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A trio of MIT grads and design wunderkinds at Sosolimited tracks speech patterns and eye blinks, analyze body language and word choices, and run reams of statistics of the presidential debates. Related articles MIT grads’ technology gauges Olympic mood (bostonglobe.com) MIT Uses Social Media Tech To Gauge Olympic Fervor (sporttechie.com) Twitter Sentiment to Light Up London’s Ferris…
Book Excerpt: The Numerati by Stephen Baker – BusinessWeek. This is a pretty fascinating book and article on the uses of anthropologists/social network analysis at IBMin order to fit employees to the best jobs. The new trend is measuring everything, from keystrokes, to vacation destinations, favorite foods… Related articles Meet Apple’s Favorite Blogger (Business Week)…
Boston.com – Ideas – Globe. Both campaigns are linguistically all about Obama according to metrics of the word patterns in blogs. Related articles Republican ethos on display – Boston Globe 5 Things to Watch at the DNC on Thursday President Obama sweltered in Windham, NH, as he talked about his opponents … – Boston Globe…
NASA – NASA-Funded Carbon Dioxide Map of U.S. Released on Google Earth. Related articles Plants’ fungi allies may not help store climate change’s extra carbon (esciencenews.com) Differences Between Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide (differencebetween.net) New Tool Maps California’s Biggest Greenhouse Gas Emitters (blogs.kqed.org) The coal conundrum and global warming (blogs.courier-journal.com) You: Rising carbon dioxide in…
Where do all the neurotics live? – The Boston Globe. Related articles Personality Disorder & The Neurotic (jeremyhermanns.org) Neurotic men have shorter lives (pinnaclelife.co.nz) Let’s go to a spa meeting for neurotics! (feministphilosophers.wordpress.com) Delaying Gratification . . . part two. (writinglife101.wordpress.com) Evangelizing the Neurotic (fatherstephen.wordpress.com) Study: extroverts and neurotics feel phanthom vibrations the most (textually.org)
Surprising insights from the social sciences – The Boston Globe. This interesting article discusses a study on why some people are more likely to spend money the do not have. Related articles Have Your Money-Saving Plans Ever Blown Up in Your Face? (bellasugar.com) The Importance of Studying the Obvious (blogs.hbr.org) Paul Ryan caught lying about…
Bank REOs | Locate Bank REO Properties & Real Estate Owned Foreclosures | BiggerPockets.com. Banks list their REO listings on their sites in some cases. . Related articles FHFA Moving Forward With Bulk REO Sales (bayarearealestatetrends.com) Fannie, Freddie, FHA REO declined 18% Year-over-year (calculatedriskblog.com) FDIC reports Fewer Problem banks, REO Declines; Total REO Declines in…
Book Review – ‘The Political Mind,’ by George Lakoff – Review – NYTimes.com. Related articles Obama and Warren cribbed “build it” narrative from progressive Berkeley Professor (legalinsurrection.com) Obama, Warren’s “You Didn’t Build That” Meme Taken From LeftProg Berkeley Professor (sfcmac.wordpress.com) All Together Now – Political Metaphors – 08/16/12 (prn.fm)
Hurry up, the customer has a complaint – The Boston Globe. A number of companies are now developing positions such as Chief Twitter Officer, Chief Facebook officer, LinkedIn, YouTube etc. due to the growth of customer feedback in online web 2.0 communities and the need to address it. Related articles The 8 Things You Should…
Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer. This article argues that each hyperlink in the internet is like a synapse in the brain which now results in the internet having the computational power of a brain. Related articles Building a virtual supercomputer (thehindu.com) AMD unveils teraflop FirePro GPU (zdnet.com) The smartphone is the PC of…
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