Monthly Archives: February 2007

New York Salaries

Posted on February 27, 2007 by

New York Magazine has a great piece showing the salaries of hundreds of people in many professions, all of whom are based in NYC.    There’s even a description of salary trends and amounts in sectors like publishing and TV … Continue reading →

Posted in entertainment, marketing, news, research | 3 Comments

China to internet gaming addicts – !/!/! zzzzzZAP!/!/!

Posted on February 27, 2007 by

This “Internet Gaming Addicts” post was moved to the new blog

Posted in china, internet, news, Science & Technology | Leave a comment

Industry sponsored research? Leave it on the shelf!

Posted on February 27, 2007 by

Over at Marketing Pilgrim, an excellent resource from Andy Beal and friends, I’ve been giving Jordan a hard time about citing a radio industry study that (surprise!) shows that radio is awesomely effective. I see a ton of this in … Continue reading →

Posted in research, tourism, travel | 4 Comments

Lomborg on “Climate Hysteria”

Posted on February 26, 2007 by

As concerned as I have been about the scientific sensationalism and downright deceptive presentations in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth“, I was rooting for Al last night at the Oscars. Perhaps as consolation prize for losing the US Presidency? Contrary … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Warming, Globalization, personal, Politics, Poverty and Development, science, Science & Technology | 15 Comments

Where did that $14,000,000,000,000.00 go again?

Posted on February 26, 2007 by

It struck me how great it would be to have a website to track government spending, which even to the most enthusiastic tax and spender often falls short of the mark.   One of the reasons federal spending is so wildly … Continue reading →

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Blogging x 10 years

Posted on February 25, 2007 by

Dan Farber has a nice commentary on the state of blogging after 10 years based on his informal confab with Dave Winer, who arguably is the inventor of blogging. 10 years of blogging is misleading in the sense that the … Continue reading →

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Oscar predictions using search engine results? Not very accurate!?

Posted on February 25, 2007 by

WordTracker, which measures search queries, was used to predict tonights Oscar winners. Here’s the story from PRWEB. It looks like this approach could go down in flames based on Alan Arkin’s Best Supporting Actor win given that he had a … Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, entertainment, movies | 3 Comments

Ringtone Scams are about 99% of that business … so beware!

Posted on February 25, 2007 by

I  *hate* the ringtones business because it represents so much of what is wrong with the internet and wrong with people.   Here’s one post about some of the millions of problems that plague the Ringtones Scam industry – a very … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, companies, entertainment, games, scams, Websites | 24 Comments

Blinkx

Posted on February 25, 2007 by

Blinkx is a brilliant video search program that allows people to search *within* videos for specific content.  This has become one of the holy grails of search because the internet is now awash in video content. Tastes vary but almost … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, companies, entertainment, Google, marketing, mashup, movies, news, search, videos, Web 2.0, Youtube | Leave a comment

Robots and emotions

Posted on February 23, 2007 by

The BBC reports that a project is trying to teach robots to react to humans in emotional ways.   Sounds cool, though I’d suggest it’s always important to make a distinction between when a thinking mechanism can *talk* so much … Continue reading →

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, computers, science, Science & Technology | 4 Comments