It’s not just about the easy access, its about the experience.
“A rise in housing prices in an area has no significant impact on the average wage of the brokers in that market. It’s the oldest line in the economics book: No barriers to entry mean no big profits.”
EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has launched a blogger’s rights campaign.
“EFF has won fights to require the cops to get a warrant before reading your email, to knock out parts of the PATRIOT Act, to kill frivolous copyright and trademark suits aimed at silencing criticism and innumerable other critical pieces of the struggle to keep the Internet free and open.”
Sometimes. Somtimes mind you, I think some bloggers use their influence in a poor manner. But, for the most part, they have changed the way information is disseminated . . . in a good way.
EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has launched a blogger’s rights campaign.
