globalization, art, culture, technology, etc.
Exxon’s profits were nearly $90,000 a minute over the quarter, but it was less than Wall Street had expected. Exxon’s shares fell 4.6 percent, to close at $80.43. (The company calculates that it pays $274,000 a minute in taxes and spends $884,000 a minute to run the business.)
Vanity Fair maps the blogosphere. Part of it, anyway.
This graph from the NYT is interesting. Why do information and communications technologies tend to be adopted more quickly than, say,washing machines? Is one a luxury and the other a necessity? One is single purpose, the other multipurpose? Higher value? Moore’s law? What of the lag in telephone adoption, versus the rapid spread of radio, way back when?
