Dork Matter.

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Repeat After Me: "I am not a dork..."

Repeat After Me: "I am not a dork..." 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

Internet 'Geek' Image Shattered by New Study: I just knew I wasn't a dork. Awesome.

...the typical Internet user is an avid reader of books and spends more time engaged in social activities than the non-user, it says. And, television viewing is down among some Internet users by as much as five hours per week compared with Net abstainers, the study added.

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"tech dork mills like Caltech and MIT"

"tech dork mills like Caltech and MIT" 06/22/2005 02:23 AM

This is a must read:  "We're looking for a few boring dorks; the engineer shortage made simple."

[Forwarded to me by an MIT faculty member who probably wishes to remain anonymous.  Posted from the delightful FBO in hip lakeside Madison, Wisconsin (UW is not a "tech dork mill"), about to leave for Winnipeg.]

Dark matter doesn't matter, say
scientists

Dark matter doesn't matter, say
scientists 03/22/2005 05:08 PM
'Einstein was right when he said he was wrong'

No matter where you go... there you are.

No matter where you go... there you are. 10/30/2003 12:34 PM
No matter where you go... there you are. It is indeed Trysteroic that the self-suing Fox Television, of all media conglomerates (and seemingly, one of the many scions of YoYoDyne?), should have had the brilliant idea to turn "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai" into a TV series. Perhaps the selected few at the Banzai Institute will find a way to get Dr. Banzai to defeat the evil John Joe Millioniare.

RFI: Does DVI matter?

RFI: Does DVI matter? 09/18/2004 08:34 PM
I just sold my 22" CRT and have replaced it with a 17" Advueu 723A from NewEgg. (NewEgg has become one of my very favorite online stores. Fast, honest, reliable, cheap...and customer reviews.) I want to add a second LCD. The Advueue is so bright that I'm getting glasses-shaped tan lines on my face.I'm wondering whether it's worth an extra $80 to get an LCD with a DVI interface. Will that actually set fire to my hair? (I'm looking at the Samsung 710T.) I don't do a lot of image work, but I do play 3D games. Does the DVI...

``It's a matter of will.``

``It's a matter of will.`` 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Here's a commute for you: Shanghai to San Francisco, every two weeks, in pursuit of an executive MBA.

No matter where you go, you are here

No matter where you go, you are here 04/12/2004 11:37 AM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 12 2004 3:22PM GMT

Does IT Matter?

Does IT Matter? 11/19/2003 08:11 PM
geoff313 asks: "I'm sure many of you are aware of the uproar over Nicholas Carr's article 'IT Doesn't Matter' which was published in the Harvard Business ...

IT Doesn't Just Matter, It's Critical

IT Doesn't Just Matter, It's Critical 05/07/2004 04:14 PM
Following on the post we had yesterday about why Nicholas Carr is barking up the wrong tree with his thesis that IT doesn't matter, here's an article from Don Tapscott in CIO magazine taking apart Carr's ideas in detail. It's really an update to a previous talk Tapscott gave criticizing Carr's ideas, but it's well worth the read. He makes the argument that companies that buy into Carr's beliefs are effectively going to commit suicide, and supports my belief in "fleeting competitive advantages" rather than sustainable ones by saying: "The speed of the competition is accelerating and competitors are trying to catch up. This is the new normal. Companies need to be more agile. Get used to it!"

"second post on this matter"

"second post on this matter" 01/04/2004 03:53 AM

"Does it matter if he's thick?"

"Does it matter if he's thick?" 08/27/2004 09:00 PM

Books That Matter

Books That Matter 01/07/2004 01:57 PM
It's the Fast Company Book Club: Join today to see this month's selection, help choose upcoming selections, and discuss the books with some of the smartest thinkers in business today.

things that matter

things that matter 01/16/2004 11:31 AM
Today would have been the 75th birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. To honor his memory, his legacy, and his dream, I offer the following wisdom from Dr. King himself:

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Remember the Dream.

a matter of priorities

a matter of priorities 01/16/2004 11:31 AM
Okay. Political stories and rants are officially back "on the table," and the question sweeping the nation is: Does Mr. Bush care more about protecting Americans from terrorism and ensuring our safety, or protecting himself from criticism, and ensuring his reelection?

Hacking matter

Hacking matter 06/24/2004 06:41 AM
I've been reading Wil McCarthy's book Hacking Matter, which is a popularized version of the serious study of quantum dots and the ability to build pseudomatter using artificial atoms. How can one not like a book, which contains wonderful sentences such as this one:

Now we can create not only a thin film of goldlike pseudomatter, but a three-dimensional solid with pseudogold dopant atoms on the inside as well. Thus, we can generate a bulk material with the mass of wickered silicon, but the physical, chemical, and electrical properties of an otherwise-impossible gold/silicon alloy.

I mean - even the minuscule thought of it is breathtaking! The wonders of the universe! How could one not love this world, when so many incredible things are about? This could, and would change the face of the world as we know it. You just flick a switch, and you can make a part of the wall transparent - or a light source - or a TV screen - or gold. Whatever pleases you.

As an aside, I also found another very interesting paragraph (among thousands, but this one has an ominous look):

At his insistence, we filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and within a few weeks we'd been contacted by the U.S. Air Force about the possibility of maybe licensing it.

Note that even in the US, patents are generally considered secret and proprietary, until a year of the filing date has passed. This is so that the application can be amended, fixed, and just being kept secret from the competitors, who might find a way to redesign around the actual implementation (ideas are not patentable as such). Obviously, the military is ignoring all that and have their own informants within the US patent process... Somehow, that does not surprise me at all.

A matter of survival

A matter of survival 07/13/2004 08:27 AM
The author of "Imperial Hubris" says the moral cowardice and political correctness of senior intelligence officials have severely hurt the war on terrorism.

Does Kazaa matter?

Does Kazaa matter? 06/30/2004 02:49 PM
The top file-swapping network is facing lawsuits, junk downloads and strong rivals. Some say it's past its prime.

Size Doesn't Matter

Size Doesn't Matter 04/14/2004 02:34 PM
Honestly! It's the number of years spent building your nest egg that's most important.

Mind over matter

Mind over matter 06/17/2004 06:34 AM
Chicago Tribune Jun 17 2004 10:58AM GMT

A Matter Of Perspective

A Matter Of Perspective 06/01/2004 09:55 PM
Sometimes a perspective shift will only throw the quality of Apple's products into sharper relief; other times it will reveal where Apple has fallen down. Either way, it can be a useful experience. By Jason Snell, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

"A Matter of Faith "

"A Matter of Faith " 06/23/2004 01:55 PM

Does RAM Latency Matter?

Does RAM Latency Matter? 08/19/2004 02:35 PM
Deep Tech: Memory manufacturers continue to sell faster and faster RAM, often touting lower latency as a major selling point. Does this more expensive RAM actually improve system performance?

Conferences Do Matter

Conferences Do Matter 12/11/2002 08:09 AM
In responding to Dave, I see that Scott's down on conferences. I have to disagree. It's not just about innovation. Some conferences matter a lot--at least to me. Here's why. Exposure In the last couple of years, I've made the...

It was just a matter of time...

It was just a matter of time... 12/11/2003 03:51 AM
26 year old student finds largest known prime number. The number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out. It is more than 2 million digits larger than the previous largest known prime number. Why? What use is it? How can knowing the next highest prime number be of any benefit?

One word: Cryptogra phy.
Prime numbers are essential in producing keys for cryptography.

Turns Out Looks Do Matter

Turns Out Looks Do Matter 12/29/2003 11:49 PM

People Found to be Overwhelmingly Superficial: Here's a summation of a new Web site credibility report. A little depressing.

The data showed that the average consumer paid far more attention to the superficial aspects of a site, such as visual cues, than to its content. For example, nearly half of all consumers (or 46.1%) in the study assessed the credibility of sites based in part on the appeal of the overall visual design of a site, including layout, typography, font size and color schemes.

Those guys from Average Joe are screwed.

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Size Does Matter

Size Does Matter 12/19/2003 01:10 PM
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What's The Matter With Kansas?

What's The Matter With Kansas? 04/12/2005 01:44 PM
An open letter to the Citizens of Atwood. This past week, the residents of the small town of Atwood, Kansas voted 984 to 113 to deny gay couples any rights for their relationships (including hospital visitation). Now, the man who set up the town's newspaper website has not only left Atwood, but taken down the website and posted a (mostly) measured response to the town in place of it. Will putting a human face on those being discriminated against ever change the minds of some people, or is one passage in the bible enough for some people to keep justifying their bigoted ways?

A Matter of Taste

A Matter of Taste 01/22/2004 03:19 AM
This week's question: Does the same food taste the same to everyone?

When Price Doesn't Matter

When Price Doesn't Matter 03/23/2005 10:10 AM
A Fool gets down with some real simple stock talk.

Why IT doesn't matter anymore

Why IT doesn't matter anymore 08/10/2004 03:53 PM

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This article has some weird formatting due to an ad insertion - just scroll down the page to read it. “…Twenty years ago, most executives looked down on computers as proletarian tools — glorified typewriters and calculators — best relegated to low level employees like secretaries, analysts and technicians. It was the rare executive who would let his fingers touch a keyboard, much less incorporate information technology into his strategic thinking. Today, that has changed…

Other News: Why Games Matter

Other News: Why Games Matter 08/12/2004 11:27 AM
Ian McKenzie explains how Microsoft works to monopolize gaming because of the effects on the broader computing market.

Does Nick Carr matter?

Does Nick Carr matter? 08/21/2004 08:53 AM
Strategy+business concludes that a controversial new book on the strategic value of information technology is flawed--but correct.

How Much Does Information Technology
Matter?

How Much Does Information Technology
Matter? 05/06/2004 05:24 PM
In 2003, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled "IT Doesn't Matter." The debate still rages.

Commoditization And Innovation - IT Does
Matter

Commoditization And Innovation - IT Does
Matter 05/06/2004 03:49 PM
Last year there was a long and loud discussion all around the tech industry concerning Nichola s Carr and his assertion that IT doesn't matter any more, since it's become a commodity. Now, knowing that controversy sells books, he's gone on to write a full length book, < i>Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage. Professor Hal Varian, in the NY Times has responded brilliantly to the arguments Carr makes. Carr's assertion (often misunderstood) is that IT is becoming a commodity, and as such, offers no sustainable competitive advantage to companies. Basically, the argument is that everyone can easily have the same IT setup, so it should be looked on in the same way as electricity: a necessary component, but one that gives no particular advantage. Varian makes the point that we've discussed here in the past: commoditization, by itself, does not mean the end of innovation or the end of business opportunities. In fact, it can be the exact opposite. Commoditized products are inputs into innovation. The fact that they are commoditized actually means it's easier and cheaper to use them innovatively to gain a competitive advantage. In other words, it's about taking advantage of the fact that they are commoditized and realizing that they're now resources and not end products themselves. The same argument, by the way, could be used in the entertainment industry - but that's a story for another post. Still, I think the real stumbling block with Carr is his insistence on "sustainable competitive advantage." Let's face it, sustainable competitive advantage is a myth. There is nothing any company can do that can't be copied eventually (or leapfrogged). Competitive advantage is always fleeting. What a good company recognizes, however, is that the way you build the idea of a sustainable competitive advantage is by constantly innovating, so that your fleeting competitive advantages add up to a sustainable one. One way to do that is to recognize commodities for what they are: opportunities for new innovation, and not something to be pushed aside as useless.

Missing Matter Found

Missing Matter Found 02/05/2005 10:16 PM

From a Story in Wired
 For years, astrophysicists have been boggled by the fact that the grand sum of all the known "normal" matter in the universe -- that which makes up the stars, the Earth and even our own bodies -- only amounts to half of what should exist based on computer simulations.

Given that multiple simulations have continually yielded the same result, they theorized that the rest of the normal matter, known as baryons, must be hiding somewhere in the space between galaxies. However, they haven't had much evidence to support the theory until now. 

A new study conducted with the help of the Earth-orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the existence of baryons in at least two giant, intergalactic clouds of super-hot gas 150 million and 380 million light-years from our planet.

The study, which appears in the Feb. 3 issue of the journal Nature, shows how certain wavelengths of X-rays emitted from a distant galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major are being absorbed by the two clouds. The absorption pattern, as detected by Chandra, is consistent with interference caused by carbon, neon, nitrogen and oxygen ions -- in other words, baryons.

Do Brands Matter Any More Online?

Do Brands Matter Any More Online? 08/11/2004 05:30 PM
Remember how the internet was supposed to take out the middleman, get rid of all brands, and just let everyone buy stuff based on the lowest price around? Then reality set in and people and their actual buying habits showed that people don't just factor in price (though, it's clearly important) but other elements as well. However, now that we've got signs of 1999 again, it appears people are back to predictin g a death of brand, even as various online scams have become even more common, and brands you can trust would seem to be more important than ever.

In Search of Business Value: IT Really
Does Matter

In Search of Business Value: IT Really
Does Matter 12/29/2004 11:54 AM
Q&A: In a new book, Microsoft VP Robert McDowell takes on the "does IT matter?" debate, contending that IT delivers real value when it serves as a catalyst for rethinking business processes.

In May 2003, business writer Nicholas Carr sparked a heated debate when the Harvard Business Review published his article "IT Doesn't Matter." The premise of his article and a subsequent book "Does IT Matter?" is that business technology has become a commodity that offers little or no competitive advantage.

Why the 2TB µcard Size Doesn't
Matter

Why the 2TB µcard Size Doesn't
Matter 08/09/2004 11:08 AM

So the Taiwanese Industrial Technology Research Institute is rolling out a new type of flash memory card called "µcard" ("microcard," one would assume), to be unveiled formally at the Taipei International Electronics Show in October. And while everyone is getting their panties in a bunch about the 2-terabyte capacity, it should be noted that other existing flash memory formats, specifically Sony's Memory Stick Pro and Memory Stick Duo already support cards in sizes up to 2-terabyte. It all has to do with the addressing and just because someone can support that doesn't mean they will.

What is interesting about the new format, though, is its bandwidth. With a projected speed of 120MB per second (compared to Memory Stick Pro's 20MB per second, for instance) the new card format may not be any bigger than other standards, but it should be able to be written to a lot faster. Only time will tell if anybody will start incorporating the new µcard format into their gadgetry, however.

Read - Taiwan to produce a new type of memory storage device [DigiTimes]

What's Next for Microsoft in EU
Antitrust Matter?

What's Next for Microsoft in EU
Antitrust Matter? 12/24/2004 12:26 PM
After being rebuffed in its request for remedy relief, what's Microsoft likely to do next? It might appeal. But in the interim, it's rolling out what BetaNews says it will call Windows XP Reduced Media Edition (RME).
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Dark Matter Flowchart (It's A Flowchart
Joke)

Dark Matter Flowchart (It's A Flowchart
Joke) 11/02/2003 03:12 AM
HEY! LOOK OVER HERE!

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Flowchart for CD ripping morality

Flowchart for CD ripping morality 09/08/2004 07:14 AM
Cory Doctorow: Here's a thought-provoking flowchart suggesting a moral process for deciding whether you should rip any given CD. Link (via Waxy)

London Tube Map as flowchart

London Tube Map as flowchart 12/22/2003 12:36 PM
Nice HOWTO for using graphics in the style of the London tube-map to flowchart complex processes. Includes downloadable PowerPoint templates. Link (via Kottke)

LGA 775: A Joke And A Threat That Is No
Joke.

LGA 775: A Joke And A Threat That Is No
Joke. 06/21/2004 10:18 PM
Overclockers.com: LGA 775: A Joke And A Threat That Is No Joke. "This is a threat, the biggest threat we've ever faced. If you wait until it becomes reality, it's too late to do anything about it." Awwww.

"Waxy.org"

"Waxy.org" 12/30/2004 05:02 PM

Waxy for President!

Waxy for President! 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
Okay, not President, but Editor in Chief. Wired News (the online arm, not the print magazine) is looking to hire a new EiC. I think they should hire Andy Baio. He's already been dictating large swaths of their editorial judgement by his consistently excellent research skills, his innate grasp of...

congrats on Waxy 2.0!

congrats on Waxy 2.0! 01/22/2004 06:19 PM
all of this child's toenail clippings will be archived permanently on the web in plain text format

When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio

When Things On Your Mac Do Cool Things
You Didn't Expect Them To... Or
Adventures In Mac-Based Audio 01/03/2004 12:11 AM
If you play an instrument, write songs, sing, or wish you could do any or all of the above, take a look at DigiDesign's amazing little Mbox, a complete audio production system with many uses. By Bob LeVitus (Mac Observer via MyAppleMenu)

Tracking Waxy.org and thinking about
UpComing.org

Tracking Waxy.org and thinking about
UpComing.org 09/25/2004 03:24 AM

Whenever I start my rap on micro-content - I use the example of UpComing.org and it's poor events that are being slammed into one RSS 2.0 text description.

I often recall that it was at that moment when I realized that maintaining structure in micro-content was perhaps my next life's calling.

So I scan Waxy.og with especial affinity and warm fuzzies - as Andy Baio is my kind of guy.

So when he pointed to thi s Sims image - it brought together lots of warm fuzzies for me - not only because my good friend Don Hopkins worked on the Sims and I used to play SimCity with abandon - back when I had time to play.

But also because it represents us - watching ourselves - through virtual lens of IRC channels, trackback and Technorati rankings. We've achieved perfect balance and self monitoring.

Certain other blogosphere leaders also used to play SimCity - too - so I post this image dedicated to the spirit of virtual characters playing themselves - much like our burgeoning new forms of micro-content are taking on a life of their own.

This is a train that is leaving the station.

Her e's the image [via Waxy.org links via]:

It's a Sim, playing The Sims, in The Sims 2.

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Metafilter Sources

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Metafilter Sources 08/08/2004 03:24 AM
waxy.org- Metafilter top links

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Waxy.org: Daily Log: Anchorman's
Friendster Marketing

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Anchorman's
Friendster Marketing 07/13/2004 07:06 PM
Movie characters put into Friendster as a new kind of media promotion (c/o Danah Boyd) .. Waxy points out .. noted early on .. Andy reports

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"Waxy.org: Daily Log: Researching the
2004 Oscar Screeners"

"Waxy.org: Daily Log: Researching the
2004 Oscar Screeners" 01/16/2004 10:58 AM

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Amateur Tsunami
Video Footage

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Amateur Tsunami
Video Footage 12/29/2004 03:35 AM
Waxy.org: Daily Log: Amateur Tsunami Video Footage

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Waxy.org: Daily Log: Amazon.com
Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Amazon.com
Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game 07/07/2004 04:42 AM
Whistle-blower: I fudged Cold River's Amazon figures for years .. The Amazon.com knee-jerk contrarian game .. game you can play

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Waxy.org: Daily Log: Wordpress Website's
Search Engine Spam

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Wordpress Website's
Search Engine Spam 03/31/2005 03:43 AM
Nebenjob als so genannter Suchmaschinenoptimierer, wie Andrew Baio entdeckt hat und in seinem Weblog ausführt .. Waxy.org: Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam .. Web 2.0 won't all be good (web drama!) .. Wordpress is using its hi .. now we know .. investigates

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Dumpy, Waxy, Poisonous and Jumpy, Frogs
Invade a Museum

Dumpy, Waxy, Poisonous and Jumpy, Frogs
Invade a Museum 05/28/2004 12:20 AM
Frogs are one of the world's great treasures, as an exhibition opening tomorrow at the American Museum of Natural History makes clear.

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Waxy's Bandwidth
Blowout #1: Heat Vision and Jack

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Waxy's Bandwidth
Blowout #1: Heat Vision and Jack 06/26/2004 05:50 PM
Video: Heat Vision and Jack .. Bandwidth Blowout

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""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..."

""I’m not the kind of artist who feels
that I have a mission of any kind
whatsoever. The 19th century was about
that. What right do I have? In many ways
it robs people of a lot of things. I’m
an average enough person to point to the
things that I’ve..." 07/13/2004 03:21 AM

Good things, bad things

Good things, bad things 03/06/2004 02:03 AM
Good thing: to have surge protection on your computer array.
Bad thing: kick accidentally the surge protection thingy so that the wall socket becomes loose, and have a big, catastrophic power failure.

Good thing: to be able to read your blogs while eating breakfast
Bad thing: to drop a bun in your cereal, and have milk splashed all across your laptop

Good thing: iTunes for Windows
Bad thing: Windows

Good thing: actually having sunlight in the mornings.
Bad thing: the mornings.

Good thing: upcoming go -tournament (http://takapotku.suomigo.net - feel free to come by and say hi!) next weekend.
Bad thing: not sleeping enough before the weekend.

43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things

43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things 04/17/2005 10:05 PM
43 Things Web Service API on 43 Things .. 43things adds web services API

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The PowerPoint Mythology

The PowerPoint Mythology 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
I spent yesterday consulting with a company whose salesforce is having trouble explaining exactly what its software does, a common problem with enterprise applications since software tends towards functionality sprawl in ways that, say, refrigerators and asphalt don't. Not to mention that this company's software is genuinely innovative. The company's impulse is to address this need in the usual way: Build a PowerPoint "deck" (sorry, "deck" instead of "slide set" still sounds unnatural to me) with the sort of corporate overview appropriate for an industry analyst. But, the deck a salesperson needs is, of course, quite different. The rep isn't...

Accelerated PowerPoint?

Accelerated PowerPoint? 08/15/2004 01:18 PM

Powerpoint makes you ...

Powerpoint makes you ... 12/17/2003 05:58 PM
Tools are emerging that claim to make application development as easy as writing a Powerpoint presentation. ...

Powerpoint Foghat

Powerpoint Foghat 08/28/2004 02:49 PM
The Essential Foghat Timeline. Is it any wonder that Foghat is so hard to keep track of? (Found here). There were two versions of Foghat touring from 1990 to 1993. Roger Earl was touring with his version of Foghat (originally called the Kneetremblers) from 1986 to 1993 and Dave toured with Lonesome Dave's Foghat from 1990 to 1993...

Not my beautiful PowerPoint

Not my beautiful PowerPoint 12/29/2003 09:16 PM
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Coffee on PowerPoint

Coffee on PowerPoint 12/15/2003 08:12 AM
Peter Coffee in eWeek meditates on what PowerPoint is doing to us. He begins with Edward Tufte's piece on how PowerPoint misled the assessment of the risk to the shuttle Columbia. Peter writes: Bad presentations result from people learning to write with a model of "topic sentence, body, conclusion," instead of a journalistic model of "lead (conclusion), significance, supporting details." Peter says that although media "don't just transmit facts; they alter both selection and emphasis, creating different realities in the process," PowerPoint isn't solely to blame for the bad presentations done with it. In fact, he says, PowerPoint helps you...

Perestroika by PowerPoint

Perestroika by PowerPoint 12/11/2003 06:15 AM
Go easy with the tax breaks

FC Now: Near Death by PowerPoint

FC Now: Near Death by PowerPoint 01/05/2005 06:14 PM
Ever been stuck in an interminable meeting in which a speaker slogged through 101 frustrating PowerPoint slides? Ever finish sitting through a presentation and wonder, well, what the point was? It doesn't have to be that way. Business strategist Rob...

Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things

Jack Valenti says stupid things --
really, really stupid things 08/03/2004 07:46 PM
Tim Wu has rounded up some of the dumbest things that Jack Valenti said -- and he's found some real howlers, things that make Jack's infamous condemnation of the VCR ("the Boston Stranger of the American film industry") look like a walk in the park.

On the nascent cable industry, in 1974
"[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair."

On the dangers on media concentration, 1984 Op-Ed
"Will a democratic society allow just three corporate entities to wield unprecedented dominion over television, the most decisive voice in the land? There are now only three national networks .... There will never be more than three national networks."

On the public domain, 1995
"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?"

Link (Thanks, Patricio!)

Companies Understand Themselves By
Powerpoint

Companies Understand Themselves By
Powerpoint 04/09/2004 05:29 PM
While there are some who still believe Powerpo int is evil, it's become a standard necessity in every day business life. In fact, David Weinberger suggests that Powerpoint is how companies understand themselves. It's replaced the company story and has become "the company myth," so that employees themselves can understand the organization they belong to. Even in creating a sales pitch, companies focus on creating the Powerpoint slides - mostly because it reinforces their own understanding of the company they work for. While there are both good and bad results that come out of this, I think it's also a statement on corporate culture. Who gets to write the official version? While you can make changes on your own, you tend to leave the corporate story alone. While I'm not sure it's for everyone, I'd think that more "bottom up" style corporations would be better off using something like a wiki to define the corporate story. If you're building a story around the corporate culture, shouldn't those participating be a part of writing the story as well?

Dork Matter.

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