links for 2009-05-13

• Stage 4 through the lens. A Don Karle gallery. - VeloNews
  Cycling journalists have the best gigs. Probably even more so than the ones covering golf.
• Economist's View: "Adam Smith and Web 2.0"
  very interesting article "We’re socially comparative beings. We care deeply about the conduct, opinions and values of our peers, using comparisons with them to orient our own ideas about what we need or value and how wealthy we want or need to be. As for the subtler aspects of our economy, from the motivation of employees to those amazing things Web 2.0 is bringing forth, well, homo economicus doesn’t seem to get close to what’s going on...Enter Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, published 250 years ago last month, a book he intended partly as a theoretical foundation for his later economics. ...Web 2.0 is scaling up the scope for human sociality and opening up new vistas for the expression of self-interest. And yet profit-seeking is only a small part of how that self-interest is manifesting itself.
  (tags: economy social_media web2.0)
• Google Squared Is Search Results In Spreadsheet Format (GOOG)
  as my friend Juan just posted on Twitter "jlopezvalcarcelGoogle Squared shows results in spreadsheet format bankers and consultants value-add is now commoditized :-) >"
  (tags: finance google)