Social media It Boy Mark Zuckerberg posted a mea culpa on Facebook about the Beacon program that would track your online purchases and tell your friends.

Some aren't yet mollified, according to this NYT story.

From the Dec. 3 NYT:

Former Gawker editor Choire Sicha on why he quit as managing editor:

“Most of my frustration with the job is of my own making,” Mr. Sicha said by telephone on Saturday. “I’ve completely lost my taste for management, and the thing I realized is that the talent has all the fun.”

From the NYT:

Richard F. Zannino, Dow Jones’s chief executive, will leave the company after staying for a time to help with the transition, Dow Jones announced yesterday.

People briefed on the matter said that both Mr. Zannino and L. Gordon Crovitz, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, would be succeeded by trusted lieutenants of Rupert Murdoch soon after the takeover was complete.

Executives at both companies say there will be a broader sweep of the upper echelon at Dow Jones in the next few weeks, both to eliminate duplication and to make way for Mr. Murdoch’s people.

Mr. Zannino will be succeeded by Les Hinton, the executive chairman of News International ...

And as has been widely anticipated, Robert J. Thomson, editor of The Times of London, will take the place of Mr. Crovitz, publisher of The Journal.

From the NYT:

Passengers may soon hear a new in-flight announcement: “You can now log on.”

Starting next week and over the next few months, several United States airlines will test Internet service on their planes.

On Tuesday, JetBlue Airways will begin offering a free e-mail and instant messaging service on one of its planes, while American Airlines, Virgin America and Alaska Airlines plan to offer broader Web access in coming months, probably at a cost around $10 a flight.

You may have noticed I haven't blogged for a while (by my prolific standards).

I moved on Saturday, and in terms of my Internet access moving with me, it turned into a Kafka-esque, Catch-22-ish, corporate bureaucratic nightmare. I just got access back this afternoon.

This has me thinking I should investigate a new ISP (the bell is tolling for my old one).

If anyone who trips over this message has any suggestions, I'd be very interested in hearing them.

Please either leave a comment or e-mail me: blog-dot-bill-at-gmail-dot-com.

Many thanks.

From CBC.ca:

A new paper by two American economists suggests people who lose their jobs may be at risk of premature death. 

Economists tracked the lives of more than 20,000 workers in Pennsylvania over a 30-year period, including 7,000 employees who lost their jobs in mass layoffs.

They looked at the number of deaths for these laid-off workers up until 20 years after job loss and compared their mortality to that of similar employees who did not lose their job.

"The bottom line is that large mass layoffs that lead to large earnings losses will increase mortality of the affected workers 10 to 20 per cent a year. That leads to a loss of life expectancy of one to two years," said Till von Wachter, a labour economist at Columbia University, which conducted the study with the U.S. Federal Reserve.