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Plaxo and Linkedin should merge. They both have cool functions but together they’d be awesome. By the way, you can read my Linkedin Profile.

So, thanks to a Wall Street Journal article today titled “For These Sites, Their Best Asset Is a Good Name” by Julia Angwin click fraud is a legitimized business. How long will this last? It could be wiped out in two to three weeks with some algorithm updates to weed these bogus sites out of the index, but with Google and Yahoo getting paid (by-the-click) to keep these sites in, I suppose they could be here for a while.

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So, I’ll start by admitting that I’m no expert when it comes to economics. In fact the only formal economics training I’ve had were one or two rather poorly taught undergraduate courses at Cornfield University in Nowhere Indiana that left me thinking economists (John Maynard Keynes in particular) were completely full of crap. Then, years later a friend of mine introduced me to Henry Hazlitt’s awesome little book
Economics in One Lesson which, to my surprise and delight, gave the same answers to some of the garbage put forth in my undergraduate economics class that I gave. I’ve since read a little Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman and Adam Smith and I’ve found that economics is actually very interesting.

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If I want to do something, I find out how to do it independently where I’m the one who takes the risk and, therefore, the one who benefits most from the success.

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