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...case is sending ripples throughout the world of hedge funds, a stratum of high finance that has thus far been largely untouched by the post-meltdown regulatory scrutiny and populist outrage directed at mainstream banks. "This case should be a wake-up call for Wall Street," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in announcing the charges. Indeed. While many hedge funds wouldn't know what to do with inside information if they tripped over it - the strategy at quantitatively oriented shops often fixates on building better computer models - plenty of others ply their trade by working the phones and calling...
...advice to offer young journalists, what would it be? The issue is not writing. It's what you write about. One of my favorite columnists is Jonathan Weil, who writes for Bloomberg. He broke the Enron story, and he broke it because he's one of the very few mainstream journalists in America who really knows how to read a balance sheet. That means Jonathan Weil will always have a job, and will always be read, and will always have something interesting to say. He's unique. Most accountants don't write articles, and most journalists don't know anything...
...have described Wave as what e-mail would look like if it had been invented now instead of 40 years ago. (Fun fact: the first e-mail was sent in 1971 between two Digital PDP-10 computers.) Keep in mind that until the mid-1990s, when e-mail went mainstream, the network environment was very different. Bandwidth was a scarce resource. You had your poky modem and liked it. Which is why e-mail was created in the image of the paper-postal system: tiny squirts of electronic text. (See the 50 best websites...
Nevertheless, this is Google's best shot at a ubiquitous mainstream product since Google Maps in 2005. Google is in an interesting phase. Basically it has all the money in the world, which it has used to hire the smartest people in the world, whom it has unleashed in an apparently only minimally managed orgy of R&D. As a result, it's been spinning out cult hits and noble failures at a furious rate: Orkut (big in Brazil!), Picasa, Knol, Docs, SketchUp, OpenSocial, Chrome and Android. But it hasn't produced a lot of homegrown category killers...
...Would she be in charge of helping Her Campus perpetuate the single standard of beauty touted by just about all fashion and women’s magazines? What if an applicant has a really grotesque sense of beauty, one that doesn’t conform to the mostly thin, mainstream, well-manicured version that Her Campus (so far) seems to support? (Yes, we mean, what if you think the applicant is ugly...