The next generation of viral marketers is educated. What is facinating to me is that I remember hearing about a similar meme (“hi, we’re a 6th grade class from a flyover state, send this email as far as you can!”) happening a couple of years ago, and generating so much traffic to the school’s emailContinue reading “The Next Generation”
Author Archives: Cameron Marlow
Owner of a heart
I’m currently in transition between the owner of a broken heart and the owner of a lonely heart, which is apparently much better.
They’re all garbage
My social networks professor Keith Hampton was qutoed today dissing the current lot of Internet studies. He thinks that studies showing that Internet use causes people to be lonely and disconnected (e.g. the Pew Internet Study, Nie et al. and Kraut et al.) are “all garbage.” I couldn’t agree more. Just look at their methodologies,Continue reading “They’re all garbage”
Conditioning Cameron
One time when I was drunk, and therefore vulnerable, a group of my friends made me eat a spoonful of vegemite for only $3. Okay, to tell the truth, I proposed the bet, and $3 was the most I could drum up (including a measly $1 from the only Australian contingent, who deserves to haveContinue reading “Conditioning Cameron”
Science goes overtime into penalty kicks
Scientists are helping coaches, keepers and penalty takers minimize the randomness of penalty kicks, which are the key to success in tournaments. A penalty-taker will try to disguise where he is going to kick the ball. But it’s hard to hide one’s intentions completely. In the fraction of a second before they kick the ball,Continue reading “Science goes overtime into penalty kicks”
Nearly there…
I feel like I’m the federation pilot on the verge of shooting my torpedo down the exhaust vent of the almost-completed Death Star… “Almost there . . . Almost there . . . 10 more pages to go . . .” Of course I’ll dud on this one, have to come back around as LukeContinue reading “Nearly there…”
Anne Robinson on Dubya, Texans, and men
Weakest Link host Anne Robinson thinks Americans are dumb, and her anecdotes are quite entertaining (especially the one about George waving to Stevie Wonder). But I wouldn’t go so far as to say that game show contestants are a representative sample of America. Case in point.
Putting words in your mouth
Wow. I’m sure that Conan O’Brian is all over this revolutionary technology, not to mention any number of Disney directors, given that the same methods can be applied to animals. If number of animators is limiting the number of movies with talking animals, I’m sure we can look forward to a never ending stream ofContinue reading “Putting words in your mouth”
Cradle to Cradle
A story on OnPoint tonight, a story about William McDonough’s preaching environmentalism beyond recycling. In his new book Cradle to Cradle with co-author Michael Braungart, McDonough predicts another industrial revolution where materials move beyond the “cradle-to-grave” paradigm, where resources are created with their demise in mind. Recycling can perpetuate the life of a milk bottle,Continue reading “Cradle to Cradle”
Sometimes I just don’t understand
What is with people and “reply all?” I’ve been using email for quite some time, but I wouldn’t say I’m an email expert. In all of my years, I have never mistakenly “replied all”. Somehow many of my peers, sometimes even tech-savvy role models are able to send a private reply to a public mailingContinue reading “Sometimes I just don’t understand”
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