Kegbot
Kegbot
Kegbot is a free, open-source project to turn your beer kegerator into a computerized drink tracker. Kegbot is an open source project, intended to beer enthusiasts, DIY hackers, homebrewers, and anyone with an interest in monitoring their beer.
Analysis: Beer + Open Source Software = Win!
TED Conversations
TED launches TED-specific conversations platform to elicit conversations around “questions, ideas and debates.”
TED Conversations
Analysis: TED + Forums = Win! But only if they can keep the trolls at bay.
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Steve Baker (author of Final Jeopardy) on Day 2 of IBM Jeopardy Challenge
Steve Baker Talks About The Day 2 Of the IBM Jeopardy Challenge by ahess247
Analysis: why Watson does was it does. Win!
Why the NYTimes might (not) be worth billions.
The basic thesis that the NYT should be worth a ton of money really so absurd? It’s an iconic global brand whose main competition as an iconic serious English-language global media brand is owned by the UK government. The New York Times Company currently has amarket capitalization of about $1.5 billion and if their P/E ratio were at the S&P 500 average, it would in fact be worth “billions” right now. So why isn’t it
Analysis: ARPU + Uniques – Operating Costs = Valuation
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Quality vs. Quantity
It could be that the nature of technological change isn’t causing the slowdown but a shift in values. It could be that in an industrial economy people develop a materialist mind-set and believe that improving their income is the same thing as improving their quality of life. But in an affluent information-driven world, people embrace the postmaterialist mind-set. They realize they can improve their quality of life without actually producing more wealth.
Analysis: Quality growth is slower. But growth nonetheless. Stop measuring it in the old quantitative ways.
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Black Hat Downs the Pretty Penney
Does the collective wisdom of the Web really say that Penney has the most essential site when it comes to dresses?And bedding? And area rugs? And dozens of other words and phrases?
Analysis: JC Penney’s black hat approach to SEO earns wrath of Google (as it should).
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Evolution explained 500 times over
This video is builds on that idea. It shows 500 people trying to do what should be a very simple task: tracing over an existing line. But as each person copies the previous person’s effort, the original straight line morphs into a chaotic mess of random squiggles. But it can be used to demonstrate evolution in action.
A Sequence of Lines Traced by Five Hundred Individuals from clement valla on Vimeo.
Analysis: You still don’t have to believe in evolution for it to be true.
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