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Avoiding the Passion Pop Gulf
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on May 05, 2008
Here's a new curve for you: I'm calling it the passion/pop curve. That bell curve to the left represents acceptance by the focused/excited/tastemaking community. Those are the people who love microbeers and haute couture and Civil War memorabilia. Like all market curves, there's a sweet spot. Go too nutsy on us ($90,000 turntables, for example) and even the committed will flee. Go...
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not another 8 ways post.
via Levite Chronicles by Jon Swanson on May 09, 2008
When I drive, I think. When I drive at the end of a confusing day, my thinking takes on a peculiar, stream-of-something tone. Such was the case yesterday when I tweeted, “Among the how-to books, are there any whether-to books?”I was inspired by yet another how-to book on the seat of the car, just checked out of the library at the recommendation of a friend. Having looked at it overnight, I am...
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Some China firms outsourcing to USA to cut costs
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on May 07, 2008
An article in the LA Times this week on businesses from China bargain-hunting on operational costs by outsourcing to the USA:Liu Keli couldn't tell you much about South Carolina, not even where it is in the United States. It's as obscure to him as his home region, Shanxi province, is to most Americans.But Liu is investing $10 million in the Palmetto State, building a printing-plate...
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iRex launches new iLiad Book Edition e-book reader - Engadget
via www.engadget.com by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Gerd Saurer maybe I will by it
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Comic for May 7, 2008
via Dilbert Daily Strip by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
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The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
via in over your head by Julien on May 02, 2008
This video is about an hour long, but it is required viewing in my book. Information is power.(Hat tip to Economist’s View.)
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Ben Fry conference talk
via information aesthetics by (author unknown) on April 28, 2008
a recent talk from Ben Fry at the See Conference ("Conference onVisualization of Information"), showing a lot of older & a few new visualization works. in addition, there are videos of talks from the performance artist Zachary Lieberman, science fiction author Bruce Sterling& visualization researcher Frank van Ham of the IBM Visual Communication Lab. you will need to visit the See Conference...
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A Successful Experiment
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Sarah Milstein on April 24, 2008
During Web2Open yesterday, we ran an experiment that turned out to be a big success. Because it felt like a model that could be extended and used by others--but it hasn't been blogged about widely--I'll explain here what we did.We started with the idea that we wanted to hold a conference speed-dating event. But we didn't have a natural set of pairs who'd want to meet, like VCs and...
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The Informational Distance Between Cities
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on April 24, 2008
Information Aesthetics points to an interesting visualization of the "informational" relation between cities. Two cities are "informationally" related if they are often mentioned together, so the visualization uses the number of Google results to approximate the distance:Gdistance(w1,w2) = (#(w1)+#(w2)) / (#(w1+" and "+w2)+#(w2+" and "+w1)),where #(w) is the number of Google search results for...
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Progressive Announced as Title Sponsor for Automotive X PRIZE
via News - RSS by Jean Levasseur on March 21, 2008
On Thursday, March 20 at the New York International Auto Show, the X PRIZE Foundation and Progressive (NYSE:PGR) jointly announced the company’s Title Sponsorship of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE competition and its funding of the $10 million prize purse. See Video of the Announcement Press Conference at the New York Auto Show: Part One; Part Two; Part Three
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