The death of newspapers
Time ran an article recently entitled "How to save your newspaper." It should have been entitled "How to kill your newspaper." Walter Isaacson is...
DoubleUs Marketing — Really?
I love when companies make big claims but don't even do the things they claim they can on their own sites or with their...
Weka Data Mining Tutorial – Part Two
In our first tutorial you learned how to data mine on your own computer and run complex predictions with Weka open source software.
This second...
Alliances can often be better than taking on the world alone
CNN recently announced that they are going to start offering a wire service to newspapers. Having experience working at a newspaper I know that...
Solved: SSL: certificate verification failed with R and twitteR
Have you been trying to use R and hook it up with something like twitteR and got an SSL error message?
Me too. But I...
Really a Best Buy?
In the world where using the web is hassle free why does Best Buy want a social security number in order to pay your...
What is your company dabbling in?
I have friends who run businesses. Friends who work at all different types of companies and the government. What does everyone one of them...
Politics and marketing–yes they are related
What does John McCain and Exxon have in common?Both are bad at marketing. Why? Do I really need to define pandering for you? Okay,...
Fear of crowds
If a crowd is swarming do you run to it or run away from it? I guess the answer depends on whether they are...
Why are tires so boring?
Automobile tires have looked the same forever. Sure, the size, tread, quality and such have changed. But what we see hasn't. Tires are black....
