Jan 5 |
 I wrote a response to Rene Dechamps "What if all we had was Omniture and Google Analytics?" that (I'm guessing) will be appearing soon here. I answer Rene's question from a different background and perspective than that of other commentators because a) I don't have their background or perspective and 2) I've often discovered the more tools I apply to something the more likely I am to discover inadequacies in the original propositions. In this case, what if we consider this a question of systems ecology, adaptive and evolutionary biology, environmental modeling, etc.?
I mention there that I'll provide a bibliography for interested readers here. This is a very partial bibliography of things I read over the month of preparing my comment. Feel free to contact me if you'd like a complete list. The references here are merely the highlights and probably give enough to get one going in the correct direction. Enjoy.
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Dec29 |
Here I continue to respond to WindKiller's comments, this time his missal on What Tivo Guilt, etc., tells us about ourselves. And do let me say that I seriously enjoy these blogversations. Consider that an open invitation to take part. As before, WindKiller's thoughts are in italics, my responses in normal text.
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Dec17 |
Frequent reader, commenter, contributor and friend WindKiller offered a worthy and long comment to my "You are so fundamentally WRONG" post. For those unaware, that post had to do with a strange email our R&D group received. This email was such an oddity that I decided to publish it as a blog post and solicit readers' thoughts. (and after reading this post, I encourage readers to share their thoughts on why I did so) Here I'll respond to WindKiller's musings regarding that email. WindKiller's thoughts are in italics text, my responses are in normal text.
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Dec 4 |
My friend Brad Berens' recent "TiVo Guilt" conversation continues and my researching something totally unrelated and meeting at Hecate's crossroads is yet another example of serendipity's action in my life. While searching something completely unrelated I came upon some research conducted at Wake Forest in the late '90s early '00s. <ASIDE>
A recent conversation with another friend, this one about the meaning of "voluble", led to my "...oh, for the days when we simply heaved our Oxford English/American Dictionary onto the table with a resounding crash, looked up the word of interest, followed it to other words we never knew existed and left sated in our knowledge..."
</ASIDE> So there I was doing a journal search on prime Ramanujan numbers one day after conversing with Brad about his new found fame and discovered research that indicates (rather strongly) that people who are prey to addictions, guilts, etc., conceive of themselves as being lower in the social order than those who...ahem...don't suffer from such maledictions. And I think this is where I point to...
Links for this post: The true guffaw for me in all this is that -- and as Brad has heard me say repeatedly -- I don't think I'm that important. I don't count myself as particularly high on anybody's social order, especially my own. Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on this and other topics. Sign up for the NextStage Irregular, our very irregular, definitely frequency-wise and probably topic-wise newsletter.
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Dec 2 |
This blog's title comes from an email R&D received early in Nov 08. Twice, actually. The author sent it twice within a relatively short period of time. Perhaps our spam trapping system confused them. I receive emails all the time and many of them are from readers of this and my other blogs. I've noted before that people seem to prefer emailing me than either directly commenting or calling me. I prefer to be called or Skyped. This email, I'll admit, became an office curiosity. They were writing about something on our Principles page, specifically our First Principle: Do unto others as if they were you.
In other words, cut out the middle man. Treat others the way you treat yourself. People do this anyway. All we do is suggest you become aware of it. I'm including the text of their email as they wrote it, fonts, etc., and all. I'm removing their contact information (name, address, profession, title, phone number, cell number) because ... well ... because of our First Principle. And several that follow, as well. Feel free to comment or email me your thoughts. We really did find this email intriguing.
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Nov28 |
The title of this post is a quote from someone I don't know, never met, probably never will. The individual is very high up in a very large software company. It was given as an explanation of why the individual only types in lower case. I love statements like that. They make nice soundbytes and, as is the case with most soundbytes, are laughable without context. Shift keys slow you down? Then zippers must be a real test of patience... Sign up for the NextStage Irregular, our very irregular, definitely frequency-wise and probably topic-wise newsletter.
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Nov24 |
I wrote about my That Think You Do blogging efforts in Manly Men, Real Women and That Think You Do and thought to share that yes, I also blog on business and semantics (oh, the S word) issues at An Economy of Meaning, an outgrowth of The Center for Semantic Excellence, a thinktank I'm affiliated with based in Massachusetts and sometimes referred to as "The Waltham Group". You can find: Enjoy. Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on this and other topics. Sign up for the NextStage Irregular, our very irregular, definitely frequency-wise and probably topic-wise newsletter.
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Nov18 |
It's been a long time since I wrote a Nothing New Under the Sun post, a tribute to new ways of doing old things. This time out an ode to Wikipedia or perhaps to Citizendium, or probably to search engines in general. O' In the Before Time... Back when you judged your log on speed by the screech and clack pitch of your 300 baud modem, there were things like UseNets. I used these extensively when I worked at Lincoln Labs (start with Nothing New Under the Sun (Buying Computer Time, part 2)... and read on. I can't speak for all of them and the ones I routinely trawled were where true intellectual intensities could be found. Interestingly, I don't remember anything like flame-wars taking place. Those came onto the internet much later (or so it seems to me). Some of the usenets I remember include one on relativity and physics (it's morphed to the web as Usenet Physics FAQ) chemistry (couldn't find it at all), an MIT archive (now as sci FAQs By Newsgroup, creationism-evolution discussions (now as The TalkOrigins Archive, ... You'll notice that most of these have moved to the 'net. Hasn't everything? This post would be remiss if it didn't also honor those early web pioneers who created respectable information sites for no reason other than they wanted to. These in things like The Ebola Page (don't go looking, what you'd find now is...well...isn't The Ebola Page) and their ilk. Now-a-days, if there's not an ad it ain't getting published. Sigh. Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on this and other topics. Links for this post: Sign up for the NextStage Irregular, our very irregular, definitely frequency-wise and probably topic-wise newsletter.
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Nov13 |
Know More:
Readers will be shocked to learn I blog elsewhere. Today I'm going to suggest you take a view of my Personal Life Media blog, That Think You Do. You can find a complete list of my contributions -- both That Think You Do and elsewhere in the Personal Life Media system on the Joseph Carrabis link on most pages (I'm a category. Who'd a thunk it?). That Think You Do is where I'll be posting thoughts about how all the research NextStage does applies in real life. I mean, it's great that our clients learn the right colors to signal trust to middle aged Hispanic males but what colors should Hispanic males, females, WASPS, Asians, ... dress in when they go job hunting or want to signal a potential life or business partner that they're going to be a good provider or are trustworthy? Case in point, the first three posts to That Think You Do are: I think the titles give the subjects away. In any case, enjoy. Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on this and other topics. Sign up for the NextStage Irregular, our very irregular, definitely frequency-wise and probably topic-wise newsletter.
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Nov11 |
Know More:
Age Based Marketing, Consumer Psychology, Cultural Marketing, Experience, Gender Based Marketing, Happiness, Marketing, Marketing Design, MicroTargeting and Segmentation, Politics, Prediction Markets, Decision Markets, Information Markets, Psychology, Satisfaction, SoMe Election 08 tie-in, Sociology Consumer Psychology, MicroTargeting and Segmentation, Politics
I was going to respond to Tex's Finally, Voting comments and realized I was writing another blog post hence am responding here rather than there. To your first comment (and thanks for reading and commenting, O' Loyal One): I have no data to back this up and my take on it is that the current President Bush's disfavor has more to do with the American population coming out of their collective coma than anything else, at least according to one of NextStage's researchers, Calum MacKenzie, who has written extensively on political issues. Another aspect (and probably more accurate in the social sense) is that times and people change. It can be argued that (and you alluded to) Gore's loss was more his being punished for President Clinton's "crime". What was the crime?
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