Yesterday, the NY Times covered Google Flutrends, a tool that checks the frequency of searches for keywords related to influenza, and then maps them over time for both attention and geography. Pretty cool, and eerily accurate as compared to official governmental results.
You can actually approximate the same thing with any other concept as well (previously, regarding economics news). Step-by-step instructions are after the link…
Although we often complain of absent or bad leadership, we do not pay enough (or any) attention to bad followership.
At some point in the near future, some industries will state that the giving away of product 'for free', as in the open source movement, is in fact a violation of Fair-Trade practices and might be a form of price-fixing.
Globalization weakened local markets, strengthened export markets, and lowered both wages and prices. A pending energy crisis will do the inverse.
The political press in the United States is a creature not obligated to give the people what they want; The press assumes that the people are incapable of understanding the truth.
The concept of “flare” is inspired by the seminal 90s movie, Office Space, where Jennifer Anniston’s character gets berated by her employer at a Fridays-Bennigans-Houlihan’s knockoff for not having the required amount of “flare” on her uniform. The “flare” is supposed to be the equivalent of a sticker filled bumper or the backpack covered with band patches and buttons. What does it all mean in terms of webculture?
