Author: Aditya

Now that's called critically analyzing the Disney way. Not exactly the kind of message you would want to pass on to children for sure.

Has some videos thrown in as demonstrations.

or as Stephen Covey says, think win-win.

A very interesting list of experiments that'll make you look & think very differently at yourself and the world around you.

"Being aware of this can help us avoid falling foul of the most dangerous consequences of cognitive dissonance: believing our own lies." – that's the key.

Independent learners make up around half of the user base & MIT is fine tuning their approach. Quite a few interesting use cases too.
"OCW must also develop a sustainable funding model. MIT currently covers about half the cost of OCW publication, and grant reserves support the rest of the $3.7 million annual budget. As the grant reserves are depleted, OCW expects to transition to a model similar to that used by U.S. National Public Radio…
Despite the global use of OCW materials and the widespread adoption of the OCW model at universities worldwide, we are still in the early stages of understanding the many ways these materials are being used to improve formal and informal learning, and we believe many opportunities lie ahead for increasing the impact of OCW materials from MIT and the many other schools that have chosen to share their educational resources."

More or less the truth & I doubt you'd have thought of them this way. As a bonus, also has a similar graphic for the princes\heroes.

View on analyst integrity from a Gartner analyst. The comments thread is in fact more interesting with a lot of debates & finger pointing, particular at sales who may be in part responsible for giving rise to the "pay for play" allegations.

A really relevant hype cycle for sure

Not all images work & it supports exact phrases only, so better have a good memory.

Quite a lot of ouch moments

Here too, money matters can be distracting. The key is to guide your mind to the right kind of things & keep them on top & refreshed.

Resulting in disasters like rockets blowing up & fatal radiation doses

Interesting take on Yahoo, and where technology startups should focus on. Also, big money distracts.

One of the more interesting posts in recent times. You have the option to choose the kind of emotions you want to experience depending on the setting you put yourself in. This is especially important to consider if you are seeking to build a brand.

Who would have thought that someone would get inspirations from comic books.

It all boils down to the kind & quality of interaction you have with your followers. Wonder when they'll come up with a metric for that.

No more trivializing the real meaning of insight.

"The fact that digital content can be distributed for no additional cost does not explain the huge number of creative people who make their work available for free. After all, they are still investing their time without being paid back. Why?
… because creative people crave attention in a way publishers do not. Prior to the internet, this didn't make much difference. The expense of publishing and distributing printed material is too great for it to be given away freely and in unlimited quantities — even vanity press books come with a price tag. Now, however, a single individual can serve an audience in the hundreds of thousands, as a hobby, with nary a publisher in sight.
For an author to be famous, many people had to have read, and therefore paid for, his or her books. Fortune was a side-effect of attaining fame. Now, with the power to publish directly in their hands, many creative people face a dilemma they've never had before: fame vs fortune."

Interesting and simple way to look at conditional probability. Would also be interesting to relate it to octopus Paul & his WC 2010 predictions.

Some usual suspects along with new ones. The comments have some more.

How long before it becomes passe?

The ROI of Social Media is like trying to ascribe ROI to a telephone line.
Part misinterpretation and misunderstanding of both terms and part the necessity to quantify in order to meet business objectives, are reasons why this enigma won’t be solved soon.

Interesting collection of tazos from different countries. You can even buy some of them apparently.

All thanks to the espresso book machine – http://www.lightningsource.com/ebm.aspx

Interesting concept catering to a niche – Gourmet food store providing cookery lessons and meal assembly, alongside food and cookery products

When do you charge a premium for a good or service – when its specially crafted or just to set it apart through its pricing?

A tad philosophical, and not the usual type of criticism directed at Apple.

Interesting concept that can be applied to consumers – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levy_flight

Co-designing or completing a system with the users gives them a sense of ownership & can lead to much better adoption rates.

Branded manufacturers are trying to get the hang of online marketing & selling through strategic tie-ups.