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Book of Lies
This week we read from Book of Lies.
Grant Morrison:: “Pop Magic!” All about how to do magic.
Best quote: “If I’d stuck with the clarinet and got nowhere would that mean there is no such thing as music?”
Mark Pesce:: “The Executable Dreamtime” All about how language obscures reality.
Best quote: “What I tell you three times is [...]
Neuromarketing
Brain has a Buy Button
Science of Shopping
Politics and Neuromarketing
Rushkoff on Neuromarketing
Mind Control: Technologies, Techniques and Politics - there are some really interesting and weird articles linked off this site.
Sound and Vision
NeuroPop White Paper - this is the White Paper of a company that claims to be able to affect your brain with their sound design. Sciency.
Sonic Weapons - an interesting Fortean Times article about the myths related to the use of sound as a weapon.
Neural Noise Synthesiser - another company that claims to be able [...]
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 [...]
Viral Media
I read the start of Media Virus by Rushkoff. It’s very excited about the possibilities of media viruses.
To me it’s a little troubling because a culture based on viruses spreading information is likely to be sensationalistic. I can’t see a lot to be optimistic about in a world where being the next big thing to [...]
Waiting to Be Asked
The Observer | Magazine | Dear Marie
This is an example of the kind of thing I was talking about in my paper for Technologies of Persuasion.
Drowning in Media
Power of Nightmares
A year after downloading this 3-part documentary I finally got around to watching it. It’s worth a look.
It’s an interesting look at the similarities and common interests of the neo-cons and the islamists.
Ubiquity of Advertising
Aliens are taking over our culture.
I wrote a paper for Technologies of Persuasion inspired by Technopoly by Neil Postman, [...]
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Pure NLP
Steve Robbins’s arcticle defining NLP
Thom Hartmann NLP Course Week 1
Thom Hartmann NLP Course Week 2
Thom Hartmann NLP Course Week 3
NLP is pretty interesting. A lot of the language stuff turns out to be habits I already have, and now I’m reading theories of them. Weird.
The Computer People
BJ Fogg’s Persuasive Technology sets out seven types of persuasive technology tools, or more accurately seven ways that technology tools work: reduction, tunnelling, tailoring, suggestion, self-monitoring, surveillance, and conditioning.
I’ve only read chapters 3 & 5 so far and I’ve found it useful in terms of providing a structure around which to think about ways that [...]
The Knob Industry
Today we had Marquis McNeil from msinteractive come in and demo his Perception Analyzer in Technologies of Persuasion.
Rushkoff had the idea of going all meta and using the dials to register our feelings about Frank Luntz’s uses of the same technology in The Persuaders.
It was really interesting to see the effect the dials have [...]
