Op-Ed Columnist - Cult of Deception - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01dowd.html?_r=1
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01dowd.html?_r=1
Grice's Maxims of Communication
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http://www.truthaboutdeception.com/ways_people_lie/public/basic_rules.html
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http://www.truthaboutdeception.com/ways_people_lie/public/basic_rules.html
Reasons you should buy regular goods - The Denver Post
[Disconnection from the farmland] makes the general public highly susceptible to rumors and myths about food, and vulnerable to misleading marketing tactics designed not to improve the sa...
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http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_6474474
[Disconnection from the farmland] makes the general public highly susceptible to rumors and myths about food, and vulnerable to misleading marketing tactics designed not to improve the sa...
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http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_6474474
IBM poop heads say LAMP users need to "grow up"
I'm not objecting to someone calling Python simple, I'm objecting to then saying that because it is simple, it must only be capable of simple things.
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http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2005/05/28/ibm-poop-heads
I'm not objecting to someone calling Python simple, I'm objecting to then saying that because it is simple, it must only be capable of simple things.
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http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2005/05/28/ibm-poop-heads
Not All Software is/will be a Service
Whenever we get a Big Idea, it is human nature to think that it is the silver bullet, the solution to every problem we encounter. This is when we need to remember that this is rarely the ...
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http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=494&entry=82349&ca=dr...
Whenever we get a Big Idea, it is human nature to think that it is the silver bullet, the solution to every problem we encounter. This is when we need to remember that this is rarely the ...
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http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=494&entry=82349&ca=dr...
The kinda-eventually-sorta-mostly-almost Efficient Market Theory
If you think that Human Beings are rational, calculating machines, without systematic biases, whose behavior can be predicted with mathematical models, then EMH is for you.
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/11/the_mostlykinda.html
If you think that Human Beings are rational, calculating machines, without systematic biases, whose behavior can be predicted with mathematical models, then EMH is for you.
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/11/the_mostlykinda.html
Burning some witches
What sickens me is that we are not making anything better, but rather preserving a corrupt status quo. the govt appeases the masses by burning a few token ceo's at the stake while allowin...
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http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2005/06/burning_some_wi.html
What sickens me is that we are not making anything better, but rather preserving a corrupt status quo. the govt appeases the masses by burning a few token ceo's at the stake while allowin...
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http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2005/06/burning_some_wi.html
Tomayko's Zero Sum Law of Net Success
[Tomayko's formulation] echoes, for example, a great definition of news from William Randolph Hearst: News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
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http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000833.html
[Tomayko's formulation] echoes, for example, a great definition of news from William Randolph Hearst: News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.
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http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000833.html
Greenwashing
(1) brainwash uncritical citizens [...] (2) sap the energy and blunt the intensity of critical citizens by forcing them to respond to greenwashing ads and by inviting them into meaningles...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/07/26.html#a1222
(1) brainwash uncritical citizens [...] (2) sap the energy and blunt the intensity of critical citizens by forcing them to respond to greenwashing ads and by inviting them into meaningles...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/07/26.html#a1222
Intel wags mangy Centrino dog by Boeing's tail
To actively promote the idea that the open standards aren't good enough and that you need something that's Intel specific to really make sure it works is simply bad form on Intel's behalf.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1660&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
To actively promote the idea that the open standards aren't good enough and that you need something that's Intel specific to really make sure it works is simply bad form on Intel's behalf.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1660&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Gravity is not just a good idea...
Humans are far more likely to engage and embrace and believe marketing than they are to believe the truth.
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/08/gravity_is_not_.html
Humans are far more likely to engage and embrace and believe marketing than they are to believe the truth.
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http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/08/gravity_is_not_.html
Faith is Not Science
Faith without evidence -- no, faith despite amply contrary evidence -- guides so much of America these days.
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http://bayosphere.com/blog/dangillmor/080405/ignorance
Faith without evidence -- no, faith despite amply contrary evidence -- guides so much of America these days.
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http://bayosphere.com/blog/dangillmor/080405/ignorance
What Can Evolutionary Science Teach Us About Designing Online Commons?
How ought we to design and build online communities to leverage our evolutionary propensities for cooperation?
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http://onthecommons.org/node/555
How ought we to design and build online communities to leverage our evolutionary propensities for cooperation?
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http://onthecommons.org/node/555
The PR of PO
The fact that there is so much money out there eager to take Tierney's side of such a wager [(200$ oil by 2010)] is in my mind one of the key issues that peak oil advocates need to explain.
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http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/08/the_pr_of_po.html
The fact that there is so much money out there eager to take Tierney's side of such a wager [(200$ oil by 2010)] is in my mind one of the key issues that peak oil advocates need to explain.
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http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2005/08/the_pr_of_po.html
The Proper Attitude Toward Financial Regulation
Private contracts evolve in an attempt, given the state of technology, to find the most efficient resolution of the conflict of interest between managers and shareholders. Legislative rew...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/081005C.html
Private contracts evolve in an attempt, given the state of technology, to find the most efficient resolution of the conflict of interest between managers and shareholders. Legislative rew...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/081005C.html
Financial Innovation in Perfect Capital Markets
Financial innovation serves to free what development economist Hernando de Soto calls dead capital. Any asset that must be held by a risk-bearing specialist in that asset is less "alive" ...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/080805E.html
Financial innovation serves to free what development economist Hernando de Soto calls dead capital. Any asset that must be held by a risk-bearing specialist in that asset is less "alive" ...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/080805E.html
In a world of proprietary boats, thanks but I'll take the life raft
If you want the cost, security, stability and whatever else of your IT to be out of your hands and in the hands of your suppliers, well, you're welcome to stay on that boat.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1803&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
If you want the cost, security, stability and whatever else of your IT to be out of your hands and in the hands of your suppliers, well, you're welcome to stay on that boat.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1803&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Mono, Microsoft, and Mischief
Microsoft published the CLR and C# language specifications as international standards through ECMA and ISO, but it still looks like a proprietary controlled technology to the customer bas...
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/08/mono_microsoft_.html
Microsoft published the CLR and C# language specifications as international standards through ECMA and ISO, but it still looks like a proprietary controlled technology to the customer bas...
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/08/mono_microsoft_.html
When Confidence Fails
[Some] events and trends have the potential to shake the confidence of the American consumer like it hasn't been shaken in quite a while. The fundamental soundness of the economy may be b...
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http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2005/08/when-confidence-fails.html
[Some] events and trends have the potential to shake the confidence of the American consumer like it hasn't been shaken in quite a while. The fundamental soundness of the economy may be b...
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http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2005/08/when-confidence-fails.html
Dark Matter
U.S. assets abroad are really worth a lot more than we thought, because the official calculation doesn't include the value of the intellectual property.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2005/12/dark_matter.html?ca...
U.S. assets abroad are really worth a lot more than we thought, because the official calculation doesn't include the value of the intellectual property.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2005/12/dark_matter.html?ca...
Selling 'pandemic flu' through a language of fear
The online Merriam-Webster dictionary reports that "pandemic" was the seventh most frequently looked up word in 2005. But what the dictionary doesn't tell its readers is the definition th...
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0321/p09s01-coop.html
The online Merriam-Webster dictionary reports that "pandemic" was the seventh most frequently looked up word in 2005. But what the dictionary doesn't tell its readers is the definition th...
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0321/p09s01-coop.html
The Marketplace of Perceptions
The eclipse of hyper-rational Economic Man opens the way for a richer and more realistic model of the human being in the marketplace, where the brain, with all its ancient instincts and v...
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http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/030640.html
The eclipse of hyper-rational Economic Man opens the way for a richer and more realistic model of the human being in the marketplace, where the brain, with all its ancient instincts and v...
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http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/030640.html
Principles of the American Cargo Cult
The tacit assumptions underlying most popular content reflect a worldview that is orthogonal to reality in many ways. By reflecting this skewed weltanschauung, the media reinforces and p...
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http://klausler.com/cargo.html
The tacit assumptions underlying most popular content reflect a worldview that is orthogonal to reality in many ways. By reflecting this skewed weltanschauung, the media reinforces and p...
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http://klausler.com/cargo.html
Mob mentality
Depending on who comments on any particular blog story, the “meaningful conversation” can drift into half-truths and thrive on the hopes and biases that exists in the minds of the par...
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http://atticmooses.com/blog/2006/06/22/85
Depending on who comments on any particular blog story, the “meaningful conversation” can drift into half-truths and thrive on the hopes and biases that exists in the minds of the par...
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http://atticmooses.com/blog/2006/06/22/85
House of Cards: The tragedy of the credit system
...the article gets more depressing as you proceed.
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http://www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/exhi...
...the article gets more depressing as you proceed.
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http://www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/exhi...
