Daily Archives: November 14, 2005

VideoBlog Directory

I signed up to VLOGDIR The Videoblog Directory I guess my blog only has videos occasionally, but I’m working on changing that. Still and all, it’s pretty cool. I’ll probably find a few new feeds to subscribe to on FireANT. Hurrah!
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Distributed Thinking

For Thinking About Networks this week Clay had us read “Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecky. This article contains the following gem: “James Shanteau is one of the country’s leading thinkers on the nature of expertise, and has spent a great deal of time coming up with a method for estimating just how expert someone is. [...]
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Graduate Assistants on Strike

GAs at NYU went on strike on Wednesday November 9th. We covered the strike for Earshot. Listen to Earshot
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Wireless Persuasion

So I read some more of the ol’ Persuasive Technology by BJ Fogg - this time chapter 8, which is all about mobile and connected devices. Fogg contends that people marry their mobile technologies. Given Clay’s nugget that the last two things people took to carrying around with them everywhere were money and keys, the [...]
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Season 3 Week 1

These were my two show ideas. I think they’re pretty funny and retarded enough to be popular. My teammates only chose the one with The Rock. We’ll see how that does in the ratings. Play Your Ex Paris Hilton hosts the gameshow where ex couples come face to face and answer questions about their past together [...]
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