January 2010
111 posts
Overcoming Bias : Swinger Trends →
My guess on the focus switch is that women less fear seeming slutty today. Whereas once swinging women might have been with several men in one night, they drew the line at being with see as with many…
Google Economist Explains Why You Won't Pay For... →
To the extent that reading an actual newspaper is an activity in itself, Varian argued, people are willing to pay for it, in a way they aren’t willing to pay for a couple minutes of distraction at…
The Problem of Forced Fun - The Conversation -... →
In this new cultural convention, being really excited all the time is patently inauthentic, not least because we know that peak moments of emotion are by their nature occasional.
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“Google knows more about your customers than you do.”
– Dustin Currie
Pre-testing fails to identify most effective ads -... →
Analysing these same case studies, he found that just 4% of campaigns that were subjected to qualitative pre-testing went on to deliver “very large profit growth”, a total that rose to 24% for those…
Is Indie Dead? :: Culture :: Features :: Paste →
Indie is, at once, a genre (of music first, and then of film, books, video games and anything else with a perceived arty sensibility, regardless of its relationship to a corporation), an ethos, a…
Women Go For Cheaper Brunette Hair - Jacksonville... →
Local stylists are reporting a trend in women’s hair seems to be going from light to dark, and it appears to be related to the troubled economy.
L'Hôte: The "Apple Advantage" is class signalling... →
But— if you find people are talking about Apple in pseudo-mythical terms; if people are endorsing a vision of Apple or Steve Jobs as anything other than capitalists with the sole priority of making…
Book of Odds--America’s Most Popular States: The... →
Here’s a closer look of what life is like in America’s most desired states.
Future of advertising on e readers? →
Future of advertising on e readers? Chat with @dustincurrie and I
Future of Advertising on E-readers? Chat with...
plingyplang: if kindle and tablet are really going to be the way people read newspapers and magazines
plingyplang: and it's not supported by advertising
plingyplang: wtf is my industry going to do?
wheatplanter: it will be ad supported
wheatplanter: but, yeah, print designers are not going to be in high demand
wheatplanter: interactive + video ads
plingyplang: I wonder if you could integrate targeted ads to appear in strategic plot points
wheatplanter: oh, of course
plingyplang: like if they're talking about a feast, a McDonalds ad pops up and you don't have a choice
wheatplanter: that's what mobile ads are all about
wheatplanter: even better, reading an article on the subway and an ad for the McD's on your next stop comes up
plingyplang: ohhhh location based too I hadn't thought of that
Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Contrasts in How Google... →
Someone once told me that there is nowhere we are more honest than the search box. We don’t lie to Google. Period. We type in what we’re thinking — good, bad, and ugly. There’s probably no piece of…
Let's have fun with the Google search box. - By... →
The Google search box has become the new oracle at Delphi, the thing we consult before all major undertakings. How do I know this?
When should we trust someone's reputation and when... →
However, the link between reputation and behavior was stronger for some individuals than others—specifically, for individuals who were more well-known and received more social attention in the…
Op-Ed Columnist - The Populist Addiction -... →
They’ve taken to dividing the country into two supposedly separate groups — real Americans who live on Main Street and the insidious interests of Wall Street.
OMG: brains can’t handle all our Facebook friends... →
Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, has conducted research revealing that while social networking sites allow us to maintain more relationships, the number of…
Jersey Shore Joins the Canon - The Atlantic... →
But Jersey Shore’s stars are part of a much longer artistic tradition: humiliation and bad decisions at the beach.
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Chat with @dustincurrie on Web apps vs. iPhone...
plingyplang: someone on twitter asked, "are web apps the future of iphone apps?"
plingyplang: to me I feel like, an app that ran on safari for iphone would be crappy, and the whole point of iphone apps is that they're native to the device
plingyplang: what you need is a device that's more native to the way the internet works
plingyplang: not the other way around
wheatplanter: oh, completely the way of the future
wheatplanter: 100% no dudo
wheatplanter: rendering engine + javascript + API to phone
wheatplanter: that's what the palm pre does
wheatplanter: webapps are completely the future
plingyplang: yay I love when I think of something like that and you agree
wheatplanter: aint just me...it's almost the entire webdev world
wheatplanter: btw, google voice, as I've already said, is awesome
wheatplanter: and doing it as a webapp?
wheatplanter: genius
plingyplang: totally
plingyplang: man google is going to kill apple
wheatplanter: with google voice, voicemails get translated to text
wheatplanter: also get turned into downloadable mp3s
wheatplanter: you can send SMS from the browser
wheatplanter: complete browser integration with phone
wheatplanter: fucking retarded that telecoms haven't done that yet
wheatplanter: apple had the opportunity of a lifetime to redefine the phone experience
wheatplanter: with iphone success
wheatplanter: instead of doing something like google voice, they focus on "apps"
wheatplanter: morons.
plingyplang: dude i know
plingyplang: I cant wait for google to take over
plingyplang: it's like apple did all the work of getting people to pay for smartphones
wheatplanter: sending and recieving voicemails and text messages from browser = awesome and no reason why it's not standard
plingyplang: yeah why do we need more than one medium of communication
plingyplang: when one does ALL of them
wheatplanter: yes. communications integration
wheatplanter: it's what google gets
wheatplanter: apple is still in the mindset of selling products
South Korea’s pop-cultural exports: Hallyu, yeah!... →
hallyu, or the love of South Korean cultural exports. An international phenomenon, hallyu is driving Seoul’s nascent but growing influence across Asia
YouTube - "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs.... →
Bats and dolphins separately evolved same sonar... →
The finding is unusual, because although many creatures have independently evolved characteristics such as eyes, tusks or wings, they usually took diverse genetic routes to get there.
Essay - Our Boredom, Ourselves - NYTimes.com →
Boredom, like the modern novel, was born in the 18th century, and came into full flower in the 19th. The Oxford English Dictionary’s first recorded use of “to bore” dates to a 1768 letter by the Earl…
Nicholas Felton | Feltron.com →
The Facts About Bottled Water →
How to Create Insights | Digital Tonto →
What can seem like a great idea when mutually reinforced among colleagues in the office often falls flat in the marketplace. Moreover, those of us who are senior managers often find our ideas…
Andy Kershaw: Stop treating these people like... →
Theory of mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Theory of mind is a theory insofar as the mind is not directly observable.[2] The presumption that others have a mind is termed a theory of mind because each human can only prove the existence of his…
The content is the Cargo →
The leased life - The Boston Globe →
Rentalic is an example of what is sometimes called (rather awkwardly) a “product service system.” The essential insight is that in many purchases, we don’t want the thing per se - we want what it can…
Why did U.S. aid focus on securing Haiti rather... →
According to the Telegraph, it took the intervention of the United Nations for the United States to agree to prioritize humanitarian flights over military deliveries.
Recipe: Whole Wheat Noodles With Spicy Peanut... →
Spanking And "Middle Class Acculturation" -... →
For better or worse, these are the norms of the present American middle class. Some cultural behaviors tend to be carried along by groups, even as they ascend the social ladder - cuisine springs to…
Social Science Statistics Blog: visualizing the... →
Many Eyes lets you use textual data, so I just tried it out using the majority and dissenting opinions from Citizens United v. FEC, today’s Supreme Court’s decision striking down existing campaign…
Many Eyes →
Does feeling like a victim make you selfish?: -... →
Three experiments demonstrated that feeling wronged leads to a sense of entitlement and to selfish behavior
If Murdered Hall of Fame - If Murdered, Make Sure... →
Complex societies = simple languages : Gene... →
Languages such as English, which spread with complex and expansive political orders, seem to exhibit a tendency toward simplicity. The reason behind this is straightforward: adult language learners…
FCC Public Notice →
FCC LAUNCHES EXAMINATION OF THE FUTURE OF MEDIA AND INFORMATION NEEDS OF COMMUNITIES IN A DIGITAL AGE
World Government Data | guardian.co.uk →
Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing you to check out, visualise and analyse the numbers for yourself. This is the Guardian’s gateway to that information. Search…
FT.com / UK - A species apart →
Since China allowed the first internet connection to be established 16 years ago, global attention has been focused on how the web is changing the country. To those in the west who saw the web as an…
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends →
Notice that, however, that flirting away from the camera is the single worst attitude a woman can take. Certain social etiquettes apply even online: if you’re going to be making eyes at someone, it…
De Gustibus - Snacking Nation - When Did Grazing... →
Between 1977 and 2002, the percent of the American population eating three or more snacks a day increased to 42 percent from 11 percent, according to a large study of American nutritional habits…
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) - Caleb... →
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) - Caleb Larsen
Want to convince someone? Use abstract rather than... →
When consumers talk to each other about products, they generally respond more favorably to abstract language than concrete descriptions, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Do number sounds influence consumers? - Barking up... →
“Phonetic symbolism affects price perceptions because consumers typically process, encode, and retain numbers (and hence prices) in memory in multiple formats,” the authors write. Consumers encode…
Bundle: The No. 1 Source for How People Spend and... →
The 24-Hour Cycle at Clean Rite Laundromat in... →
“In a laundromat you get a lot of eye drama,” he said. “That’s when someone may or may not like you and they look at you and you look at them and then you try not to look at them. So my rule is if…
CultureLab →
Why Strokes Front Man Julian Casablancas Is Still... →
Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy... →
The privileged folks don’t have to worry so much about people who hold power over them observing them online. That’s the very definition of privilege. But most everyone else does. And forcing people…