- How Obama Is Using the Science of Change – TIME – The existence of this behavioral dream team — which also included best-selling authors Dan Ariely of MIT (Predictably Irrational) and Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago (Nudge) as well as Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman of Princeton — has never been publicly disclosed, even though its members gave Obama white papers on messaging, fundraising and rumor control as well as voter mobilization. All their proposals — among them the famous online fundraising lotteries that gave small donors a chance to win face time with Obama — came with footnotes to peer-reviewed academic research. "It was amazing to have these bullet points telling us what to do and the science behind it," Moffo tells TIME. "These guys really know what makes people tick."
Posts Tagged: WTF
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Apr 09
Daily Links for April 8th
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Mar 09
Daily Links for March 16th
- Writing Tips: Enable Readability Statistics for Office Documents – Enabling the feature is as simple as checking "Show readability statistics" in the options panel and using the F7 key—after the spell check is complete, Word or Outlook will show you a dialog with word counts and the readability scores. If you don't have the time to take some free writing courses, this utility could really come in handy to improve the quality of your writing.
- WordPressPlugin – google-friend-connect-plugins – How to Install the WordPress plugin – Google Code –
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Jan 09
Daily Links for January 7th
- Calculated Risk: Fed Fears Long Recession – The Fed projects GDP to decline in 2009 "as a whole", and unemployment to "rise significantly into 2010". The Fed also expects disinflationary pressures to continue into 2010.
- air_force_blog_char.jpg (JPEG Image, 735×1106 pixels) – This flowchart highlights the blog reading decision making tree for the Air Force. I'd say it's actually quite good, assuming their intentions include being informative and not distributing solely propaganda.
- Google Trends: sears | closing | kmart – I've had a lot of search queries hitting my site for "sears store closing" referencing the "store closing list post". Based on the Google Trends chart, it's an annual occurrence, right after Christmas.
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Dec 08
Daily Links for December 8th
- Bush by the Numbers – ProPublica – The Bush legacy – by the numbers…
- The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words — Copyblogger – You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ~Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride It may be inconceivable for you to misuse a word, but a quick look around the web reveals plenty of people doing it. And it’s all too easy when we hear or see others use words incorrectly and parrot them without knowing it’s wrong.
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Dec 08
Daily Links for December 3rd
- PixoPoint | Specialists in the design, coding and implementation of websites –
- Hitler Emoticons [PIC] – Too soon.
- Teaching Online Journalism » What we now know about blogs –
- robcurley.com » The Five Ps – The 5P's, but for the internet…
- Business Dynamics Statistics – Home – The new Business Dynamics Statistics are a product of the Center for Economic Studies of the U.S. Census Bureau. The annual series describes establishment-level business dynamics along dimensions absent from similar databases including firm age and firm size. The new data series provides researchers with a tool to gain insight into the dynamics of a changing economy.
