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If you are like me you subscribe to many RSS feeds and you find them accumulating articles faster than you can read them.  What do you do when MetaFilter has 500 unread articles? Use the glance ...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/04/21/how-to-browse-rss-feeds/

Ghutrah grip:  Maximo Rossi

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/04/10/colin-camerer-games-brains-monkeys/

Steve Tadelis, Distinguished Economist at eBay and his colleagues have done an experiment and seem to have concluded that its a waste of money to pay for sponsored links on Google when Google’...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/04/04/the-demise-of-sponsored-search-ads/

Here I am on the podcast Hang Up And Listen with hosts Stefan Fatsis, Mike Pesca and Josh Levin.  Its a sports oriented podcast and I am talking about Purple Pricing. They had some very good que...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/04/03/pleased-to-be-sharing-the-marquee-with-dennis-rodman/

We have coordinated on April 1 as the date where everyone gets to indulge their latent desire to say something false and hope that it gets believed.  The problem of course is that as a result no...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/03/31/consider-the-equilibrium-april-fools-unraveling/

There’s someone you want to hook up with.  How do you find out if the attraction is mutual while avoiding the risk of rejection?  That is simply not possible no matter how sophisticated a mec...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/03/11/preventing-common-knowledge-bang-with-friends/

Google discontinued their appointment slots feature of Google Calendar.  I was using that to schedule meetings with students.  It was really nice because I could just block out some time for me...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/02/18/alternative-to-google-appointment-slots/

Cheap Talk has turned 4 years old.  In honor of that, I could tell you about how many of you read us, how many of you subscribe to us, which were the greatest among all the great articles we wro...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/02/03/fear/

Good grammar makes for bad passwords: there’s an Achilles’ heel in creating phrase-based passwords. It’s the fact that most English speakers will craft phrases that make sense. Ashwini Rao ...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/01/31/considerate-them-equilibriums/

Its here.  I like the purpose, as given on the masthead: This blog is to help me remember stories and papers and provide ideas for students taking the Behavioral and Experimental class. It will ...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/01/25/muriel-niederle-has-a-blog/