Alejandro@Oxford

A short, a bit superficial piece in the NYT on the role of the web in political campaigning. Link

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And [...]

The amazing lightning success of the Atheist Bus Campaign (read my post, and post on the speed of donations by justgiving – graph underneath), which has so far collected £58,000 in a day and a half and keeps going up, requires some explanation. An online campaigner has already written about which lessons online campaigners and [...]

Amazing! The Atheist Bus is back again with a full-blown web campaign: a website, a facebook group and a donation page. This time the goal is to get at least £5,500 in donations to have 30 buses in London running with the ad “There’s probably no God, Now stop worrying and enjoy your life” for [...]

I guess I should have stick to my original pessimistic scenario; it was silly of me to be carried away by the optimism of the markets. The big recession is already looming, UK hits the highest rise in 17 years, and the stock markets are dropping again rapidly. Let’s see if the US and EU’s [...]

Today was a memorable day for stock markets. After the last week disastrous performance, with accumulate losses of around 20%, stock markets bounced 7-10%. Some people make millions. This is evidence of the optimism created by the coordinated action of US and European governments to rein in the crisis, evidence of the hunger for cooperation [...]

Super Rich: The Greed Game, a TV “documentary” on how the people behind this financial mess make their money, and how we all are going to pay for it. The rich people, any rich person, particularly those that show it off, are becoming individualized in the blaming game of this crisis. We may be witnessing [...]

Why should we trust banks and governments when they tell us that our deposit are OK? Look at the case of the Icelandic banks. On October 5th, from This Money
Kaupthing and Landsbanki shares have crashed in the past year and the banks are now worth £2.3bn and £1.15bn respectively.
Spokesmen for both insisted that there [...]

This video has gone around lately in blogs, newspapers and other media on the web. A very entertaining and fair way of explaining this complicate crisis. Very popular among Spanish viewers – this explains the subtitles.
The Last Laugh – George Parr – Subprime – subtitulosby erioluk

A bit more than a month ago, Bloomberg published by mistake the 17-page obituary of Steve Jobs. Apple shares tumbled a good percentage. Today, CNN iReport published a false report about Steve Jobs being hospitalized for symptoms of a heart attack. Shares dropped 10% before the report was denied by Apple and taken off CNN’s [...]