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- This Week’s Links on Ma.gnoliaDecember 28 2008
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Some stuff I’m reading this week…
2) GIFTS & GIFTING | Eggnography.com - 12 Days of Xmas
Halcyon explains the gift economy in a very awesome way.The Human Brain - Sleep and Stress
Every animal sleeps, but why the brain needs sleep has remained a mystery. Neuroscientists now believe sleep is not only crucial to brain development, but is also necessary to help consolidate the effects of waking experience – by converting memory into more permanent and/or enhanced forms.How to get or lose or not get Twitter followers | Broadcasting Brain
Let’s (re)examine Twitter. It’s a running stream of Tweets: messages, comments, links, and other communication that you can see on the Web or by a mobile computing device. You can view the general stream of informatio - Kisses to HoHoTO TonightDecember 15 2008
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I made this little video for my friends, Duarte DaSilva and Ryan Taylor, some of the organizers behind HoHoTO:
Hello HoHoTO! from missrogue on Vimeo.If you are in the Toronto area and you haven’t already gotten dolled up to head to this, do it now!
- This Week’s Links on Ma.gnoliaDecember 14 2008
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Some stuff I’m reading this week…
Cory Doctorow: willing science fiction into fact | Books | guardian.co.uk
“A society that doesn’t protect unpopular ideas is one that is probably doomed.”Lessons from India in gender politics. - By Ray Fisman - Slate Magazine
In a study currently under review, Anderson and Flynn report that while both Howard and Heidi were rated as equally competent (they were the same person, after all), students described the female version of the character as overly aggressive, and were much less likely to want to work with or hire her. So the decisive, assertive traits that are often valued in leaders are received very differently when observed in women than when seen in men. Howard was a go-getter. Heidi was unlikably power-hungry.The Feminine Critique - New York Times
- Whuffie in Action: the UPS storyDecember 11 2008
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Waiting for UPS Bunny by Max EstesFirst…the timeline.
September 2005. I meet Thor Muller at a Techcrunch party.
September 2007. Thor and others get funding for GetSatisfaction.com
October 2007. I get a book deal for The Whuffie Factor. Time to start researching!
Late 2007. The folks at GetSatisfaction.com announce a conference they are throwing, Customer Service is the New Marketing. Tony Hsieh from Zappos is on the roster. I ask Thor for an introduction so I can interview Tony for my book.
January 2008. I fly out to Las Vegas to meet Tony and his team and totally fall in love with everything about Zappos. They become a bigger part of my book and Tony and I continue to talk. He gets interested in Twitter.
March 8, 2008. Tony starts tweeting.
March 8 - November 26, 2008 - Tony picks up Twitter like second nature, gains over 23,000 followers, gets featured in national magazines and we keep in good touch.
- ValidationDecember 11 2008
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