February 2011
51 posts
How Your Nielsen Ratings Sausage Is Made →
mikehudack:
sectionfive:
According to this article, 25,000 people are being polled for the ratings. That’s 1/4 of 1% of the 100,000,000 TV Households.
That’s not an accurate sampling. It sounds like a joke.
(via NewTeeVee)
It is a joke.
The math involved here is really interesting and non-intuitive, as evidenced in the dichotomy of the comments/notes. The spirit of this comment is true:...
January 2011
46 posts
“there has been speculation that it shifted purchases to accounts managed by...”
– China May Be Masking Its Purchase of U.S. Securities - NYTimes.com
“The Alliance for Downtown New York counted 60 media companies now in or moving...”
– Near Old Newspaper Row in Lower Manhattan, the Media Return - NYTimes.com
Media companies taking over the financial district.
“Roughly 1% of global oil production passes through the Suez Canal, depending on...”
– Egypt’s Regime on the Brink - WSJ.com (via apsies)
The other six oil transit chokepoints:
Bab el-Mandab Bosporus Straits Strait of Hormuz Malacca Panama Canal Russian Oil and Gas Pipelines/Export Ports Suez Canal
“Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped...”
– Ayn Rand took government assistance while decrying others who did the same - Boing Boing
“The number of our registered members is higher than the number of actual...”
– LinkedIn Registration Statement on Form S-1
Welcome to the web.
Oscar's Snubs and Surprises: Nolan Left out Again... →
“S. Korea expected to bring captured Somali pirates to Seoul for trial”
– S. Korea expected to bring captured Somali pirates to Seoul for trial: official
Hacker News | Humans.txt, like robots.txt, but for... →
“The most common way to get rich is to start a business: nearly half (47%) of the...”
– A special report on global leaders: More millionaires than Australians | The Economist
“In 1776, both American accents and British accents were largely rhotic. It was...”
– Nick Patrick - Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
“I’ve heard that Page is mercurial, hard to connect with, and dismissive,...”
– Google: How has Larry Page’s promotion to CEO gone over with the rank and file? Are Google’s staff excited, in the main, or are they concerned? - Quora
John Battelle’s answer.
“PERFORMANCE reviews have become part of the corporate culture. So has...”
– Performance reviews: How to do a performance review | The Economist
$20 Amazon gift card for $10 on living social →
caterpillarcowboy:
heykurt:
adamgotterer:
I find it hard to imagine that Amazon needs to acquire new users. Anyone tech savvy enough to be using living social probably uses Amazon. Either way, a free $10.
You’re right. But Living Social needs new users and Amazon, as an investor, is willing to help out.
I am sure Dave will have something to say about this.
I suspect the Lifetime Value...
“If you win this auction I will mail you a piece of paper revealing the true...”
– The Identity of “Banksy” - eBay (item 260720844294 end time Jan-19-11 07:22:22 PST)
“QOTD: “he devoted himself to sewage because of his love of the...”
– Odd Jobs: Keeping the Sewage Flowing - Metropolis - WSJ
“Mr Ben Ali has stood down as president and apparently left the country.”
– Turmoil in Tunisia: Turmoil in Tunis | The Economist
Hoping all my friends in Tunis stay safe.
"The U.S. patent system is so messed up, I could... →
“Verizon had a zero failure rate, and AT&T had an 89 percent failure rate...”
– How Wireless Networks Fared at CES - NYTimes.com
“George de Hevesy is credited with dissolving two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia and...”
– How aqua regia saved Nobel Prize medals from the Nazis | A Schooner of Science
“A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM IS LIKELY LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. HEAVY SNOWFALL...”
– National Weather Service
Another storm coming, NYC
“I encountered three Kenyans who had been among the top finishers. They pointed...”
– Minimalist sneakers send runner limping away - The Boston Globe (via pk)
“One disheartening result was that our package received more abuse when marked...”
– Marginal Revolution: Which shipping company is kindest to your packages?
It’s better to not reveal packages as fragile!
“the magnetic north pole… is moving nearly 40 miles a year toward Russia...”
– Tampa Tribune: Moving magnetic polce forces runway changes
“A central issue with the Internet, no matter what device and presentation layer...”
– A VC: Mobile Economics Will Trend Toward Web Economics (via sawickipedia)
To repeat Fred: Scarcity is not a viable business model on the internet.
(via caterpillarcowboy)
I’m nitpicking but allocation of scarce resources is central to economics/business. What Fred really means is that...
Twitter Launches Mac Client- No Plans For A... →
Wait, I thought the “business guys” were now in charge at Twitter…?
Spend money offline to make money online- Asia... →
joevc:
An enlightening session via @plus8star at LeWeb with Asia’s numerous, billion dollar social network & gaming leaders. One of the surprising stats is that GREE, one of Japan’s leading social networks with a focus on mobile and gaming, spends $10M per month on television advertising. They acquire users at $15 and generate a monthly ARPU of $2. The participants are looking...
“we think a significant number of first-generation iPad buyers will buy iPad 2...”
– US Tablet Sales Will More Than Double This Year | Forrester Blogs
“Android engineers say that better hardware will eventually solve the problem —...”
– satine.org – The Care and Feeding of the Android GPU (via jnolan)
It confuses me when an EECS guy makes a comment like this, which goes against what we know as one of the biggest claimed benefits of dual core.
