Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, economics, information theory, media, online advertising, social networks, traffic, tagged technology, learning, environment, security, content, ownership, machine intelligence, perception, speech-to-text, software on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
The ritual:
Using speech-to-text software trained to my voice, I get to process the world’s media (including environmental sounds) in a way that usurps the originator’s intent and content. The software is as imperfect as my notes are and misrepresents sentiments as well as police sirens as text, translating the mumblings as dialogue. What’s more, [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, media, online advertising, politics, social networks, tagged politics, animal behavior, conditioning, learning, new ideas, networking, ethology, revealed truths on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Interesting:
I was recently asked why I used the term “emergent” in a statement on development in the central nervous system. I thought it the right word in fit, form and function but preceded to look it up in several references works to hone in on it best use. What I found was something [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, tagged behavior, complexity, conditioning, consequences, fear, home, learning, magical thinking, office, politics, questioning, Statistics, superstition, training, value 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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Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, social networks, tagged context, corporate babble, education, learning, politics, training on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
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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Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, politics, tagged baby-boomers, business, change, conditioning, employees, employers, gaps, learning, performance, testing, training on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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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Posted in analysis of behavior, social networks, tagged Alda, behvior, christakis, conditioning, facebook, integration, learning, metaphors, myspace, parsimony, Rushkoff, social networks, value based on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
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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