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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.

(via @newsweek, Newsweek’s Twitter feed)

2:42 pm | leave a comment
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Got it! Ads on FatMixx are showing the NBA’s playoff video “ad” again. I have some screenshots of what I was talking about earlier. It’s a little embedded interactive app. If you click on the controls, you can navigate to one of 4 features: Recap video, Preview video, Stat Leaders, and the Playoff schedule. If you click just in the window, you get taken to the NBA playoff package on NBA.com. Very slick, and great production values.

Here are the screenshots:

NBA Adsense shot 1

NBA Adsense shot 2

NBA Adsense shot 3

NBA Adsense shot 4

This is neat, but I wonder what the practical upshot is. Google Adsense as a Widget delivery vehicle? Is this content or advertising? Does it employ the same targeting algorithms? What keywords do you buy to deliver this ad? How much is the NBA paying? This is an interesting development.

4:06 am | leave a comment

Sure seems like the referees want to be a part of this game… ticky-tack fouls left and right…

Update: Looking like a Spurs win is coming… Come on DETROIT!

Update: it’s over. Congrats, Spurs…

Update: It’s nice that the commentators aren’t trying to build up the last 22.1 seconds… going to watch the Daily Show now… this was a great series…

10:17 pm | leave a comment