This week’s fresh, dolphin-safe bounty of fine web treasures: Here’s a TED talk of skeptic James Randi denouncing psychic fraud and irrational beliefs. Lots of snake oil out there, even with knowing what we know. Facebook made massive announcements at this year’s f8 conference. Nutshell: they’re going to own the web and make the entire
Read More...Merlin Mann, one of the people who inspired me to write online, on how easy it is to become overwhelmed by useless online discourse: I really feel like that combination of little, easy motor skills and clicking combined with feeling a little less bored for a minute is completely addictive to people. When the main
Read More...Jerry Murrell, founder of the astonishingly good Five Guys Burgers & Fries, talks to Inc.’s Liz Welch: The magic to our hamburgers is quality control. We toast our buns on a grill — a bun toaster is faster, cheaper, and toasts more evenly, but it doesn’t give you that caramelized taste. Our beef is 80
Read More...Not a lot of energy for editorial today, mainly because I’m way behind on sleep because I’m a hockey zealot and incapable of not watching a Red Wings playoff game, no matter how late. And tonight, for game two, I’ll be up just as late as two nights ago, hopefully less frustrated, but still yelling
Read More...The truth goes like this: it’s a big vacation week, opening day here in Detroit, and I thought — naively, as it turns out — that I could get away with not worrying about the Friday links post. I was wrong. Turns out some colleagues here in the office, while I was wrestling with the
Read More...First some administrivia: we’ve had a pretty big spike in readership this month, so I’d like to say hello and thank you to all our new readers. This place would just be an empty echo chamber without you, so we appreciate your readership and RSS subscriptions. If you’d like to follow us on Twitter and
Read More...Matt over at SvN points me to the keynote address from this year’s MIT Sports Analytics Conference, which, on the surface, probably isn’t the first thing you’ll be Googling for in the morning. But despite it being moderated by Michael Lewis and featuring an a pretty good panel, it gets very interesting at about 20
Read More...Oracle has been on an acquisition hunt for the last four years and I thought it would be a good idea to talk about how some of these acquisitions are impacting the PeopleSoft customers we talk to every day, as well as to make others aware of some products that are now available to complement
Read More...You might think that in our fragile economy companies that target the huge, amorphous mid-market would be thriving. You’d be wrong. The ‘mushy’ middle market — served by brands like Sony, Dell, GM and others — is getting cannibalized at the high end by brands like Apple and Hermes, and at the low end by
Read More...I have to start with this: if you’re not following us on Twitter, please do. We also have an active Facebook page. We use those to share smaller bits of information and engage in community conversations, so you should follow us and become a fan if you’re interested in such things. Consider each of these
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