by Tom | Jun 24, 2009 | Business
I have a growing fondness for experimental economics (feels more like science to me) and the fact that Google considers most of its search operations as an auction and can alter results to perform economic trials is heartening. Let’s just hope they publish some...
by Tom | Jun 23, 2009 | IT
Interesting that Google uses a substantial number of human searchers to ensure that its results continue to be of high quality. How could you open source the data deriving from this kind of process? Not part of Google’s business model, but good for anyone else...
by Tom | Jun 23, 2009 | Reading
NY schools find a substantial jump in grades after they pay school kids for results. I can see why this might seem shocking to some (”learning should be its own reward”) but if it works and is cost-effective (better engagement, lower drop outs and...
by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Interesting graph plotting followers vs Tweet volume. Looks like there are three clear phases: 1) use it to tweet a "what is this for" message and then nothing, 2) put a few updates a day on (from a blog maybe) and 3) a fairly steady ramp up after 800...
by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Nice article from Charles Arthur helping to shine some light on a number of debates. Journalism is a process, nothing more. There is a business wrapper around it called publishing which makes it profitable and sustainable (or not). We shouldn´t confuse or...
by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Bad stats, maybe. As Ben says, home taping didn´t do it, neither recordable CDs and nor will the internet. As I keep banging on about (and now the research supports): we want to pay for music, not for music companies. As Charles Dunstone says: you can´t...
by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Can universities survive in their current form? Large classes and lecture-based broadcast teaching seem at odds with a) the value of university in teaching you how to learn and how to analyse and b) the way the younger generations use the knowledge available on the...
by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
I´ll back a call for reducing fund management fees: though most of ours are underwater post recession, so it´s even more ironic. Just as the concierge agency trying to charge a percentage fee on our building costs as a finders fee, it just feels wrong that...
by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | IT
Interesting graph plotting followers vs Tweet volume. Looks like there are three clear phases: 1) use it to tweet a “what is this for” message and then nothing, 2) put a few updates a day on (from a blog maybe) and 3) a fairly steady ramp up after 800...
by Tom | Jun 12, 2009 | Reading
Lots of people will love Songkick. I haven’t really done enough gigging to benefit, I guess. However, I could get Pegasus going on classical gigs. Now that could work… And what about the same thing for plays?
