Monday, October 25, 2004

Statistics For Data Entry: The Brave New Step [Slashdot:] 10:54:53 PM      Google It!.

Malcolm Gladwell on the instability of preference. A conflict prevented me from attending PopTech this year, but fortunately Doug Kaye was there with his microphone. The talk I most wanted to hear -- Malcolm Gladwell's -- was posted over the weekend. In this two-minute clip, Gladwell sums up the dilemma of the Aeron chair, a wildly successful product that might never have seen the light of day had the Herman Miller company believed its market research. From this parable and one other -- the New Coke fiasco -- he draws several conclusions. One is that preferences are highly unstable. Another is that, when you ask people to explain what they want, their preferences tend to shift toward the conservative, familiar, and easy to explain. ... [Jon's Radio] 10:51:28 PM      Google It!.

PalmOne Updates Treo Phone with Display, Battery. NEW YORK (Reuters) - PalmOne Inc. PLMO.O on Monday unveiled a new version of its popular Treo that adds a removable battery and short-range wireless technology to the device, which combines a mobile phone and digital organizer. [Reuters: Technology] 10:48:21 PM      Google It!.

Shared Learning Objects. Congratulations to Sandy Cobb and everyone else at Mid-South Community College in West Memphis on the launch of their collection of free learning objects made available on the web for anyone to use. Now - if someone out there could help them set up an RSS feed, we can get these objects distributed and widely shared. By Sandy Cobb, Mid-South Community College, October 25, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:46:40 PM      Google It!.

the wikipedizer. Now wouldn't this be a nice thing to add to an online learning resource. " A month or two ago, Stefan Maglenski released a nifty hack that scanned BBC news pages for proper nouns and turned them into hyperlinks if the phrase in question has a Wikipedia entry. Clever! The Wikipedizer is a simple RESTful web service based on Stefan's idea (and loosely on his code). Pass it a URL, get back a list of related Wikipedia entries." By Scott Evans, October 25, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:45:41 PM      Google It!.

Adobe, Yahoo to Integrate Products. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc. ADBE.O and Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O on Monday said they have signed a deal to combine Adobe services, like its widely used document-sharing program, with Yahoo's Web search functions. [Reuters: Technology] 10:44:34 PM      Google It!.

Buzzing the Web on a Meme Machine. The World Wide Web is the perfect Petri dish for memes, infectious ideas or any other things that spread by imitation from person to person. By By SARAH BOXER. [NYT > Technology] 10:36:18 PM      Google It!.