Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: May 2013

  • Fortune cookie

    Fortune cookie

    Fortune cookieOriginally uploaded by Ezra S F Not just live and let live… but live and HELP live.

  • Alienating Friends Through Correcting Misinformation

    Snopes is your friend. Even if you cannot remember the site, searching for a sentence of a text probably will pull up a hoax clarification site. Facebook is the new chainletter forwarding medium. The share button allows people to very easily and simply pass along anything. Often this is before they do anything to verify…

  • Dashboard vs Feed

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    John Pavlus in Ghost’s Blogging Dashboard Doesn’t Need to Exist fell hook line and sinker for Anil Dash’s All Dashboards Should Be Feeds false dichotomy. The better argument is dashboards only tell the past with all the noise where the more useful information is an accurate future. People ultimately want to know what is going to happen. The…

  • Red Uniform Effect

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    While watching the NFL draft the other day, a woman at the bar lamented about how highlights for players from all over the SEC displayed their prowess against the local university. I explained Red Dress Effect to her and the bartender. Obviously these football players were not women in red dresses. Red can draw attention.…