The Power of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer, Understand the Brain, and Predict the Future [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/powers-of-swarms/all/]: > In the 1980s cognitive scientists began to posit that human cognition itself is an emergent process. In your brain, this thinking goes, different sets
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Two big things I like about Twitter: 1. Source of content – links etc 2. Glimpses of how others see the world I think my Instagram feed was too weighted to people trying to achieve 1, e.g. Here’s a lovely sunset (satisfying on content alone.) While theres some of
Killing Home Working [http://socialoptic.com/2013/03/killing-home-working/]: > If someone smart makes (what looks like) a dumb decision, then they probably know something you don’t. There is, of course, a chance that you know something they don’t, but the further away from the situation you are,
You don’t want experts. You want jacks-of-all-trades [http://pandodaily.com/2013/03/22/you-dont-want-experts-you-want-jacks-of-all-trades/] : I feel like this is one of those things that’s easy to say when you happen to be a generalist. The fact is, people are either specialists or mediocre generalists. Or worse… Mediocre specialists.
Why Bitcoin poses an interesting ethical conundrum for journalists paidContent [http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/22/why-bitcoin-poses-an-interesting-ethical-conundrum-for-journalists/] : “What are the ethics of writing about Bitcoin if you’ve bought some?” – David Meyer Kind of says this in the article but I think buying a small amount and declaring it is
“why not offer an alternative cut back version of Google results that shows fewer ads and reminds the user why they fell in love with the search engine in the first place?” – Google Zero: the answer to the backlash | MaxTB.com [https://www.maxtb.com/2012/06/17/google-zero-the-answer-to-the-backlash/] I
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A “formula” for landing page optimisation – Smart Insights Digital Marketing Advice [http://www.smartinsights.com/conversion-optimisation/landing-page-optimisation/best-landing-pages-formula/] . via Smart Insights Digital Marketing Advice [http://www.smartinsights.com/conversion-optimisation/landing-page-optimisation/best-landing-pages-formula/]
7 years later, another look at Twitter [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/03/22/twitter-6/]: “The transformation of the role of tweets from the sole purpose to a caption that leads users to media content is, in the end, a microcosm for the journey of Twitter as a whole.”
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> too much formality — strictly enforced in all scenarios — could dramatically constrain the growth of grassroots marketing experimentation. via How formal should your marketing experiments be? – Chief Marketing Technologist [http://chiefmartec.com/2013/02/how-formal-should-marketing-experiments-be/]. One of the best article about making marketing more scientific that also emphasises the importance
“A good analysis of how the Yahoo Summly purchase is a weird one” – What’s Actually Wrong with Yahoo’s Purchase of Summly :: Hacking, Distributed [http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/03/26/summly/] “Let’s get some perspective here: Summly wasn’t reading Ulysses by James Joyce and extracting the fact
“What’s your engagement currency?” – Engagement Currency | whatleydude [http://whatleydude.com/2012/01/engagement-currency/] There’s an interesting conflict going on here and I think it’s to do with ‘exchange’ as an aspect of currency. To rephrase some of this in a way that feels clearer to me: In
“Bioshock Infinite: How long should an NPC look at a boat?” – Breathing life into BioShock Infinite • Eurogamer.net [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-30-building-cities-in-the-sky] I’ve a feeling one day we’ll look back on these years as a fascinating, pioneering phase of games meeting their mainstream stride. Insights like
