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Here’s my pick o’ the lot, the ones that made me click through:
- Okay: Et Tu, Bloge snagged me with a catchy title: Government Could Make a Whorehouse Boring. The post is actually about Canada’s lousy government-run casinos.
- My next click-through came because the teaser confused me. The post at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity is not confusing at all, and talks about a work situation that is an example of a classic difficult problem in computer algorithm: getting stuck at a local optimal solution (the best solution for the immediate surroundings). Finding the absolute optimal solution requires getting unstuck from that local optimum, and being able to look beyond neighboring solutions in the problem space. In programming algorithmically, you frequently have to settle for “good enough” because finding the optimal solution is too costly. In personal work situations, thankfully, we don’t have to proceed algorithmically — which is a long-winded way of saying: go for it!
- This next post caught me because I have a personal connection to Open Source Media (OSM™), née Pajamas Media. The post at Wordlab titled “Open Sores” is negative on the new name, the concept, the launch party, and a possible naming conflict. Because of the personal connection, I do not feel that I can properly comment on this.
- Brainstorming is one of my favorite activities (I enjoy improvisation generally), so naturally I clicked through to “Brainstorming 101” at Never Work Alone. My favorite pieces: the list of 10 suggestions from Stacy Brice to help get a brainstorming session unstuck, and a quote from Dick Richards: “The person with the marker makes all the difference, and technique is secondary.”
- Keeping a close eye on online revenue sources is personal for me, so I was quick on the mouse button when I read the title “BlogAds Analysis – Executive Summary” at The Business of America is Business. The biggest surprise: “on average left-of-center blogs significantly out-earn their right-of-center counterparts.” This executive summary is a quick read, and there are links to the full report and spreadsheets with the data.
- Talk about under a microscope… Open Source Media, announced less than a week ago, is the subject of yet another entry in this week’s CotC: Harshly Mellow opines about “Naming Pitfalls” and points at OSM™ as a (bad) case in point!
- Well, bust my chops: another entry on OSM™. Professor Bainbridge discusses an article by Ann Althouse comparing the business models for advertising through BlogAds and OSM™, and shows how it could be turned into an interesting exam question for a law and economics class. His students must works their b*++s off!
UPDATE (11/22/2005): OSM™ is putting its pajamas back on.
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