Information Maven: Greg Meyer

Saturday is the annual Biggest Little Game in America matching Division III Williams against its arch-rival Amherst. It’s the 120th annual meeting between these teams, and the oldest continuous football championship without a membership change (the Little 3 - Amherst, Wesleyan, and Williams - began competing for this championship in 1910).

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Have you seen the gatorade commercial with famous moments that “didn’t happen” due to not having imbibed the aforementioned sports beverage?
Here’s how it was done. I’ve gotta admit the first time I saw Jordan miss against the Cavs, I was fooled.

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For someone who remembers paying $2000 for an Apple Macintosh SE, the concept of a $100 laptop is positively mind-boggling. Ok, I suppose in basic form it’s not that different than the mini-computers many of us use to make cellular phone calls, but it’s still impressive nonetheless.
My friend Ethan Zuckerman writes about the current […]

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Amazon.com has launched (in Beta) an interesting service called that pays you (in micropayment form) for completing tasks only a human would know how to do well. Scott McCloud has written in depth about the concept of micropayments, or payments so small that consumers will not think it a burden to, say, buy a […]

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This salary cap primer is an excellent introduction to the vagaries of the NBA salary cap, and a must for anyone interested in understanding the basic fundamentals of running the business of an NBA team today. Learn once and for all what the luxury tax means for your team.

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