by Tom | May 30, 2006 | Reading
Who knew that we had the lowest level of representation in the western world? That’s in terms of electors per councillor. But France at 1:116 seems astonishingly small. I guess 1:2600 is too large for my voice to be heard. But my ward has 10,000 people and three...
by Tom | May 30, 2006 | Reading
Crowdsourcing is a nice new word for businesses like iStockphoto and Slivers of Time, where large numbers of people can make money in a “small” way. I think there will be a lot of similar businesses taking off based around hobbies (like photography)....
by Tom | May 26, 2006 | Reading
I love Scott Adams’ mind. It comes over Aspergers-ish, which is probably why. Today’s blog is a classic: how should science try to eliminate religion? We know lots of the psychological tricks they use and that we could use, so why not try them?
by Tom | May 25, 2006 | Reading
You have to love an article called Japanese War Tubas. But I don’t think it is bad science. Surely its excellent science, just superseded?
by Tom | May 25, 2006 | Reading
Always interesting to look at the state of the consulting industry. Healthy for employees, tricky on the profit margins, I think. Which means that it will get tricky for employees pretty soon.
by Tom | May 25, 2006 | Reading
At the end of this rant about the imprortance of numbers (I think he’s right, just it’s ranty), Mather has a quote from number 10:The plural of anecdote is not dataI had heard it differently, and I’m not sure which I prefer:Data is the antidote to...
