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Buying a new grandmother?
Google era economy demand quick-satisfy downgrade change in our value system. User experience is adopting to free information and services where value of a good is mixed more than ever. We are simply not used to repair broken toys / gadgets any more but we simply buy a new one. Kids are watching and may someday ask:
Shell we buy a new grandma when she died?
The decade according to nine year olds
We are running out of resources. We need to recycle. Trees are dying. Michael Obama is first black president. Michael Jackson is biggest star. I am afraid of terrorists …
Bookshelf migration
After waiting and hoping that bookshelf service will eventually get better I decided to switch books to new service. Even there is some export / import option I spend few hours to settle it. New service, Goodreads.com, gives much more than the old one, Anobii and hope to get the best out of it.
Online Photo Sharing Howto in three minutes
Communication languages
The Verbal Processor. He wants to talk through all decisions and ideas. There’s a lot of talking that goes on during your exchange with a verbal processor but not form you; it needs to come from him. At the end of a conversation you might be exhausted, but the verbal processor is just getting warmed up.
Most popular daily goals are related to healthy, food & drink
Track your books with Anobii. Sexy and Simple.
aNobii is simple and useful book tracking system. I don’t think there is any imaginable feature they have left out.
After a quick registration you select your book shelf language. Add the books you own, either by title or ISBN. It is possible to import book list from other services, but you can also use an excel spreadsheet or a list from anywhere.
Out of the box
Sodobni svet kljub pretiranemu zamegljevanju, zapletanju in očitnim prevaram ni nerazumljiv, ni neprepoznaven, pač pa je – če zastavimo prava vprašanja – celo bolj zanimiv, kot si mislimo. Vse kar potrebujemo, je nov način gledanja nanj.
Obsedno stanje na urgenci
Skupina dvajsetih pacientov z običajno kartoteko in bolečinami v prsih je bila izročena skupini zdravnikom – kardilogom, internistom, zdravnikom na urgenci in stažistom, ki so imeli veliko izkušenj s presojo v takih primerih.
Vprašanje je bilo ali bodo bolniki ocenjeni podobno, vendar se niso strinjali v ničemer. Istega pacienta bi neki zdravnik poslal domov, drugi na intenzivno nego, enako je nihala verjetnost srčne kapi. Zdravniki so mislili, da presojajo razumsko, v resnici pa so bolj ali manj ugibali.
How China sees the world?
“So China is in a more precarious situation than many Westerners think. The world is not bipolar and may never become so. The EU, for all its faults, is the world’s biggest economy. India’s population will overtake China’s. But that does not obscure the fact that China’s relative power is plainly growing—and both the West and China itself need to adjust to this.”
Too many?
“Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, came up with the idea for Facebook one day in his dorm room. Perhaps he had snacked on too many magic mushrooms that day, or maybe he tired of watching the same Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reruns and decided to conjure up wild plans for new ways to foster his unsociability. Whatever. Who knows.”
Facebook is new television
I agree. Do you?
“Ker je nerazumnost bolj čustveno nabita in zahteva manj znanja, ljudem več pove in jo je lažje požreti. Teorije zarote so kot mamilo, ki gre naravnost v kri in vas “razvestli”. Zdaj se priključite na internet. Ne vbrizgate si, pač pa naložite. Naložite si točno tisto, kar ustreza vsem vašim pristranskim stališčem.” (Yaron Ezrahi).
Facebook je odličen pripomoček.
History of Marketing
“It explains the history of marketing – from the relatively simple olden days which saw few brands and simple USPs to the current situation of sensory and mental overload where the consumer is incessantly bombarded with advertising. This resulted in the radical shift from advertising acceptance to outright rejection.”
“Marketing people, kill yourselves”, Bill Hicks
Current journalism definition
I have stopped saying “the media” or “media industry” when talking about journalism and news. Instead I say “the news industry” or “the journalism industry.”
Are they really your friends?
Back in October there was an article in the New York Times called “Facebook in a Crowd” by Hal Niedzviecki. In the article he describes how he reached out to his almost 700 friends to invite them to a Facebook party. After tabulating the responses Hal had 15 people who said they were attending, 60 that said maybe, a few hundred that said no and no responses from the rest. On the evening of the Facebook party one person (a friend of a friend) showed up to meet him.
