Digital Culture Studies

Just refresh the Google finance tracker page, over and over again. A great question on CNN - will the cure be worse than the disease? What I wonder is, how does the use of real-time web-based software change investor beliefs in the current tumultuous market? In ‘87, there was a news delay, and only professional traders knew exactly what was happening, minute by minute. But now we all know - does this benefit or harm the markets right now?

Need a moment of inappropriate humour right now? Sometimes tagging can be very, very funny. Case in point, on Amazon: Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment (Hardcover) is currently tagged ‘goatse’. You maybe have to be an innerwebs old timer to get the joke.

From the Stats website: “ Since its founding in 1994, the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) has become a much-valued resource on the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media. Our goals are to correct scientific misinformation in the media resulting from bad science, politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge; and to act as a resource for journalists and policy makers on major scientific issues and controversies.”

With that in mind, check out their list of the worst science news stories of 2007. This doesn’t really need my commentary - just go read it and laugh.