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I've been blagging here a bit less than usual lately. Part of it is that I've been Twittering more (I'm zandperl there), and part is that some of my internet thirst is being slaked more productively, by my online course. I don't feel as much need to say things to the world, if I can say it small I twit it, and only if I need to say it big do I LJ. This is a good thing - LJing can take a lot of time, and I want to become more productive. That is, do real work more consciously, and have more structured free time instead of time lost to aimless surfing.

Enough with the introspection. Check this flowchart of the financial crisis.

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There are programs that will daily post your twitterings on to LJ automatically so your LJ followers can follow your twitter - if you would want that.

When I first got a twitter account I tried that and got many complaints. I see no reason to try again. :-P Twitter feeds are RSS-able, so if you really wanted I could make a separate syndication for my twitter account.

Ah, well no worries then - I have another friend who it took 3 or 4 applications before he found one that wasn't obnoxious.

Off Topic,
I had noticed around xmas you were interested in the book The Parrot Who Owns Me

Well I bought a copy from a mom/pop recycled book store 3 years ago and have never opened it. Would you like it?

The e-mail addy on my LJ profile is good.

I really actually despise this service? What is its point? People who friend person X on LJ follow them on LJ. People who follow person X on Twitter follow them on Twitter. Why the need for double-posting?

People who would normally follow twitter but cannot due to blocks at work, people who do not want to make a twitter account but enjoy knowing whats going on with friends who do....
Filling the gap - that sort of thing.

It is a personal preference, it doesn't bother me one bit.

IF you're a Twitter user, I agree. For people who don't want yet another account, such a service helps them see their friends' other social networking things.

Yeah, but what about all of the people who do read both LJ and Twitter? Should they no longer follow person X on Twitter? I can't really turn off "only-

zandperl's-Tweets" (for example) just-for-me on LJ.

zandperl could do it, but I'd have to ask.

I'm trying my best not to be rude about it, and I apologize if I come off that way. It just seems double-posting.

I do see your side,

spazzy444, but I'm not sure I see the best solution for all parties. This, of course, assumes readers of person X's LJ get a say at all in what person X chooses to do with hir LJ - I've generally been appreciative of all persons X who ask their readerships what they want, but I also believe that they should have the final say.

(Man, I hope my points come out clear. If they're not, I'll re-explain later.)

are you on reddit? you'd like it, i think (i'm zem there)

Very amusing flowchart. The only place I'd say that is not completely correct is that banks failed because of two reasons -- the one stated there (banks did not get their interest payments), and also because they had to write down the value of their assets because the market demand for them went down. I think the thing that blew up a lot of banks is more that the values of these CDOs had to be written down.

Do you know where housing prices in Japan are today relative to their height in their housing bubble from 1986-1990? According to wikipedia's Japanese Asset Price Bubble article, at its peak, a square foot of space in Ginza cost $93,000 USD.

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