Archive for January 30th, 2009

I didn’t know much about Dale Harkins last summer, but what I did know I didn’t like.  Harkins had purchased the Irving Theater, effectively putting the kibosh on plans to turn the former movie palace into an all ages live music venue. Though he lived in my neighborhood, I only had secondhand recon. That is [...]

Newspapers haven’t always been behind the eight ball in terms of new media. In fact, in the late ’90s, several newspapers had fantastic websites. The problem was they couldn’t find ways to make money from the web (or ‘monetize’ it as people like to say) so when the dot com bubble burst, they regressed. The [...]

You make logical decisions right, based on a cold, rational analysis of facts and likely outcomes? Think again. Dan Ariely’s engaging book explores the emerging field of behavior economics – of which Ariely is a professor at MIT – for the layperson. The researcher shares results of experiments he oversaw at several major universities [...]