Jason E. Shao

Wired 13.01: The Bit Torrent Effect

Cohen knows the havoc he has wrought. In November, he spoke at a Los Angeles awards show and conference organized by Billboard, the weekly paper of the music business. After hobnobbing with “content people” from the record and movie industries, he realized that “the content people have no clue. I [...]

America, the Indifferent

Almost a third of the way into the program, the latest available figures show that the percentage of United States income going to poor countries remains near rock bottom: 0.14 percent. Britain is at 0.34 percent, and France at 0.41 percent. (Norway and Sweden, to no one’s surprise, are already exceeding the goal, [...]

Merry Christmas Everyone!

WSJ Opinions Section

Mr. O’Donnell’s complaint seems to be that blue states like Connecticut pay a much higher average tax rate than do red states like Oklahoma, making them carry a disproportionate share of the federal tax burden. If that is so, enacting John Kerry’s proposed tax hike [...]

business2blog: Companies Cut Benefits to Gays

Massachusetts companies, some of which pioneered so-called domestic-partner benefits for unmarried, same-sex partners, said they are now withdrawing them for reasons of fairness: If gays and lesbians can now marry, they should no longer receive special treatment in the form of health benefits that [...]

I’ve been playing with MarsEdit, and must say that I’m impressed. The biggest problem for me would have to be the fact that I spend so much time on a PC at work, that I don’t feel like I can get tied to too many Mac only programs. If only Firefox supported spell-checking [...]

business2blog: Where the Jobs Are

Cnet maps the top IT-job producing cities. Not a lot of surprises: San Jose, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; Long Beach, Calif.; New York; Chicago; Boston; Oakland, Calif.; Seattle; and San Francisco.

I don’t think this map would really surprise anyone. It’s interesting to see the concentration of tech jobs [...]

Free Credit Report Rollout Begins Wednesday

Beginning September 1, 2005: Eastern states (Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia), Puerto Rico, and all U.S. territories. Consumers may choose to order free reports from all [...]