Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2014-08-28
Books mentioned on Who Runs the Internet? (Rebroadcast)
The online universe doesn't have nearly as many rules, or rulemakers, as the real world. Discuss.
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Here comes everybody
“And I wrote about this a little bit in my first book, And Here Comes Everybody. I grew up when popular mechanics was saying, you know, you'll fly your flying car to work”
Passing Superfreakonomics
“You know, it just reminds me, I don't know why, of when Super Freakonomics came out and we had this stuff on climate change. And the online rants against us were untrue. They were absurd.”