Read a great piece today (which I found on Slashdot…) on the state of violence in video games. It’s remarkable in that it’s author is a life long gamer (like myself) and he starts to drop some value anchors.
If we come to that, should it be illegal to simulate player imposed suffering of photorealistic humans [...]
Posts Tagged ‘media’
Media Created News
Posted in analysis of behavior, media, news, tagged CNN, David Letterman, Fire Dave, media, palin, sarah palin on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A nice example of how the 24/7 “news” cycle forces the media to generate news to fill in the blog posts and airwaves.
Media personnel far outnumber the David Letterman protestors.
Pretty hilarious picture. Not so hilarious when this stuff is taking coverage away from actual issues… like health care reform, Iran, North Korea, a couple trillion [...]
A Biological-Like Economy?
Posted in economics, philosophy, politics, public policy, speculation, tagged black swan, capitalism 2.0, economy, media, Taleb on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From a recent essay by NN Taleb:
Then we will see an economic life closer to our biological environment: smaller companies, richer ecology, no leverage. A world in which entrepreneurs, not bankers, take the risks and companies are born and die every day without making the news.
My question is… do we actually need to establish these [...]
Media and Tech Strategies in 2009
Posted in business strategy, product development, software, web 2.0, tagged IBM, IBM earnings, maintenance, media, revenue, tech 2009 on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 was a healthy showing that demonstrates companies are still forking out for outsourcing and other technical [...]
Is that racism I see coming? Set your phasers to ‘stun’
Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, traffic, tagged Add new tag, additive to communicaiton, media, obama, phase, popular, Racism, verbiage on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are about to go into a “phase” as my mother used to refer to my dependence on a specific set of terms, ideas or behavior. That phase is going to be around for awhile and it’s going to drive us nuttier than a 4 year presidential election campaign. It is a ‘racism’ [...]
Counterfactual Obsession
Posted in analysis of behavior, language, media, politics, tagged counterfactual, media, politics, pundit, strategy on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When was the last time you used a counterfactual statement? (for definition and examples check here.)
Most likely you dropped one within the last 24 hours. Counterfactual history litters our sports, finance, media/technology, political and intellectual discourse constantly nowadays.
In Sports:
“If Michael Phelps didn’t win 8 golds, …”
“If LT played during the preason, the Chargers would be….”
….
In [...]
