December 2007

I found the fact that more information does not necessarily lead to better decisions interesting.
“Michael Mauboussin of Legg Mason, a fund-management group, cites a study that gave horse-racing handicappers varying amounts of information when ranking horses. The more information they received, the more confident they became about their answers. But the success of their predictions was actually worse when given 40 pieces of information, than when given five.”

Makes you think.

This independent musician is singing the praises of her favorite web site. I sure do love the Internet!

YEAH!

Last year Sean McKay and I worked on the sun.com home page project along with many other talented people at Sun. This month they published an article about the project in Twin Cities Business Magazine.

I found this video via Jeremiah’s twitter. It’s a quick and simple explaination of what a blog is called, ‘Blogs in Plain English.’

Thanks to CommonCraft for producing ’sense-making’ stories in a complex world.

I heard the executive in charge of Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien on the radio last night. He said that most of the shows -the late night talk shows- were not written by Screen Writer’s Guild writers anyway, so they could essentially go back on the air.

I love that George Bush’s presidency has made it possible for anyone to believe anything just because they think it. I feel sorry for Jay and Conan because this will be painful for them. They need the writers, maybe going back on the air will prove it more quickly, but the time in between will be really icky and probably not funny.

This is Uncle Jim’s Mesa. I’m going to New Mexico to visit him after Xmas. It will be nice to see that New Mexico sky.

I recently discovered that many people are not as savvy about the Internet as you would think. When you post something in your blog. The whole world can see it. You have entered into a public space and everything you post is ‘out there’. Not only is it ‘out there’, it is searchable. So, it’s not like it’s just a big pile of your old papers sitting in your house, it’s a billboard that is not fixed in time or space so it can show up anywhere.

This should be of particular concern for parents today. I remember some of the things I wrote in my journals growing up and I feel very lucky that those things were not typed up and published to the Internet.  It’s a new world and we all have to wake up to the reality of how things have changed and be aware of how all of these new technologies work so we don’t harm ourselves.

I submitted this picture of Eda in motion at the North Star Roller Girls December 1st bout. Vote for it at JPG Magazine if you think it fits the theme, ‘Split Second’.

The Skullcranes are releasing the new album on Saturday, ‘Cum On Feel The Shortbus’. The show is at the Uptown. You should go and buy their new album. It’s the best they’ve done so far and they’ve already done real good, ya’ll.