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Video Game Violence Evolving Dangerously

Posted in analysis of behavior, social science, speculation, truth, video, video games, tagged , , , , , , on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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Media Created News

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, news, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

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A Biological-Like Economy?

Posted in economics, philosophy, politics, public policy, speculation, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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Media and Tech Strategies in 2009

Posted in business strategy, product development, software, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

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Santa, Magical Thinking, Education trump Consequences

Posted in analysis of behavior, behavior, biology, decision theory, economics, finance, government, human rights, media, politics, religion, science, social science, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

So, in a moment only Tony Robbins could love, I was doing my early morning stretches when my wife read the following:

Few things could be more dangerous than letting your children fall into the trap of believing what they do doesn’t matter. Teach them that there are consequences of their actions. Teach them that [...]

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Pseudo-Scientists ask: Is digital media rewiring our brains?

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, social networks, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Actually this is a provocative title to get parents and teachers to read online crap. Kinda ironical, don’t you think… it is supposed to sound like concerns from worried parents.
One brain scientist at UCLA, Gary Small, a psychiatrist, argues that daily exposure to digital technologies can alter how the brain works. “Brain scientist” [...]

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Is that racism I see coming? Set your phasers to ‘stun’

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, traffic, tagged , , , , , , , 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’ [...]

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Counterfactual Obsession

Posted in analysis of behavior, language, media, politics, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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Death to Political Rants and Soaking in the Political Media Frenzy

Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Boy is it hard to avoid political rants lately.  At this point, the major campaigns are all rant. The blogs and news outlets are mostly all rant.
There is very little INFORMATION, POLICY and ARGUMENT for citizens to evaluate.
We can make simple suggestions as to why this is the political process but the real causes and [...]

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Barack Obama’s Speech – Behaviorist Perspective, post 3

Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, politics, religion, speculation, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

John H. Bryant writes:
Behaviorally speaking, what happened when Barack Obama spoke on religion yesterday?For some, like the way I approached the speech and later his presentation, Obama’s speech might have seemed to be about religion… or perhaps the American Black experience… or perhaps the generational tug of our past with what is important to [...]

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