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Who Gives Us The Web?
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Given the rise of social media and user generated content it seems to be influencing brands and agencies to focus the message on us, the user. Siddarth Raman writes : Yahoo’s changed a lot over the years, from it’s dynamic homepage , which they are now actively marketing to handing over their search to Bing. I ...14 hours ago -
Intellectual Property In Bloggerville
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Most bloggers invite you to share their content far and wide on any one of many aggregation sites. But some people get really upset if you post that article on your own aggregation blog (even with full credit and back links). I am always amazed when I get that proverbial chest pumping quasi-barrister “cease and ...4 days ago -
Texting while driving riskier than taking calls
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Washington, Dec 23 (IANS) Beware of texting while driving as it is riskier than attending calls when behind the wheel, says a new study.It found that texters in a driving simulator had more crashes, responded more slowly to brake lights on cars just ahead of them, than those who used a cellphone for making calls [...]4 days ago -
Why texting is more dangerous than talking while driving
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Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): A new study by University of Utah has shed light on why texting while driving is riskier than talking on a cell phone or with another passenger.In the study, Frank Drews and colleagues found that texters in a driving simulator had more crashes, responded more slowly to brake lights on cars ...4 days ago -
Creating Social Media Value: Part 4
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This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Creating Social Media Value The term engagement is being used to frame how brands can use the social web to engage their audience. On the other side of the term “engagement” is methods used by people to engage people in relevant and relative conversations. So on ...1 week ago -
Automated to Sleep
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Here’s a nice editorial in The New York Times . Pilots on Autopilot ”Decades of technological enhancements and automation have made flying undeniably much safer but also fostered a subtle disconnect between pilots and the planes they fly. Designed to reduce crew workload and enhance safety, today’s highly ...1 week ago -
Northwest 188 -- Clearance Limit
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Who has thought of it ? Have you ? In all the writing about NWA188 -- in all the stories -- has anybody said a single thing about their clearance limit and the implications of it ? ” CLEARANCE LIMIT - The fix, point, or location to which an aircraft is cleared when issued an air traffic clearance .“ The ...2 weeks ago -
Servant Leadership: Ten Characteristics
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This entry is part 17 of 17 in the series Conversational Currency Editor’s note: The rules of engagement in social media are not new, nor are they secret, complicated, inaccessible, or attainable only by the gifted, wealthy or beautiful people. No religion holds a monopoly influence, nor does any race ...2 weeks ago -
Bad news from California: MRSA quadrupled
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Via the Fresno Business Journal and the Torrance Daily Breeze come reports of a new study by Californias Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development: Known MRSA cases in the states hospitals increased four-fold between 1999 and 2007, from 13,000 to 52,000 cases per year. From the Torrance paper: ...2 weeks ago -
Social Uncertainty Principle
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Continuing the previous discussion of object bias and conceptions of time … As a very rough rule of thumb I like to apply a kind of generalized version of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle : “the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and ...2 weeks ago -
My guest-post elsewhere: Bad news on hospital error rates
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Its been 10 years since the publication of the pathbreaking Institute of Medicine report, " To Err is Human, " which for the first time focused policy attention on medical errors. The Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative has been running a two-week special series of posts to mark the occasion, and ...2 weeks ago -
The Social Media Stampede of 2010?
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This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Social Media Directions It is happening. Everywhere you turn, online and off-line, everyone is discussing or publishing stories about social media. The level of attention is akin to a loud noise created by a stampede. You can hear it in the distance but you can’t tell ...3 weeks ago -
The Social Media Polls Say……
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Traditional media attempts to control messages so they can influence an audience to believe their bias. We see it in politics, marketing, research and even in conversations. One way the “media” controls the message is by hand-selecting which polls get reported. Polls are used to determine the sentiment of a the ...3 weeks ago -
Why it pays to think about the whole system, not just your local function
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Ability to do bulk price mark-downs? Nice to have. Today we are looking at a large UK supermarket stock control system. At the end of the day the staff mark down prices on the short-life items (sandwiches etc). They have a hand held scanner with a belt printer. Scan item - print label - stick label on item. ...3 weeks ago -
Drinking The Social Media Kool-Aid?
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This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Social Media Directions This post may seem harsh but is meant to expand our thinking, mine included. Bear with me. It seems that popular bloggers and communities are creating a “ cult like ” following of readers who buy into published perspectives. People follow ...3 weeks ago -
What Will Bend Social Media?
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This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Social Media Directions We hear and read about “shifts” created by technology and examples of the influence on markets propagate daily. Marketers jump on these shift vying for our attention aimed at ultimately “tricking us into a transaction”. The irony of this ...4 weeks ago -
Its Time for a Revolution in Notebook Cursor Control Devices--Blindfold and Put the Trackpads Up Against the Wall.
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Notebook trackpad cursor controllers may be the single biggest design problems effecting consumer notebook designs. The most important element of the portable computer notebook design is the user experience. And that boils down to how easily someone can unpack their machine, set down in front of a keyboard and ...4 weeks ago -
A Strategy For Social Media ROI?
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This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series social media directions There has been lots of debate about the ROI from social media. As discussed previously the debate reflects old strategic thinking that says everything must be measured against an ROI. That old thinking reflects “legacy knowledge” and old ...4 weeks ago -
Information Design and the aviator
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Information design, pilot training and flight safety. The part it plays. David McCandless and Information is Beautiful.5 weeks ago
