Daily Archives: January 21, 2009

Lie to Me* FOX debut

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

I am so disappointed. Mysticism returns to prime time TV with this inane crime stopper series “LIE to ME*” heralding the star (Tim Roth) and his team’s ability to read people’s faces to tell when they are lying about what. … Continue reading →

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Inauguration Day Cost to Google

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

Check out this bit of info from the Official Google Blog! Based on their graph of searches per hour and assuming at $5-7 eCPM on searches  and an estimate of 500,000,000-1,000,000,000 searches per day (or 21,000,000 to 42,000,000 searches per … Continue reading →

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Chaos begets Chaos? aka Behavior Selection by Consequences

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In yet another confounding of the same sitatuion we see played out over and over in thousands of published studies, Seed gives us a report on how moral decisions are contextual. “No, the results did not surprise us,” says Lindenberg. … Continue reading →

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Economic Soothsaying Dying with the Rest of The Economy

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I suppose some might consider it a good thing that the Economics Oracles are starting to make far less definitive statements and/or predictions. Consider the following: A fantastic series of questions and answers from BBC to leading UK economicist types … Continue reading →

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Media and Tech Strategies in 2009

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There’s something telling (to me at least) in IBM’s earnings report.  CNBC gives us this brief insight: Revenue in services, IBM’s largest business segment, dropped 4 percent, but IBM was able to ink $17.2 billion in new services contracts. That … Continue reading →

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Jason Wu – Michelle Obama’s Impact on Business

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Outside of the oath and benediction speech, the Jason Wu designed dress was the most discussed, blogged, reported media factoid during this crazy inauguration. So what’s all that free press worth? So far, almost no traffic reported on Jason Wu’s … Continue reading →

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