Business
Sweet spot for China’s blue-collar revolution
english.caing.com- Recent spate of worker strikes at factories in China, what does it mean for the rest of the world?
iPhone economics and lower barriers to entry
O’Reilly Radar- The App Store created a marketplace that anyone with the appropriate skills can enter. Can it last?
Forget peak oil, peak lumber is coming
Minyanville- The mountain pine beetle is ravaging Canadian forests, leading a long-term bull market in lumber.
When anyone can be a published author
salon.com- Will readers have to flounder in an ocean of slush before the new gatekeepers appear to rescue them?
Finance & Economics
Public sees a future full of promise and peril
pewresearch.org- In the public’s view, the next 40 years promises to be an era of technological progress.
Trichet explains why Soros is wrong about the Euro
cnbc.com- Reforming the real economy in each country in the euro zone is what is needed, according to Trichet.
Sterling is the star
Credit Write Downs- The budget credibility, the lower gilt issuance and reduced risk of a downgrade is helped sterling recover.
Europe: Adrift amid the rift
FT- Economic and financial crisis in the eurozone has exposed deep and long-standing divisions between the two largest European economies.
Fed watch: China, day one
Economists’ View- While China appears willing to adjust the parity rate, changes are likely to be more window dressing than anything else.
The rest
Personality shows up in brain structure
pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com- Personality differences are now being explored biologically in the brain.
Words of the future
thenational.ae- As ebooks increase in popularity, typesetters are working hard to design the ideal fonts for on-screen reading.
Working on a (temp) dream
inthesetimes.com- Welcome to the freelance economy, where workers are atomized, badly compensated and strangely optimistic.
Beating China, India turns world’s top spam source
hindustantimes.com- The top country where spam servers are located is India, accounting for 16.9%, Brazil 8.7%.
