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Monthly Archives: November 2008
How about some realistic expectations, more experimentation, and less punditry about punditry?
Fred Clark offers up his theory as to why things are as dire as they are for the newspaper industry – that the expectation for profit margins has been grown to something unrealistic these past twenty years: Why oh why … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving
I have much to be thankful for. Great family, good friends, challenging work, passions and interests that keep me engaged with the world in all sorts of ways. I try to count my blessings everyday. I know that at anytime, … Continue reading
Posted in Emma, Friends, Family and Life
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Living in the public – not there yet
Jeff Jarvis: The perils of publicness: There’s an old social norm at work here that is, I think, an extension of old media, which says: You put yourself out there, so you put yourself at risk for getting attacked. This … Continue reading
Posted in Public Service, Civics, Government and Activism
Tagged privacy, sociology, web
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The more things change….
Dave Rogers: Blind Faith: As the stock market continues its free fall into the Clinton era, and the economic news grows worse and worse, we are cheered by the report of a study that indicates that “Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not … Continue reading
Beyond Sad
NYTimes: Nebraska Revises Child Safe Haven Law: The Legislature on Friday revised an unusual law permitting parents to hand children up to age 18 over to state custody without prosecution, instead limiting its reach to infants up to 30 days … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Family and Life, Public Service, Civics, Government and Activism
Tagged class, family, outrage
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What is Cognitive Science?
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Cognitive Science: Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. Its intellectual origins are in the mid-1950s when researchers in several fields began to develop … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Connection, the Internet, the Web, and Media, Friends, Family and Life, Public Service, Civics, Government and Activism
Tagged cogsci, health, psychology
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You don’t need to knock a man down to argue his ideas
No one is above criticism, but the knock Jeff Jarvis took from Slate from Ron Rosenbaum missed the mark badly. It attempted to paint Jarvis as just another new media guru in pursuit of a buck it at the expense … Continue reading
Evil and… advertising?
“Advertising is social psychology. To understand how advertising affects people, you have to understand why people follow the group and how the brain works.” – Ad Savvy on Philip Zimbardo, whose talk at TED explains how ordinary people can become … Continue reading
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Tagged cogsci, psychology
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More on Bad Agile
Steve Yegge talks about Google’s development (circa 2006) process – a process that is focused on being agile – and riffs on just how bad “Bad Agile” can be: Good Agile, Bad Agile: Bad Agile hurts teams in several ways. … Continue reading
It’s been a little harder on Mommy and Daddy than her
The last two nights Emma has slept soundly in her new toddler bed. Emma had moved fast transitioning from a bassinet to a crib and from our room to her own nursery. We moved a bit slower in moving her … Continue reading