Text Sushi by Alf Rehn

I’ve realized that RSS is hampering my writing. I’m currently obsessively checking news from at least 100 sites, reading several books in small installments, and depend on NetNewsWire about as much as I do on mail. This is not good. I’ve stopped writing to follow other’s writing. This must change.

Lovely article on research sloppiness:

“There is an increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims,” Dr. Ioannidis said. “A new claim about a research finding is more likely to be false than true.”

I seem to have made my way onto another cover.

Can I add someone who’s taking a course for me (i.e. one where I am the examining professor) as a friend on Facebook?

Read a nice little article in Forbes on “The Critical 1%” today. The notion of micro-trends, something that (in the current iteration) involves 1% of the population (obviously Penn & Zalense mean the American population) can be useful to challenge how we view innovation. For instance, according to P&Z 1% of Americans are “extreme commuters”, i.e. they commute to work for more than 90 minutes each way. This could be a fantastic opportunity for innovating entertainment products, cars, and so on. Heck, maybe even a club/platform for people who run micro-enterpreneurial projects during their commutes (hey, 3 hours a day is plenty).

Anyway, I think these kinds of moves towards “smaller thinking” are important. We’ve been stuck in “big thinking mode” for far too long.

I liked this little mag. Now it’s going away.

Time Shutters Business 2.0, Staff Moved To Fortune Magazine:

“Confirming the weeks of speculation, business magazine Business 2.0 is closing its doors. According to sources, Joe Mansueto, publisher of magazines Inc. and Fast Company, was in the running to purchase the property from Time Inc. for an estimated $5 million, but the two could not reach a purchase agreement. Business 2.0 editor Joshua Quittner (pictured right), author of Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace and former Wired contributor, will be reassigned to Fortune magazine.’ “

(Via Epicenter.)

This article on Rick Rubin in the NY Times shows how important the craft is, and I do hope that “traditional” journalism will survive the blog era. I was always impressed by Rubin, and this very well-written piece does him at least some justice.

Yes, I am a little late onto this, but the 10 Prof Commandments are just tha bomb. Even more interesting are some of the idio… American professors commenting.