March 2011
39 posts
“Just 28% of the Portuguese population between 25 and 64 has completed high...”
– Weak Educational System Hobbles Portugal - WSJ.com
Wow that’s awful.
“The point remains, however, that for a CMO to be singularly obsessed over FB...”
– DIGIDAY:DAILY - HypeBusters: Facebook Fans Are Worthless
“Turning to last year’s Dodd-Frank law, Mr. Barofsky warned the...”
– TARP Watchdog Spars Over ‘Too Big to Fail’ - MarketWatch
Too Big Too Fail = Social Losses, Private Profits = The Few over the Many
“If we can’t put solar power plants in the Mojave Desert, I don’t...”
– Energy Ideas Democrats and Republicans Agree On - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Technology - The Atlantic
He’s right.
“We also have to establish a mechanism for measuring and reporting outcomes. The...”
– Peter Pronovost and the Checklist - WSJ.com
You improve what you measure.
My family is very fortunate to live in Seattle where the UW hospitals are hawks on using the checklist and working to improve infection rates.
As much as I sometimes think it would be cool to live in an exotic locale access...
“Lots of people are trying to create location-based services and using GPS,” said...”
– Color CEO: The Tech Justifies the $41 Million
Rafer sez: Because a number of the buzzwords and market problems that Omniar addresses are similar, I received a few emails yesterday asking about Color. Oddly, they were all from founders and not VCs.
Let me paint a different and pretty damn...
“For most people, QR codes are confusing, laborious, and there’s no payoff. Do...”
– DIGIDAY:DAILY - HypeBusters: QR Codes Are Hopeless
I love the money quote at the end - finally something to make banner CTR’s look good! :)
“The new-home sales numbers for February came out today, and they are horrible. ...”
– R.I.P., New-Home Sales - NYTimes.com
Sawickipedia says: A much more liberal immigration policy is one way to help create more demand for housing in this country.
“I wouldn’t want us to return to the age of the corset or even of the...”
– Why Do We Let Girls Dress Like That? - WSJ.com
quick question
vruz:
why did Marlon Brando in the Superman film (1978) have Superman’s “S” on his chest?
I always thought it stood for Smallville, or Superman, or something with an S…
why not a “K”, or even a “J” ?
that mystery still escapes me even today.
And there we have our non-sequitor for the evening folks! ;)
“As the late great UW economist Charlie Tiebout told a seminar 50 years ago,...”
– Growth in the past decade: winners and losers | Crosscut.com
“The government safety net provides the motivation to take greater risks than...”
– TARP Watchdog: Big Banks Got Unfair Advantage - WSJ.com
Sawickipedia: To those wondering what corporatism is - this pretty much says it. Big Corporations rigging the political and regulatory system to their advantage over smaller competitors.
tedr:
Sleater-Keeney - The Day I Went Away
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“As New York Times executive editor Bill Keller pungently observed: “Buying an...”
– Veteran Journos Out as AOL-Huffington Cuts 900 Jobs | Epicenter | Wired.com
“Today, some Washington voices are calling for U.S. force to be applied, somehow,...”
– George F. Will - On Libya, too many questions
Sawickipedia says: I think you can call me a George Will republican for today. Agree on everything. Yes the world is messy, but assuming we are the ones to fix it/clean it is egotist’s or likely more so a fool’s errand.
“An issue that kept coming up was the gap between the amount of time users spend...”
– Mixed Picture at IAB
Sawickipedia says: The efficiency of TV advertising spend is VASTLY under appreciated in the online advertising world. Online no matter how much time is spent on it by users vs TV is likely to look more like Radio and Print and not like TV in terms of spend because the...
“The supposed cardiovascular benefits of a low level of alcohol intake in some...”
– There is no such thing as a safe level of alcohol consumption | Professor David Nutt | Science | guardian.co.uk
“I feel like I hear a lot of paeans to the good people of rural America. I feel...”
– Ezra Klein - Vilsack: ‘I took it as a slam on rural America’
“Climate science should focus on doing a much better job on the historical and...”
– Neverending Reflections on Climategate | Climate Etc.
Crap email from the Secretary of Defense →
mikehudack:
peterfeld:
Esquire publishes some passive-aggressive notes from Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld to National Security Advisor (later Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice:
December 13, 200l TO: Honorable Condoleezza Rice FROM: Donald Rumsfeld SUBJECT: PC Meeting
We just had the Principals Committee meeting on Iran and Russia. At the last minute, we were told not to bring the...
“We went out there and talked to him for about an hour and he was obviously on...”
– Nation & World | Calif. woman survives 35-mile ride on minivan hood | Seattle Times Newspaper
“KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the...”
– Nine Afghan Boys Killed by NATO Helicopters - NYTimes.com
Opposite of winning hearts and minds. We fail … for generations …
(via tedr)
so sad. we suck.
“When prosecutors put together their case at trial (at least in the US) they have...”
– Duty to Disclose | Climate Skeptic (via sawickipedia)
Rafer sez: For all your bitching about corporatism, I find it astounding that you fall for this 100% corporatist climate change skepticism hogwash. The climate is changing. We are causing it. To interpret the data any other way is the scientific...
“When prosecutors put together their case at trial (at least in the US) they have...”
– Duty to Disclose | Climate Skeptic (via sawickipedia)
Rafer sez: For all your bitching about corporatism, I find it astounding that you fall for this 100% corporatist climate change skepticism hogwash. The climate is changing. We are causing it. To interpret the data any other way is the scientific...
Mindful Meats: Monsanto's Government Infiltration →
mindfulmeats:
List of former-Monsanto players now in government roles:
Tom Vilsack, the pro-biotech former governor of Iowa, now head of the USDA
Michael Taylor, the former Monsanto Vice President, now the FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods
Roger Beachy, the former director of the Monsanto-funded…
Ah corporatism at its finest. Bleech.