Davos Newbies

I like the idea of “how to” websites, where I’ll learn some coveted skill. When do I have time is always a question, but it’s nice to dream.

I’ve never really wanted to be a rock star, but having attended my nine-year old’s rock debut yesterday I was intrigued by the launch of iVideosongs: “we’ll teach you how to play a complete song”. Pity that at this early stage all the instructional videos for keyboard, which I have some competence on, are for pretty lame songs.

There are lots of examples to choose from, but I liked my friend Dave Winer’s angle:

What a fantastic way to recover from Bush, who so completely represented the greed and arrogance and uglyness of America, to reinvent ourselves in the image of our best, in the image of hope.

David Warsh provides some invaluable context on monetary policy:

So put yourself in Bernanke’s shoes. Assume that recession was inevitable. When was the right time to take it? At seventy-two months, the current expansion is already longer than any of the thirty years before Volcker, except for the inflationary nine-year Vietnam boom.