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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Ayn Rand Popular Again?
CNN’s got a little piece on the upswing in Rand sales. Their LA Festival of Books booth was a corner booth and much bigger than in previous years. BUT… Where was this popularity when Free Market was crashing down? Right. … Continue reading
Posted in behavior, Book Reviews, business strategy, economics, philosophy, science
Tagged atlas shrugged, ayn rand, fountainhead, free market, objectivism
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Functional Reading versus Aesthetic Reading
eBooks and eReaders are purely functional at this point. They lack the aesthetics that fine paper, solid bindings, great typesets and full color printing provides. I love to read aestheticly and functionally. I love my Kindle 2 AND I love … Continue reading
Posted in biology, Book Reviews, literature
Tagged Darwin, E.O.Wilson, ebook, ereaders, kindle, origin of the species, physical books, reading
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Do We Need Innovation in Web Search?
No. Not really. This is the main reason most new search engines fail. This is also why refreshes to existing search engines with radical features don’t work particularly well either. It’s really a misconception that search engines could be made … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, data mining, search, web 2.0
Tagged google, microsoft, search, search engines, sem, seo, SERP, yahoo
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Facebook Addiction?
This is genius. Kudos to the editor who thought that one up. I cannot begin to tell you the insight I gained from this. Can you believe there are people that sit on Facebook all the time? Can you believe … Continue reading
Escher Animation
Perhaps my eariler post today wasn’t your company.. but is this more like it? Nice animation!
Posted in animation, anthropology, behavior, business strategy
Tagged mc escher, stairs, strange loop, up and down
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Is this your company?
In world full of fossils, the slightest movement of a pebble on the slope of the cliff is nearly enough to bring on a whole series of heart attacks–so you can imagine what happens when someone dynamites the whole mountain! … Continue reading
Susan Boyle Singing Success Uncovered
Oy, the pop psychologists and media sociologists are out in full force on the latest pop culture sensation, Susan Boyle. Read all the theories in those links. don’t judge a book by its cover ordinary people do extraordinary things it’s … Continue reading
Posted in american idol, analysis of behavior, anthropology, philosophy, Television, truth
Tagged pop psycology, success, susan boyle, talent, ugly duckingly, underdog, why
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Synthesis is Key To Success of Newspapers, Magazines and Publishers
It’s a safe assumption that every newspaper and publisher has access to the basic data created and shared by the world. Newspapers and publishers can use Freebase or Wikipedia or some other aggregator/syndication service to fill their websites and their … Continue reading
Reflecting on Reflecting
From AC Grayling: My final question is about the way we’re going to be reading, communicating and reflecting in the future. At the moment, we’re all very interested to know about the future in these respects. Not the future of … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, philosophy
Tagged codex, philosophy, reading, reflection, written word
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