Jodi Arias seems to be back-pedaling on the death penalty now

Haven’t written a lot about the Jodi Arias case, maybe because the Internet is utterly littered with the case already and I felt like I wouldn’t contribute a great deal to the discourse. Basically, Mormon horny guy (Travis Alexander) has… Continue Reading

Angry tweets are how you can get noticed

I don’t really actively go on Twitter that much — I send tweets from it and use it periodically, sure, and most mornings I realize I have about three less followers than I had the morning before and I think to myself Man,… Continue Reading

Mexico City is apparently building a massive, squid-esque airport

Look at this thing. It’s described as “X-Shape,” but it really does kind of look like a squid or other sea creature. Mexico City is the ninth-largest city in the world, and this thing is apparently going to cost $9… Continue Reading

Social Media: Focus on ‘retention,’ not ‘going viral’

Here’s an interesting little story. There’s a paper by Microsoft and Stanford University called “The Structural Virality Of Online Diffusion.” It’s well summarized at Convince and Convert, and here’s the essential rub: the researchers looked at one billion events (one Billion!) as they… Continue Reading

Cortana nailed the World Cup. Can it predict the NFL?

Remember this summer, how Cortana (the Microsoft personal assistant device) was perfect at predicting the knockout round of the World Cup? Well, in the immortal words of Seinfeld: The app is going to try and predict every NFL game this season —… Continue Reading

Future of Work: Maximizers vs. satisficers

I just discovered the blog associated with ‘I Done This’ — task management software, better (less) meetings, etc. — and it’s pretty good. Here’s an entry on “maximizers” and “satisficers.” There’s a visual comparison I’ll post below, but essentially you can… Continue Reading

Only about 25 percent of the world has a full-time job

Take a look at that chart above — it shows the countries in the world with the highest P2P, or payroll to population, rates. P2P is measured by Gallup, usually as part of the ‘State of the Global Workforce’ rollout… Continue Reading

Moreira Monsalve (“Mo”) case seems to be tied to Bernard Brown

Here are the basic details on this case: Moreira Monsalve (“Mo”) went missing in January of 2014; she was last seen about two days before her disappearance was reported, at the home of her boyfriend / ex-boyfriend (people disagree about the… Continue Reading