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Identifying what we value and what we fear

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On any given day in the US in 2008 an average of about 148,000 people will die. Yawn. As the population swells it will grow larger. Yawn. As the population struggles with food, water, disease, contamination and war, those numbers will fluctuate higher and higher. Yawn. For many of us the numbers are so [...]

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YIKES! Again… another data point in the abyss…

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, social networks, tagged , , , , , on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Elliot Masie – a corporate learning impresario has asked on his site www.learningtown.com :
What “Learning” lessons can we learn from the current U.S. Democratic Primaries? What are your perspectives? Note: Keep this focused on the lessons .. not a push for a candidate!

Recent response…
It appears we’ve learned to regurgitate what we were told by [...]

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More on I Can Haz Cheezburger

Posted in economics, online advertising, traffic, tagged , , on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Wired has a nice highlight of the people behind I Can Haz CheezBurger.
They also produce this hilarious site.
Icanhazcheezburger.com gets “2 million pageviews and about 8,000 submissions daily.”  I already pointed out the crazy economics of this and how frustrating this types of sites are for major media companies that throw 100x the resources at projects [...]

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The Apple Experience

Posted in Computers, Hardware, apple, mac, tagged , , , , on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m now the owner of a fancy macbook.  Here are some notes on my apple buying and using experience.
Mac and Apple stores definitely have a distinct smell to them.  It’s been reported by many on the internet and as far as my last 5 or 6 apple products go, there’s something they do with the [...]

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Applications Optional: Empirical Convergence of Learning and Performance

Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Well, are we all amused…? You know, things going your way, life better than it was a decade ago or at least a couple of birthdays ago…?
 
Today it’s…

The Pope
The Supremes (Court that is…)
Playoffs – pick your sport…
Market(s)
War(s)
Civil law changes
Constitutional law changes
Pollution outlook
Gangstatainment
Food shortages in developed countries
Creation of diseases to use pharma’s research results
Barrel of pain [...]

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Behavior Experiment Software

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, social networks, tagged , , on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Looking for some software to control your behavior experiments?
Here ya go.
Delphi 5, sweet.  Now there’s a language on a different schedule.

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Tax Day 2008 – post 1

Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, government, politics, taxes, tagged , , , , , , on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

So… there’s this tax gap of $290 billion.  Yup, each year taxpayers underpay what is legally owed by $290 billion.
Think that correlates at all with the growth of tax law which required only 4 pages in 1945 to explain a 1040 to 155 pages in 2007?
Yaw… methinks the lost time and money in reading 155 [...]

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Social Networks and metaphors du jure…

Posted in analysis of behavior, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Edge.com
Douglas Rushkoff
“Social Networks Are Like the Eye”
A Talk with Nicholas Christakis
I read with great interest – as usual – the Edge article by DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: “Social Networks are like the Eye” – A Talk with Nicholas Christakis.

Certainly no shortage of the point and counterpoint logic on anyone’s part. Rushkoff and Alda both working [...]

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…sect conditioned girls from birth

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, religion, tagged , , , , on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Polygamist sect conditioned girls from birth
Washington Times - 1 hour ago
By Valerie Richardson The 16-year-old girl whose phone call led to the massive raid on a West Texas polygamist compound was repeatedly beaten and sexually abused by her much-older husband, according to state documents released yesterday.
Teen mothers reported at polygamist sect’s compound Los Angeles Times
Papers detail [...]

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MSN/Live.com Search – Pathetic

Posted in media, search, tagged , , , on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s why Microsoft can’t beat Google:
http://find.msn.com/search.aspx?q=NFL+division+title&c=0115+NFL+division+title&form=MSNH1
a) Why is John Legend pulled up above the fold on this return?
b) Why is this a “Hot Search” featured on MSN.com portal’s homepage?
c) Live/Msn/Microsoft – which interface should I be using?  they all give different results and are different interfaces
At least they will get this once they get this [...]

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