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Archive for September, 2009

Google Chrome Frame, Mozilla and IE- Internet Wakes Up and Learns it’s in BUSINESS

Posted in advertising, business strategy, google, product development, search, social networks, software, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There’s an amazing thing going on.  It’s a small little product release that few folks outside of the techworld cover.  The release and tech uproar over Google Chrome Frame. Why do I say this?  Oh, well, some folks at Google woke up and realized there are such things as platform dependencies and you pick the [...]

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Dog Behavior and “Intelligence”

Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, science, tagged , , , , on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Though TIME completely misrepresents the article with the title of this piece the article is quite nice.  Most of the findings are quite straightforward and the utility of the article is that it does a nice job of illustrating how genetics and learning combine to explain behavior (and “intelligence”). Here’s a nice example from the [...]

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The Tale of The Long Tail – Anderson wasn’t all that right

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, decision theory, economics, education, science, tagged , , , , on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Having myself dug through at least 30 companies traffic and sales data over the last decade I agree with these Wharton researchers. The Wharton researchers also disagree with Anderson’s theory and its implicit challenge to the Pareto principle, or so-called 80-20 rule, which in this case would state that 20% of the movie titles generate [...]

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Dead Boys Review – Lange Delivers a Punch to your Gut

Posted in Book Reviews, Los Angeles, tagged , , , , , , , on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Damn.  Dead Boys, by Richard Lange, is one crazy collection of short stories.  (I came into this book by way of the Small World books employee, Phil.  Good choice, Phil!) Dead boys is definitely edgy.  Essentially it’s a collection of raw, LA based short stories mostly about down-and-out folks who sometimes dip into criminal activity [...]

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10 Personal Pressing Questions

Posted in philosophy, religion, research, speculation, tagged , , , , on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s my top 10 most pressing questions in life. Can you be satisfied and functional AND integrate the idea that there is no universal meaning? Is ignorance bliss? How long will it take for us to give up on free will?  will we ever do that? Will technology take over for athletic skill in all sports? [...]

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The Jay Leno Show Review and Reactions, Kayne West Ratings Boost?

Posted in Reality TV, Television, celebrity, media, tagged , , , , , on September 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »

The Jay Leno Show has been widely discussed.  Is it a fundamental shift in TV? does it change the economics?  Will it flop? Will others follow? Pre-launch reactions weren’t really positive nor negative.  However, tonight’s airing didn’t really seem to knock people’s socks off. The ratings will have to be the final verdict. BUT…. (it [...]

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Dolt Exhaust: The True Value of Emotion

Posted in Reality TV, analysis of behavior, behavior, celebrity, government, health care, life, media, music, politics, social science on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Does anyone see the irony AND similarity between the Wilson shout-out, “You lie…!” during President Obama’s address September 9th, 2009, on health-care legislation to a joint session of Congress and the Kanye West shout-out that he thought Beyoncé deserved to win the Moonman for Best Female Video. Wilson, 62, shouted “you lie” at Obama during [...]

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Prime Minister Brown’s Apology to Alan Turing [Transcript Included]

Posted in behavior, computer science, tagged , , , , , on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m delighted to see a posthumous apology given to Alan Turing.  It’s hard to assign grand meaning or value to these types of apologies usually.  Perhaps even in this case.  What I think is great about it is that it calls attention to a person who many might not know provided a lot of the [...]

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