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erberg is weeping in his garden when he overhears some neighbor children saying take and read he looks up and notices an old copy of the presentation of self in everyday life sitting on the table tolle lege mr zuckerberg tolle lege barring such an epiphany i wouldn t be surprised if next year s facebook developer s conference includes announcements that american standard is going social to automatically let your friends know when you use the toilet or perhaps vivid will automatically tell all your second cousins and old friends from high school what pornography you ve purchased or gap brands could let all your friends know what size pants you wear visa could post a status update giving the vendor address and dollar value every time you buy anything because really everything s better when it s social regardless of whether it s humiliating or just pointless information overload it s a brave new world of web 2 0 social media integration anyway i was most recently aggravated by spotify which like most things nowadays defaults to over sharing spotify describes this to npr as freeing people from the hassle of actively sharing songs they like which will help keep people engaged in their friends listening habits without effort some of us prefer to have this hassle because the alternative is an uncensored view of our listening habits as i wrote when apple added its ping social feature to itunes as a cultural sociologist who has published research on music as cultural capital i understand how my successful presentation of self depends on me making y all believe that i only listen to george gershwin john adams hank williams the raveonettes and sleater kinney as compared to what i actually listen to 90 of the time which is none of your fucking business anyway the worst thing about spotify freeing you from privacy hassle is it does so by default and it s difficult to opt out you can edit your profile to suppress playlists but by default they are all revealed and even if you suppress them new ones created thereafter are revealed worse editing your profile provides no way to suppress top tracks and top artists at least in the mac client version 0 6 1 after a fair amount of searching and coming very close to deleting my account entirely i discovered that it s fairly easy to totally suppress all of this through the client s preferences just go to the spotify menu and choose preferences then scroll down and uncheck these boxes you may now return to the dignity of crafting a public personae that is only loosely coupled to your backstage behavior enjoy september 27 2011 at 4 29 am gr 4 comments misc links gabriel the first three seasons of breaking bad are now on netflix streaming so you now have no excuse not to watch it speaking of netflix megan mcardle has the most interesting thoughts on the company s recent series of debacles and in particular explains why it doesn t scale q how many french anti racism activists does it take to screw in a lightbulb a that s not funny also i m gonna guess adam sandler s chanuka song wasn t a big hit with this crowd i recently discovered naxos music library which is basically spotify for classical music here s the ucla link those of you elsewhere should check if your school has a site license very interesting discussion of the contrast between smith s prediction of barter and actual fieldwork demonstrating that primitive societies work on gift exchange this is fascinating primarily for the economic anthropology itself and secondarily for the science studies type point that some economists are so stubborn about replacing their traditional model which is based on nothing but armchair theorizing with a well established finding from comparative ethnography it s especially funny to me because i think it s about as easy to see how monetary exchange emerged from gift exchange as it would be to see how it emerged from barter this should be rather obvious given that as discussed in social structures among other places the monetization of feudal obligations is a familiar example from our own culture that had only recently been completed in europe when smith was writing in any case stuff like this makes me think that at its core econ is less as a positive science than applied utilitarian moral philosophy that sounds like i m knocking econ but my candid descriptions of soc and anthro are even worse hipsters of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your regulatory barriers to korean taco trucks h t tyler mr also on the libertarian lawsuit front cato is taking on business method and software patents to paraphrase plutarch on the actual cato during sulla s reign of terror why then did you not give me a sword test case that i might stab him reverse bad precedents and free my country from this slavery patent thicket anyone ever told you this is the faculty club of the satan s helpers september 26 2011 at 8 40 am gr 1 comment we ve got it all on vhf gabriel the obama administration recently demonstrated that it knows the coase theorem through a proposal for incentivized spectrum auctions to get buy in from incumbent television licensees i m not completely sure why this proposal is part of the jobs bill but it strikes me as a great idea albeit one that is aimed at a pragmatic solution to the long standing terrible idea that is spectrum licensing the fundamental problem is that spectrum is a scarce resource that is currently allocated in a highly inefficient way the best spectrum vhf is allocated to television even though most people have cable or satellite and some of those who don t may not watch broadcast tv my own digital tuner broke a few months ago and i haven t bothered spending 30 to replace it since i mostly watch amazon and netflix on my roku and hulu on my mac in contrast there is a real scarcity of spectrum allocated to wireless telecom this is the root cause of why people hated at t s now defunct iphone exclusivity and why a voice and data phone plan costs upwards of 60 a month so basically you ve got a scarce resource being allocated to an activity which because of good substitutes is low valued and a real demand for the resource in another activity in a free market the price signal would cause resources to flow from the low value activity to the high value activity and the problem would solve itself similarly an efficient regulator would also strive to maximize welfare by this reallocation the problem is that spectrum is subject to neither a free market nor an efficient regulator but a mixed regime of regulated allocation whose incumbent stakeholders have effective veto power and this provides the worst of both worlds since the radio act of 1927 we ve had a licensing regime for broadcasting in principle this means that spectrum is public property that is licensed to private actors so long as they use it to serve the public interest although the licenses are theoretically short term they are habitually renewed except in extreme circumstances in practice our regime is that the broadcaster has a restricted but perpetual property right to spectrum that grants the right to use the spectrum for a particular purpose but not to use it for other purposes nor to sell it to others who would use it for new purposes this means that broadcasters can derive value from their spectrum but only so long as it is used for broadcasting as they have no right to sell it to telecoms broadcasters thus have an incentive to squat on it no matter how much over the air viewership declines or how much cell phone rates go up because hey why not certainly the national association of broadcasters has taken an approach of kicking and screaming about any allocation of vhf to wireless telecom while hinting that they do have a price at which they d be willing to sell their spectrum if allowed to do so most notably nab raised hell about interference when the fcc proposed using whitespace between broadcasting signals given that such interference is likely to be minimal this is insane from the perspective of maximizing social welfare but why would the broadcasters care about a massive opportunity cost given that the value created by utilizing whitespace goes to telecom providers and consumers and not to them hence the administration s recognition that the broadcasters need to be bought off in order to move forward the administration s understanding was effectively confirmed when the national association of broadcasters commented that nab does not oppose incentive auctions that are truly voluntary in other words nab supports a proposal that lets them alienate their property but would oppose a policy that merely revoked licenses to allow the state to reallocate them hence incentivized auctions which effectively split the difference between the de jure licensee and de facto property understandings of what spectrum is this grand bargain is exactly what law and economics folks have been proposing for decades and we re now seeing it come into play personally i m just hoping that we radically deregulate spectrum allocation one way or another and if compensating the incumbent stakeholders is what it takes then i m fine with that especially since i never believed that they were just licensees rather than de facto property owners in the first place more broadly let this be a lesson as to why feudalism sucks we re only in this mess in the first place because since 1927 we ve treated spectrum as public property to which broadcasters are granted contingent but effectively perpetual usage rights much like a hereditary fief granted to a vassal this is roughly equivalent to private ownership except that it makes medium as compared to content innovation illegal if we d auctioned off vhf as freehold property in the first place a free market would have reallocated much of it to wireless voice and data usage ten or twenty years ago the reallocation of vhf to wireless would be a very good thing in the short term it would mean cheaper cell phone bills and better cell phone reception particularly indoors which means that in a few years i will cease to be the last person in america who has good credit and is not a drug dealer but nonetheless uses a 20 pre paid cell phone but me personally finally getting a phone that can play plants vs zombies is less important to me than my country permanently shifting to a fully private property regime in spectrum first this means that the next time an innovative technical application for it comes along we won t have to go through this nonsense again second it means the end to a few pernicious legal doctrines one of the issues with a licensing regime is that it provides a pretext for censorship do a google search for the phrase public airwaves and almost every search result is somebody attacking freedom of speech usually with some variation along the lines of i believe in the first amendment but we shouldn t be effectively subsidizing lies stereotypes immorality through allowing them on the public airwaves this is such a familiar rhetorical trope that you sometimes see idiots people applying it to cable which is private property and so isn t relevant to the public airwaves argument on its own terms i would love to see us make red lion a dead letter and radical spectrum deregulation would accomplish this moreover vhf deregulation would solve the same problems as net neutrality but to do so with less potential for abuse by an overreaching and or captured state i have mixed feelings about net neutrality on the one hand i am extremely sympathetic to its goals of supporting content provider business model innovation and i m a great cynic about comcast s long term strategy to suppress this innovation on the other hand i worry a lot about this being the camel s nose under the tent for an intrusive and or cumbersome regulatory regime and in particular the structural problems with the fcc that wu articulates in the master switch the first two thirds of the book is a rather stigler esque history of how during the 20th century nbc and at t captured the fcc and used it to create barriers to entry then in the last third of the book he argues that this same regulatory agency should expand its scope to regulate the internet wtf professor wu did you read your own book however i think we can have the upside of net neutrality without the downside simply through having more viable options for broadband such that if you don t like your isp screwing around with your access to skype or netflix then you can change isps the reason this would work is that the broadband market is characterized by a last mile problem which means natural monopoly actually duopoly for largely historical reasons which means telecom market power over consumers which in turn provides the rationale for net neutrality however abundant wireless spectrum solves the last mile problem which cascades through the argument to mean that net neutrality is superfluous in a world where isps on vhf compete with those on coax and fiber optic cheaper cell phones undermining dangerous extant and developing legal doctrines and long run openness to efficient resource allocation what s not to like you can get even more cynical and say that broadcasters are opposed to ubiquitous broadband because they worry that streaming video is a disruptive innovation but i m not sure if they re thinking that far ahead and in any case such a supposition isn t necessary to see why they d want to hold out for a better deal september 20 2011 at 5 16 am gr 3 comments peak screens gabriel apparently creature a god awful exploitation monster film opened on 1 500 screens with no marketing and made no money whatsoever h t jonathan last my initial reaction was and i apologize if you can t follow the abstruse technical jargon what the fuck 1 500 screens is no spiderman 2 but it s still a reasonably wide opening when jaws which as coincidence would have it was also produced by sid sheinberg opened on 409 screens in 1975 that was considered opening wide on an unprecedented scale for a highly anticipated major studio film which was based on a novel that had been on the nyt bestseller list for almost a year and yet here we are with an obscure turd of a film opening on over three times the scale of one of the biggest films in hollywood history this seems like the kind of thing that simply can not happen but i checked variety and yup monster movie creature also bellyflopped the film self distributed by sid and jon sheinberg s bubble releasing had an unusually aggressive rollout for an indie title but a paltry per screen average of just 220 from 1 507 locations total was an estimated 331 000 at least i can take some comfort in the collective sanity of hollywood in knowing that neither the majors nor lionsgate were involved in this fiasco but there s still the puzzle of what the exhibitors were thinking most likely they were thinking in terms of vacancy chain opportunity cost issue 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