links for 2008-03-07
The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos [Some good and some very very bad advice.] (tags: advertising advice branding business comments communication i...
Author: charlie
Ty Burr on ‘10,000 BC’: Yabba-dabba-don’t
Ty Burr is great. Link: Yabba-dabba-don’t – The Boston Globe: How can a film that features a poorly shot attack by giant tree-climbing killer chicke...
links for 2008-03-06
After 160 years, a wild gray wolf turns up in Mass. – The Boston Globe “A wild Eastern gray wolf roamed Western Massachusetts last fall before being...
links for 2008-03-05
Hoping to Make Phone Buyers Flip – New York Times “These days, designing a new mobile phone can seem like something out of an episode of “Dr. Phil.”...
‘Facebook fatigue’?
While I am part of the Facebook bashers (well, bashers of the current Facebook craze), I always feel that I am dead wrong, since so many folks are still signing...
Twitter Stats: Relationship Distribution
Finally found out that Twitter has been publishing a few stats on usage.* Pretty interesting. One that got me was the distribution of how many people per user i...
links for 2008-03-04
HobbyPrincess: Social Objects project (tags: SocialMedia Social research thinglink socialobjects socialpivot) Forside – M o r m o r . n u (tags: crowdsour...
Well, what do you know? Craig Venter going to Harvard as a visiting scholar
My wife pointed out, once more, a link to something on Venter (link below to blurb). I wonder if she wants me to work with him. [Nope, irrelevant inference.] An...
links for 2008-03-03
Einstein’s Riddle – Can You Solve It? [the key is to relax] (tags: riddle puzzle mindhack)
Entropy is over-rated. Long live Complexity! (Bonus: The Venter)
Does everything tend towards Entropy? One of the first things we learn in chemistry is that everything tends towards entropy. How can that be? Whereas Steven Jo...