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Monthly Archives: November 2013
This Week I Learned: Higher Education Edition
This week’s centrepiece is an analysis (free registration required) with the sobering title, “Graduate data reveal England’s lost and indebted generation“. Two staistics say it all: “The latest class is earning 12% less than their pre-crash counterparts at the same … Continue reading
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This Week I Learned: Lawyers, Pirates, and Musical Elephants Edition
No real unifying theme this week, but some interesting trivia! To start with, have a look at these charts showing the bifurcation of starting salaries for lawyers in the US. Striking, isn’t it? The accompanying article is here. The … Continue reading
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Writing on the Wall: Social Media: The First 2,000 Years, by Tom Standage
Did you know that the classic media business model (widely distributed, subsidised by advertising) only took off in 1833 with the launch of the New York Sun? The Sun sold at 1/6th the price of its rivals; juiced circulation with … Continue reading
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