Don’t let this blog interrup you: A staggering $650 billion is spent on workers’ time that is wasted by unnecessary interruptions, according to recent articles in the New York Times and BusinessWeek.

Here’s a novel idea: What if Google paid you to use its search engine? A world where advertisers paid you for your time?

The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard tries to outdo the other doom and gloomers: "It feels like the summer of 1931. The world’s two biggest financial institutions have had a heart attack. The global currency system is breaking down. The policy doctrines that got us into this mess are bankrupt."

The brave new world of e-hatred: Social networks and video-sharing sites don’t always bring people closer together, writes The Economist.

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