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Remarkable and inspiring post, John. Excited to read and share the full report!
The Big Shift From Engagement to Passion
For decades now, companies have been relentlessly tracking levels of employee engagement. Every large company I know has an employee engagement survey it regularly administers. Is it possible that they’re tracking the wrong thing? I’ve come to believe that engagement is a distraction from the re...
Auren, I almost stopped reading at the title, but didn't and was glad to hear that intellectual diversity was the distinction being highlighted. When it comes to a spouse, I think engagement and curiosity are two other winning categories - though they could be included in your big picture.
The “Pretty Girl” Paradox
A fast friend heuristic to determine who to marry, hire, or even invest in The “pretty girl” is the object of desire, rare and easy to spot. For our purposes, the “pretty girl” (gender neutral here) can be a potential mate, a company where you may want to work, someone you may want to hire, or ...
I dig it, though it's hard to overlook the expectation from years of looking at Techmeme daily that the clusters are ranked by importance and the that the stream is the same content ranked by recency and linked to its respective location in the importance-ranked left bar.
For anyone who hasn't spend years training themselves to have those expectations though, I think I can see what you're saying: clusters help show what's important, the stream captures everything else and sets the expectation that not everything is in a cluster? Generally speaking though, I really appreciate reading about the idea of visual design being used to offset exaggerated negative perceptions about quality from end users.
Designing User Experiences for Imperfect Data
Any system that uses some sort of inference to generate user value is at the mercy of the quality of the input data and the accuracy of the inference mechanism. As neither of these can be guaranteed to by perfect, users of the system will inevitably come across incorrect results. In web search w...
Cool, but the page says it's a month old! ;)
Introducing the Delicious Plugin for Seesmic Desktop
We thought we'd follow up the big Delicious news, with some Delicious news of our own. Today, we're introducing one of the latest and greatest plugin additions to our plugin marketplace: Delicious. The plugin was developed by Andrei Nitescu using our developer SDK, and is packed full of all t...
The data is not super accurate. Searches for Internet, for example, turn up a couple of books dated 100 years ago, etc. As an aggregate, though, I think the results look good. Agree it would be helpful to learn more about how data was selected etc.
Data Diligence: More Thoughts on Google Books' Ngrams
Since my earlier post on the new trending tool provided by Google Books, I've been thinking more about the service. While I've found plenty of interesting trends (more of which later), I've also been considering the underlying data and interface.Many of these considerations are common to any tre...
Thanks Chris! It was a pretty interesting first session!
Global Tech Metrics Changing Due to Digital & Social Media
The future of the World Economic Forum's influential Global Information Technology Report is the subject of the first session at the Techonomy conference today. A nine-year old in-depth report about how well various countries around the world are prepared in terms of Information and Communicati...
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