Monday, May 20, 2002

RIP: Stephen Jay Gould [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 11:57:55 PM

Smart Money Picks 10 Rising Careers [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]  Guess it's time to dust off those AI skills.  They'd probably serve me in data-mining and bioinformatics too! 11:57:02 PM

Console Pricing Economics [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] a link to a story about how the XBox pricing game is playing for MS -- in short, not too well...I like the column's name -- Monday Morning CEO 2:44:44 PM

This looks like an interesting article... 10 Reasons Companies Fail 12:22:27 PM

Bloomberg.  Michael Lewis.  Warren Buffet on CEO pay and bad corporate behavior. >>>The most interesting message Warren Buffett delivered to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. last week was that his outrage toward CEOs was growing fast.  After pointing out that chief executive officers of public companies are the only people in our economy who effectively decide what they are going to pay themselves, Buffett went on to call the attitude of the greedier members of the species ``shameful.''  Then Buffett and Munger let slip an interesting fact: They had dumped their shares in some company after they saw what the CEO was paid. ``We felt we couldn't stomach it,'' Buffett said.<<<   The top two candidates:  Disney and Citigroup. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 7:48:47 AM