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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Human Behavior is a Strange Loop
Please listen to this file. It’s called the Shepard Risset glissando. It’s very unnerving to me. If I were to put sound to various cause and effect data trails from complex systems (like human behavior), I imagine it would sound … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, determinism, philosophy, quantum mechanics, science, social science, speculation
Tagged behavior, cause and effect, dualism, duality, strange, strange loop
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No, really why advertising is failing online…
Update 3/29/09: Danny Sullivan correctly pointed out to me that he is a publisher and an advertiser. I’ll disagree on the idea that he is a “real user”, by which I meant “regular user”, because he is not nor I … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, business strategy, economics, finance, metrics, search, social networks, software
Tagged ads, advertising, analytics, banner ads, business models, cpc, cpm, internet advertising, online ads, performance, ppc, subscription models, techcrunch, tracking
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DISINTEGRATING
From an Invited Guest Author: Ron Williams… Republican Party is disintegrating. In many ways this is unfortunate. I have read the Republican Party platform and I find that I can agree with many of their positions, such as immigration and … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, economics, government, politics, taxes
Tagged GOP platform, republican party platform
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Fighting for $165 million but not Health Care? Bigger Bailouts? Getting out of Iraq?
In human interactions, there’s nothing like an enemy – a casual face to a problem. With AIG, the outrage at the bonuses is hitting a high fever pitch. In fact, the outrage is seemingly out of whack for the offense … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, philosophy, politics
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Function vs. Perfection
What seems to be missing from a lot of online business models is the balance between function – does it work – vs. perfect – is it best of breed/do everything you ever wanted/beautiful. It might be alarming to some, … Continue reading
Posted in product development, programming, software, web 2.0
Tagged business model, function, perfection, product development
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Wolfram|Alpha? – Computing we were promised 50 years ago?
An interesting approach to knowledge mentioned in Stephen Wolfram’s blog: But what about all the actual knowledge that we as humans have accumulated? A lot of it is now on the web—in billions of pages of text. And with search … Continue reading
Unsold Cars Around the World – Why Visuals Help!
If you were ever wondering what it really means to have car sales numbers off each month by 40%+ for the last 6 months, visit this unique pictorial. [credit for finding the pictorial goes to my east coast insider, mindbender … Continue reading
Overstating the Federal Budget To Improve Negotiations
Do you think President Obama and his administration proposed the largest deficit in history by far to improve the chances that a meaningful budget will get through eventually? That is, as is often done in business, has Obama spit out … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, economics, politics, public policy, social science
Tagged deficit, federal budget, FY 2010 budget, national debt, President Obama
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