Archive for april, 2007

Human beat box

fredag, april 20th, 2007

Click this link

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Astro-surfing and the music business

torsdag, april 19th, 2007

Innohead pointed me to this site / post a few days back. The post is about the future of the music business: Using the case of a very popular youtube video, The author deliberates that

Person to person marketing. No machine other than the web and google at work here. The rest is us, enjoying a […]

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books.google.com

torsdag, april 19th, 2007

Certain things are just so darn nice. E.g. Geert Hofstede’s classic Culture & Orginazations; free and complete via google.books.com
And please - while we are talking about books - read som that are banned

(oh - btw; the inside google book search blog, might be worth a read as well. Haven’t I clicked it through it wouldn’t […]

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Papa’s got a brand new bag

onsdag, april 18th, 2007

Papa’s got a brand new bag
Originally uploaded by lovepade.
Got my e61i the other day - and i’m luuuving it - da.da - da..da.-daaaaa
Only drawbacks (so far):

Still no FM radio in e-series… Strange, and stupid.
While microfone is excellent, the internal speaker does not impress me.
Camera is great - but I really need a macro function. (I […]

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Åbent brev til folketingets IT ordførere [klade] [post in danish]

mandag, april 16th, 2007

nedenstående er skrevet i en sen time, foran en tidlig morgen. Kommentare vil værdsættes.
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Jeg skriver til dig i din egenskab af ordfører på IT området. Baggrunden for min henvendelse er § 8, stk. 2, i lov om domænenavne, som særligt tildeles Danmark (domæneloven). Loven indebærer at personoplysninger (navn, adresse samt telefonnummer) for registranten af et […]

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Vonnegut tribute

mandag, april 16th, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut died. Personally I’ve only read cat’s craddle and some novellas /short stories. But enough to appreciate this tribute over at indexed
 

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Time is money? and 11 past seven is 500.000 US$

onsdag, april 11th, 2007

More old news (?) - reported by New York Times on October 11th 2006: Chigago White Sox have decided to start their games 11 minutes past seven. This will cash in 0,5 mio. USD per year from (suprise) 7:11 convenience store in sponsor ship.

Actually I think its cheap - and i wonder whether night radio […]

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Time to finally get a fonera?

tirsdag, april 10th, 2007

Link to fon: http://www.fon.com/en/

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Dan Gilbert talks about happiness

mandag, april 9th, 2007

Interesting talk (a wee bit old) about happiness: Basically it’s the old song about how money and getting what you want wont make you happier. As such it’s really not that exiting. But Gilbert is an apt speaker, and the examples are noteworthy, e.g. that we tend to choose settings which maximise our freedom to […]

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Myths on the developing world; Gapminder - presentation video

tirsdag, april 3rd, 2007

SSSB finnaly reports on gapminder, previously mentioned on intonaco (this blog :-)). SSSB also links to this presentation by hans rosling, founder of gapminder Hans Rosling is a cool guy…
(Jeff Han har også en interesant video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ)

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Change in power (government) - a result of “person-fatigue” vs. “ideology-shifts” vs. “performance-evaluation”

søndag, april 1st, 2007

I haven’t seen (but it might have been made) a longitunal study that has as explanandum change in ruling coalition, or other forms of government, and simulatiously controlling for the three explanans above. Independant and control variables, and the data to represent them, might be:

Ideology shifts: WVS - Engelhart (Problem: Data for most countrys avg. […]

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