Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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from Ray Ozzie and Microsoft. They’ve overlaid the Lotus Notes style synchronization onto RSS to allow people to synchronize different address books and contact lists. I’ll have some thoughts on this if I can get around to reading the proposal, but for now, here’s the link.
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