I found the fact that more information does not necessarily lead to better decisions interesting.
“Michael Mauboussin of Legg Mason, a fund-management group, cites a study that gave horse-racing handicappers varying amounts of information when ranking horses. The more information they received, the more confident they became about their answers. But the success of their predictions was actually worse when given 40 pieces of information, than when given five.”
Makes you think.
This independent musician is singing the praises of her favorite web site. I sure do love the Internet!
YEAH!
Last year Sean McKay and I worked on the sun.com home page project along with many other talented people at Sun. This month they published an article about the project in Twin Cities Business Magazine.
I found this video via Jeremiah’s twitter. It’s a quick and simple explaination of what a blog is called, ‘Blogs in Plain English.’
Thanks to CommonCraft for producing ‘sense-making’ stories in a complex world.
I heard the executive in charge of Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien on the radio last night. He said that most of the shows -the late night talk shows- were not written by Screen Writer’s Guild writers anyway, so they could essentially go back on the air.
I love that George Bush’s presidency has made it possible for anyone to believe anything just because they think it. I feel sorry for Jay and Conan because this will be painful for them. They need the writers, maybe going back on the air will prove it more quickly, but the time in between will be really icky and probably not funny.
I recently discovered that many people are not as savvy about the Internet as you would think. When you post something in your blog. The whole world can see it. You have entered into a public space and everything you post is ‘out there’. Not only is it ‘out there’, it is searchable. So, it’s not like it’s just a big pile of your old papers sitting in your house, it’s a billboard that is not fixed in time or space so it can show up anywhere.
This should be of particular concern for parents today. I remember some of the things I wrote in my journals growing up and I feel very lucky that those things were not typed up and published to the Internet. It’s a new world and we all have to wake up to the reality of how things have changed and be aware of how all of these new technologies work so we don’t harm ourselves.
The Skullcranes are releasing the new album on Saturday, ‘Cum On Feel The Shortbus’. The show is at the Uptown. You should go and buy their new album. It’s the best they’ve done so far and they’ve already done real good, ya’ll. 
In a Star Tribune article from last summer new legislation that Rep. John Lesch wants to ban pit bulls, chows, wolf hybrids, Akitas and Rottweilers is outlined.
They want to ban these dogs because of ‘bad things happening’ with these dogs. First off, yes, there are bad people that do bad things. Does this mean you should reach into the rights of everyone in the entire state and exclude their rights & the rights of their animals when they have done nothing wrong?
There are no bad dogs, just bad people. I have no problem with making the owners accountable. I have a big problem with BSL (Breed Specific Legislation). I have a problem with this because it’s a huge infringement of rights AND it doesn’t address the problem of people being attacked by dogs.
If you are interested in more on this topic, visit the A Rotta Love Plus web site breed specific legislation section which is providing many links and information about the activity around the legislation.
Facebook did apologize for the new Beacon feature. This is the feature that shared info from partner sites with Facebook and made it available for public viewing.
“We’re sorry if we spoiled some of your holiday gift-giving plans,” read the letter. “We are really trying to provide you with new meaningful ways, like Beacon, to help you connect and share information with your friends.”
I sent them an email in conjunction with the petition I signed and they did respond.
My email:
Thank you for listening to customers and treading a bit more lightly
and forthright in the privacy/personalization realm.
regards,
Jennifer Bohmbach
and the response:
Hi Jennifer,
We’re glad we were able to improve Beacon so that our users have more control over the information they want to share. We appreciate your feedback.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,
(Customer Service Rep Name Here)
Customer Support Representative
Facebook
