Food Prices Rise
Has the global food price slide finally stopped? The Economist food price index is up 10 percent over last week.
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Deflation
I’ve never lived through deflation, and don’t much understand its implications, so I’m reading Ben Bernanke’s Essays on the Great Depression. That got me wondering about the current numbers, which the St. Louis FRED site (“Better than Boing Boing!”) helpfully graphs for us: Blue includes energy, red is without. Click through to see it bigger.
Elephant Diaries: The Overhead of Print
Jeff Jarvis, who has (for better or worse) become something of a new media guru stalking the land of the old, caused a bit of a stir in my world when he posted last Saturday on the amazing success of the LA Times news web operation: David Westphal reports an important and historic crossing of …
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Elephant Diaries: The Confusion
There’s a common confusion among “Netizens” about the reason for the mainstream news media’s demise – the notion that newspapers are in decline because they have not done their job of informing the public well enough. Paul Mulshine, reporting from Newark, offers a different explanation: They assume newspapers are going out of business because we …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Water in the Desert Edition
On the lessons from Chaco (ad gated): New Mexico has always been a dry place, at least on the time scales that matter for the ancient civilizations Henderson and Robbins were trying to understand. Our history could be written as a story of people forever searching for a stable water supply to support the cities …
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Stuff Journalists Do On a Friday When No One’s Around to Answer Our Questions
We look up data and muse:
Merry Christmas
Elephant Diaries: The Conversation
Ned Resnikoff with a message many of us in old media are good about hearing: The journalist can no longer afford to keep his audience at a comfortable distance, or ignore the work of others covering the same topic.
Social Media Signposts
A couple of notable signposts I recently passed on the social media highway. The first, a twitter post from a new tweetFriend yesterday: Question for everyone: How do you go about “catching up” on Twitter when you’ve been away for a couple of hours? The second, a link from another tweetFriend to twitTangle: We allow …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Solar Power Edition
New Mexico State regulators approve expansion of rooftop solar incentives: New Mexico regulators Tuesday approved a major expansion of the state’s solar energy program, including provisions for solar installations on Albuquerque businesses. “We’re going to see a flowering of solar in this state,” said Jason Marks, a member of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. …
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