October 2010
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Watchmore storytelling with beautiful data….an oldie but a goodie
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Can't pay attention, won't pay for content
Who remembers the Amiga, Amstrad or Commodore 64? These were the PCs that kids had in 1997. The pace of change in technology and communication over the last decade or so has been unprecedented; at the forefront of it are children. See Pauline Robson’s (a MediaCom-er!) thoughts on persuading our digital-savvy kids that content should not always be free.
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Where are you on the geek taxonomy?
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WatchBridging the gap between our online and offline social networks via @bassbinns74
some interesting thoughts on ‘influentials’ too…
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WatchFor anyone who hasn’t stumbled across Prezi yet - a great ‘anti’ PPT presentation tool
(this visualisation flows better at this link here - tumblr has squeezed the video into a gap a bit too small)
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Lovely visualisations of online behaviour over at...
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Eliciting intrinsic motivation - what motivates us... →
Fire up intrinsic motivation through autonomy, mastery and purpose in creative thinkers to encourage internalisation of even extrinsic motivators. Asking people to think ‘Will I?’ rather than ‘I will’ encourage them to interrogate themselves.
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Get Johnny No. 5 skills by teaching yourself to...
Test out the free tool over here
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From New Scientist's '50 ideas to change science'...
Cognitive control and the seat of conciousness, mental maps, mirror neurones, top down processing, neuronal recycling/plasticity and nootropics (drugged up super brains!)
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Greater Manchester police tweet all their...
can’t wait to see what the data visualisation geeks out there do with this data
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Self efficacy: *believing* you have limited...
Research from Standford Uni suggests that, contrary to the long held belief, willpower is not actually a limited resource that can be drained.
“If you think of willpower as something that’s biologically limited, you’re more likely to be tired when you perform a difficult task,” said Veronika Job, the paper’s lead author. “But if you think of willpower as ...
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WatchI’ve always liked the storytelling in this set of slides - plus the fab use of typography of course
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People join the herd even on Facebook →
Uptake of apps on Facebook could be more to do with the people who use the apps and their social influence on their friends than the intrinsic value of the app itself. Researchers at Oxford University found people display a herding instinct, making them want to use the same product as others, but only once it has reached a certain level of popularity. Users only appear to be influenced by the...
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Interview with the godfather of facial expression...
see here
and Ekman’s blog for a critique of the Lie to Me shows and his website for more info on how to read emotions
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UK Retail Traffic Weathermap
shows the volume of shopper traffic entering retail stores from month to month (from Synovate)
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Presentation Zen
Presentation inspiration - http://bit.ly/dkgUUV
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How brands are similar to religions...
“The brand name logo on a laptop or a shirt pocket may do the same thing for some people that a pendant of a crucifix or Star of David does for others. In fact, the more religious a person is, the less brand expression appears to matter.”
more here
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119 slides of digital loveliness collected by... →
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What role does social media have in activism and...
Malcolm Gladwell and Clay Shirky disagree on the power of the ties built through social networks…read the Observer article by Tim Adams over here
…and another very interesting point of view on the Gladwell article over at no pun intended:
“Facebook friendships obviously can’t replicate the kind of connection that motivated people to go participate in civil rights...
