Category: Miscellany
Why Aren’t We Better At Social Media Marketing?
Well, one reason may be that it is not as useful as it seems. On the other hand, the McKinsey Quarterly has some pointers for improving an organization’s use of social media as a marketing tool: [Today's] chief executive can no longer treat social media as a side activity run solely by managers in marketing [...]
Fun Facts for Friday: Literary Division
The video above illustrates this important literary insight from blogger Kevin Drum: “[Did] you know that most of Emily Dickinson’s poems can be sung to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”? It’s true! Go ahead and give it a try.” It makes one wonder if the same applies for the poems of Czeslaw [...]
Crowdsourcing Takes on Google
The latest triumph for open-source/crowd-sourced content is Open Street Map. According to Tech Crunch, more and more sites and services are switching from Google Maps to Open Street Map: Apple switched away from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap when it launched iPhoto for iOS. Foursquare, too, announced a similar switch just a few weeks ago and today, Wikipedia [...]
A Harbinger of Spring
Alright, given how sobering the last two posts have been, a change of pace is in order. Great image, eh? It is from a New York Times column on the 50th anniversary of the first spring training for the Mets. You can read the article here.
The e-Gutenberg Revolution Continues
We have posted several times (including just yesterday) on the prospects for 3-D printing to revolutionize manufacturing. In the same way, technology may be changing publishing far beyond anything we can imagine Springwise reports on Moglue, a new platform that enables anyone to publish and sell their own e-books: Regular Springwise readers may remember the [...]
Just Who is the Dumbest Generation?
According to Inside Higher Ed, a new report from the University of Washington suggests that today’s college students are doing a very good job of managing all the technology with which we’ve bombarded them. In her interviews with students studying at the library, [study coauthor Alison Head] said she heard countless stories of students who [...]
