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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Interesting take. I don’t know if users will want to switch. I’m pretty sure that this would have to be much easier to use before, say, Heidi would switch.
Google announced their new personalized home page, similar to My Yahoo. I’m a big fan of Google’s simple, clean designs and their personalized home page follows in those footsteps. I like it. Yahoo, on the other hand, always seems cluttered to me. There’s just too much going on and a lot of it has to do with the infrastructure of the page. What I mean is that the boxes and the background and everything else just end up being too much. So, give the Google version a whirl. They also allow any RSS feed and have neat hookups to their email service among other things.
