A Personal Pantagraph

Joel Spolsky of Joel of Software fame wrote a recent article on tiered pricing at the iTunes Music Store (iTMS). His thesis is that record companies want to force iTMS to institute tiered pricing not to raise additional revenue, but to use the different prices as a signal of quality. If a song [...]

Walmart has a profound effect on America: It helps to keep prices low, it provides an outlet for foreign goods, it employs people, and it bankrupts small retailers in the communities it enters. Understandably Walmart has been getting a bad wrap from some corners. I disagree with much of what is said [...]