If you’re interested in weblogging, read this story in today’s NY Times Magazine. It starts slowly, it sounded like just another Internet horror story, but it gets to the point. A 13-year-old day-trader from New Jersey, who made almost a million dollars in the stock market wrote this: “People who trade stocks, trade based on what they feel will move and they can trade for profit. Nobody makes investment decisions based on reading financial filings. Whether a company is making millions or losing millions, it has no impact on the price of the stock. Whether it is analysts, brokers, advisors, Internet traders, or the companies, everybody is manipulating the market. If it wasn’t for everybody manipulating the market, there wouldn’t be a stock market at all.”
Monthly Archive for February, 2001
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Losing faith in PayPal Aggressive anti-fraud tactics at the first widely used online payment company are spurring a consumer backlash. (Salon)
At some point soon you’re probably going to wonder what “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” means. You can find out here: When Gamer Humor Attacks (Wired News)
Beware Those Insidious Vcards. Virtual Business Cards, a popular attachment option available to Outlook e-mail users, has a flaw that cybervandals can exploit to trash computer hard drives. By Michelle Delio.
Microsoft announced Friday that a flaw in its Outlook e-mail program allows crackers to crash or remotely control computers and entire networks, via virtual business cards (Vcards) that harbor malicious code. (unless of course you have a Mac)
NY Times: Hype and Anti-Hype. The Gartner Group consultants have developed a useful concept to describe the hype around new technologies, which they call the “hype cycle.” As a new technology is triggered, the hype curve soars upward until it reaches a peak of inflated expectations. Then it sinks almost straight down into a trough of disillusionment.
Days of free music downloads numbered on Napster
Napster will remain open at least through March 2, when a federal judge will hold hearings on a record industry order requesting the trading of copyright music files over the network be halted. (MacCentral)
If We Can Fly, Why Can’t We Talk? (Wired News)
Useless reasons why the the airline insustry and the FAA don’t want you to use your wireless phone in flight.