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Archive for March de 2009

This post “Voice of the People Visualized: White house Open for Questions made into wordles” is now located at OpenGovBlog.Org.

Economics, according to wikipedia, is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Notice money is not mentioned. But the current theories of economics socio-economic (Kondratieff (Kondratiev), Schumpeter, Kuznets) , fiscal-economic (Keynesian / Monetarist) and political-economic (Libertarian/Austrian) theories are all based on monetary markets.
Well that makes sense because MOST [...]

Exploring the economic impact of social media

Posted by: Ken Fischer in: ● March 24, 2009

I am not an economist, but sometimes I play one on this blog. Why? Turns out understanding economics is important. Feel free to correct or argue the points I make.
Socioeconomic (Kondratieff (Kondratiev), Schumpeter, Kuznets) theory seems to be driving the current deflationary cycle more so than fiscal economic (Keynesian / Monetarist) or political economic [...]

This post “Policy, Procedure and Effort as Data: Mapping Government as the first Step to Reinventing it” is now located at OpenGovBlog.Org.

Could large scale cloud computing become a economic security risk?

Posted by: Ken Fischer in: ● March 15, 2009

At lunch Friday, I jokingly asked the question, what would be the economic impact of google mail going down be?
But after thinking a lot about cloud computer and semantics this weekend, I started to wonder if that is a serious issue.  Someone at the table did mention that google mail did go down for 2 [...]