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Online Opinion

Marketing vs Intelligence: The road to victory, or just some light reading

Interested in some futurey webernet things and how they’ll impact marketing, read this: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_publishing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_advertising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis http://www.chiefmartec.com/2010/01/7-business-models-for-linked-data.html http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2010/07/surfing-the-forrester-wave-listening-platforms-q3-2010/ If not, I am not bovverd. But I do wonder how far away an Australian Marketing Director is from actually being interested. My guess is a loooooooooooonnnnng way.

Some digital set-top boxes are more equal than others

A few months back, I bought a cheap digital set-top box (dgtec hd usb dg-hd6760) to go with my hundred year old CRT TV. I had low expectations to start with, but somehow, they weren’t low enough. Everything was fine, except recording to USB never worked and the aspect ratio was always wrong. So I [...]

Probably the best hotdog stand in the world

Better social networks

The Real Life Social Network v2 And for a bit of background on the research that went into this, check this out: http://www.thinkoutsidein.com/blog/2010/07/data-behind-real-life-social-network/

The Great Australian Nightmare

http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/605168 My sister helped produce the series. It feels a bit like one of those educational things you were made to watch in school, but like those shows, you finish them feeling informed and engaged. This episode is about the retarded attitude toward home ownership in Australia, and the way it’s been fueled by the [...]

Boat People & Australia

Who needs a Pacific Solution when there isn’t a bloody problem in the first place?!

Budgie smugglers or Druggie smugglers?

http://www.smugglingduds.com/catalog/6/underwear Genius. Where were you during all those “halcyon days” spent at Fabric? Maybe Tony Abbot should check these out too?

CEO salary crackdown!

CEOs of major financial institutions will now be required to humbly shrug and smile sheepishly before accepting huge salary bonuses. Read the full article

The Empathic Civilisation

Brilliant explanation of how society has evolved and the choices we have over our collective destiny. Superbly illustrated too.

England to win World Cup 2010

From memory, this report correctly picked both Spain’s recent win at Euro ’08 and Italy’s win at the World Cup ’06. In-ger-land, In-ger-land! World_Cup_2010 (PDF)