NYC parents are creating Pre-School CoOp-s to deal with the market shortage. (Educating Kids In Nyc) Beyond the effort was the challenge of getting different families to work together. When matters as personal as education, values and children are at stake, intense emotions are sure to follow, whether the issue is snacks (organic or not?), paint (machine washable?) or what religious holidays, if any, to acknowledge. Oh, and in many cases, forming a co-op school is illegal, because getting the required permits and passing background checks can be so prohibitively expensive and time-consuming that most co-ops simply don’t. (Too Many Laws)

The R Open Source StatisticalAnalysis language is competing with SAS. (Statistics, Exploratory Data Analysis) (more)

Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines, from the natural and social sciences to the humanities, government and business. (more)

paperwork for bureacracy, regulation (more)

Processing of buyers coming together to make a single bid/transaction for an offering, in order to get a lower price. (more)

Statistics package (more)

Edd Dumbill says: Check Vist is an online OutLiner, similar to applications such as OmniOutliner on the Mac. Fundamentally, you can use it to create hierarchical outlines. Checkvist has a lot of extra bells and whistles that facilitate its use for basic Project Management (Issue Tracker). Items can be assigned to other users, given due dates, and have annotations from members of your team. You can also tag an item with a Hash Tag. None of those fetaures get in the way of straightforward outlining, however... Crucially for a web app, Checkvist speaks the standard file format of its genre, in this case OPML. You can both import and export OPML. Other import formats include PlainText and Confluence Wiki syntax (WikiText). Those formats are supported for export, along with simple HTML. (more)

*What has publishers riled, behind the scenes, is aggressive moves the retailer (Amazon) is making in its demands on co-op and discounts. A number of sources in the industry, all of whom spoke to PW on the condition of anonymity, said the retailer is, in certain cases, threatening to stop selling titles from companies who won't pay up... The demands regarding co-op have some particularly on edge. Not only are many publishers frustrated about being asked to pay more money for content they are providing, but the whole notion of co-op at the online retailer is unsettling. While the case can be made that co-op in a bricks-and -mortar store is a worthwhile investment--money is spent on getting books to physical areas of the store, such as front tables, where consumers will see those books first--it's much less logical on a Web site. Does having a video or an author Q&A on a book's page on Amazon really encourage a customer who has already clicked on that book to make a purchase? (more)

Nova Spivack product (more)

when government goes beyond Welfare State into Micro-Management of your life (taking on Risk Management for you: requiring Motor Cycle helmets, boring Play Ground-s and Chemistry Set-s, etc.) (more)

There was a Financial Planning Blogger Con in Chicago the end of September. Close, and only $120! I'm bummed I didn't know about it. (more)

The prisoner's dilemma is a canonical example of a game, analyzed in Game Theory that shows why two individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interest to do so. It was originally framed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher working at RAND in 1950. Albert W. Tucker formalized the game with prison sentence payoffs and gave it the "prisoner's dilemma" name (William Poundstone, 1992). (more)

Dave Winer notes how Platform controls (e.g. Apple Computer, Twitter) leaves ISV-s with the Prisoners Dilemma. A few years later, I asked a room full of them, just out of curiosity, if any of them had made money on this deal they did with Apple. Of course not. Apple, Microsoft and Aldus (which later became part of Adobe) made all the money. The bottom-line is that the developers would have done better, imho, working with each other, than each of them making separate "deals" with Apple. Because to Apple, they weren't deals at all. Their motive, as people, not so much as a company, was to regain full control of everything that happened on their platform. The other developers helped them do that. Once that was over, they weren't important to Apple... My advice to developers who seek partnerships with Twitter is to spread your bets out. Sure, Twitter may buy one or two of you, but what if they buy your competitor? Would you like to have some hope for the future if that should happen?

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File Transfer Protocol (more)

Christopher Hitchens battles Mike Bloomberg's NYC Nanny State. There are laws that are defensible but unenforceable, and there are laws impossible to infringe. But in the New York of Mayor Bloomberg, there are laws that are not possible to obey, and that nobody can respect, and that are enforced by arbitrary power. The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. Tyranny can be petty. And “petty” is not just Bloomberg’s middle name. It is his name.

The United States military officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq on Thursday even as violence continues to plague the country and the Muslim world remains distrustful of American power. (War On Iraq) (more)

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VoIP over WiFi (more)

Venkatesh Rao on the strategy of Trading Up instead of Acting Dead and following the Middle Class scripts that are becoming obsolete. (more)