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“HFcareers was conceptualized and developed in entirety by Human Factors professionals for Human Factors professionals.”
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Floridasexualpredators.com
Chicagocrime.org
Cytadia.com
Housingmaps.com
“All these sites are operating without Google’s permission, clearly violating the company’s user agreement. But none charges any fees, and Mountain View-based Google, which declined to comment through a spokesman, has made no effort to shut them down.”
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“The fact that 51 percent of North American small and medium-sized businesses are simply ignoring e-mails from high-value buyers is shocking”
It isn’t surprising or shocking to me. Customer service in meat space is poor so why would customer service via the internet be any better? Furthermore, this is old news.
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Interested in this […]

Seth is talking about podcasting again. He is basically making the argument that podcasting will fall into a power law distribution. I’d read Shirky’s comments on power laws and blogs and then move on.

Here’s a little story from Daniel Szuc:
“Last night on the bus ride home, 2 people were enjoying their 3G mobile phones. Both were watching video content with the volume on high. In addition to this, other mobile phones were ringing (some regular ring tones, some polyphonic). My question is, as these new services take off, […]

“Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out.”
Interesting analysis. This is a “must read” for information architects.
My take on this is pretty simple. The level of granularity has increased. […]

“In the short term, working over 21 hours continuously is equivalent to being legally drunk. Longer periods of continuous work drastically reduce cognitive function and increase the chance of catastrophic error. In both the short- and long-term, reducing sleep hours as little as one hour nightly can result in a severe decrease in cognitive ability, […]

A rather slick optical illusion…

People think that Apple is ditching PowerPC chips in favor of Intel x86 chips (or some other type of Intel chip). Daring Fireball has a nice summary of the situation.
But, perhaps people are following the wrong ball.
Here’s the clue. The next generation game consoles (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Revolution) will use […]

You can make money in three ways: (1) you make it (you are an employee; you work), (2) someone else makes it for you (you are an employer), and (3) what you own generates money (assets). Being self-employed can be thrown into the employer category, if necessary. I suppose you could add things like gifts […]

“Electronic News sat down to discuss the future of consumer electronics with David Milne CEO of Wolfson Microelectronics; Michael Maia, VP of Marketing at Portal Player; Jarreth Solomon, director of technology at Lexar Media; and Allen Leibovitch, semiconductors program manager at International Data Corp. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.”
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BBC — “Search engines are not yet clever enough to understand what the user is looking for”
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(Thanks Dano!)