2 posts tagged “economist”
Revenge of the Nomads in the first place...
http://www.thanko.jp/goronex/
(( Looks useful if it works as advertised, keep the hot laptop in distance))
More on the subject outside your home and work place ((third place))
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950487
and
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950378
Welcome to the THIRD PLACE ((it's not a Sony PS2 ad this time)). The term was coined in 1989 already...
The academic name for such spaces is “third places”, a term originally coined by the sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his 1989 book, “The Great, Good Place”. At the time, long before mobile technologies became widespread, Mr Oldenburg wanted to distinguish between the sociological functions of people's first places (their homes), their second places (offices) and the public spaces that serve as safe, neutral and informal meeting points. As Mr Oldenburg saw it, a good third place makes admission free or cheap—the price of a cup of coffee, say—offers creature comforts, is within walking distance for a particular neighbourhood and draws a group of regulars. The eponymous bar in the television series “Cheers”, “where everybody knows your name”, is an example.
Zoom to 2008. Wir nennen es ((nun)) Arbeit...
http://www.wirnennenesarbeit.de/
I have written about the death of TV recently. This post is about a special channel, CNBC, which is mostly about finance / stocks.
I have just been trying to watch watching
to CNBC for about 60 minutes now ((and apart from the blatant
self-advertising, such as CNN a few years ago...do I care in which
'fine hotels' I can tune in to CNN ??!!!)
((zap))
...Extreme volatility....hedge funds going belly up....volatility....us housing slump....yadda, yadda....subprime mortgage defaulting....yadda, yadda....volatility....yadda, yadda.
((zapp))
The two stock tickers in different speeds also drive my poor eyes crazy after a few minutes. If I want up-to-the-minute stock prices, I can go online any time, no ?! ((Which brings me back to the death of TV))
Reminds me of Clockwork Orange: mad eyes
I really don't know who can watch this for a few hours a day. Professional investors apparently tune to it and leave it running silently in the background. Even that would be too much for me.
CNBC for sure has interesting guests with all the important C*Os and exclusive stories and all, but I really don't know who can watch this for hours. ((repeat rant deleted))
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned ((or missing the Conan O' Brien talkshows, which now only show Saturday and Sunday on CNBC Europe)), but this kind of financial programming focuses too much on short-term views in my opinion.
I prefer old-fashioned printed news ((online or on real paper)) such as Financial Times, Economist, NZZ ((or even the free Swiss newspaper Cash Daily, free PDF edition requires signup here: http://www.cash.ch/daily/ )) any day.
