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This does not compute: **“As the final five contestants on “American Idol” competed for a chance at the top prize on Tuesday, Fox once again took first place in the night’s ratings. According to Nielsen’s estimates, 22.5 million viewers tuned in to the reality show during the 8 p.m. hour, easily m...
Read more →If you live in the Boston area and somehow connected to technology professions you should be interested in this meeting being put on in June: What’s Next In Tech – Where will the next waves of growth will come from? > Date: Thursday, June 25th Time: 6:00 PM –...
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This weekend I had a chance to attend BarCamp Boston (4). As usual it was fun and interesting and I had a chance to hang out and talk with a bunch ...
I am struck by how broken our political process is. I’m not the first nor the last to make this observation, How did we get here and what are the underlying reasons? Here’s one way I have started to look at it: we have perfected the science of persuasion to such a point that it is **now destroying u...
Read more →Recently of course, because of the ‘torture memos’, the topic is all over the papers and cable ‘news’ programs. It’s brought back to mind a discussion that was raging hot and heavy, starting back in 2001, about the idea of allowing the issuance of ‘Torture Warrants‘. [Alan Dershowitz](http://en...
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Did you wonder how those snipers were able to shoot those pirates when both groups were on boats on the open sea? Check out this post Inside the Shot Heard ‘Round the World: > ""These guys can put three rounds onto the head of a quarter at that range," Allen told me. " (from: from Defense Tech)
Editors Note (that’s me, Pito): I’ve decided to change the name of this thing to “Decentralized Data Discovery – DDD” because I learned from more than one person that calling it Data RSS was misleading and confusing. I need to go back and update the papers and blog posts. I’ve just finished writ...
Read more →This is probably not high on your radar, but if you have interest in the island of Curaçao you may have heard about the big referendum issue that is being hotly debated these days. I won’t even try to capture the sides of the argument, rather I want to refer you to this outstanding paper written by ...
Read more →I’ve been an American Idol fan for a while now, in fact from the very start. I’ve been commenting to the TV Set that Paula is seeming much smarter, incisive and interesting this year than in the past.[I see I am not the only one to notice 🙂](http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2009/04/07/judging_p...
Read more →Check out this post If you think stronger regulation is a good answer, heed Buffett: > “Warren Buffett gave a three-hour interview in August. Here’s an interesting [bit from the transcript](http://www.clusterstock.com/2...
Read more →I recently saw the movie Hacking Democracy. It’s absolutely fascinating and basic background for anyone interested in election reform. In it you learn about some of the heroes of election reform, including Harri Hursti ...
Read more →Ethan Zuckerman writes a great piece about how Paul Simon’s Graceland album came to be, with some of the historical context, backstory and being a xenophile. A great read: > “At its best, Graceland sounds like Simon is encountering forces to large for him to understand or control. He’s riding on top...
Read more →This is from today’s New York Times Magazine. I didn’t know Virginia Heffernan was funny! > “Actually, the iPhone probably sips, like a lipsticky girl with a vodka drink. It usual...
Read more →Check out this post Meeting24.tv Keeps Online Meetings Simple: > "Like Utagoe Live 100, meeting24.tv also has a similar minimalistic feel to it, which is supposed to make it easy for anyone to use – even those with little web experience. The service is based on the assumption that other online meeting solutions such as TokBox (which we covered three times), Cisco’s Webex, Polycom or Skype are just too complex. " (from: from TechCrunch) I tried it, at least by myself. It seems to work but I am not sure that I am getting the most performance out of my Logitech webcam. Pretty cool.
Who cares about equities traders leaving Morgan Stanley. Not me, but check out this post Top Equities Trader Leaves Morgan Stanley: > "We’re convinced that no one would actually use the "sp...
Read more →Check out this post NBC’s Boston affiliate isn’t going to show Leno’s new show: > "WHDH, the NBC affiliate in Boston (I’m watching it right now) says that they’re not going to show Leno’s new 10PM show. Starting in September, the station is going to show local news at 10PM instead!" (from: from TV Squad) This is pretty interesting. I was wondering how the world could give up the 10:00pm time slot, each and every day on NBC. So ‘our’ station is choosing to opt out. Didn’t realize this was even possible!
I’ve gotten very interested in Election Reform lately, and I’ve delved into how the overall voting system works, technically but also politically and procedurally. There are so many simple and not so simple ways in which election results can be manipulated that it makes my head spin. I was at FooCa...
Read more →I spent 5 minutes perusing this site, and it looks really good. Wow, makes me want to be back in college. Now if only had time (and discipline?) to actually watch some of these lectures, that would be wonderful! Academic Earth – Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars 