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The Limits of Innovation: “And the last argument for the limits of innovation has to do with human nature. Why we choose to adopt things is not a logical process, and is fueled by culture, psychology, timing, and a dozen factors, many which have little to do with new idea X being better than old [...]
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I’ve added a few websites to the Crowdsourcing Resources page. Some highlights include: A prediction market for drug development Personal web-based crowdsourcing applications IBM’s internal translation project As always, let me know if I’ve missed anything good out there.
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The current issue of Wired (not available on-line as of this posting) has a must-read article cover story: Gone. The premise was to determine how easily someone could disappear and adopt a new identity in the digital age. While people can easily adopt a new life on-line, it would appear exceedingly difficult to avoid detection [...]
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So I will be traveling all day Wednesday and basically Thursday. Substantive posting will hopefully resume soon after. In the meantime, here are a few items to keep you busy: Over at Advertising Age, Ana Andjelic discuss why digital agencies aren’t ready to lead. This article was originally posted over at her blog, i [love] [...]
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So it appears that Google has incorporated a bit of crowdsourcing into their earnings calls: Rather than take questions from analysts directly, Google has asked Wall Street’s finest to submit their questions through a service called Google Moderator, and is only responding to questions that receive the most votes from other analysts. The selected questions [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
