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Yes, this blog is still alive!

When life and work conspire to consume all your available time, something has to give and blogging just happened to be in the firing line. We’re actually rolling out the first large (400+ user) site...
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Digg Reader Survey And Our Flawed Understanding of Online Behavior

I recently took a readership survey on the Digg site and realized there were some fundamental flaws in the way we are trying to understand online behavior.  And this is by no means solely a problem at...
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Quick update

I’ve been neglecting my blog recently out of simply having no time to sit down and write!  Lots of work, lots of traveling. I wanted to write something about the current health care debate raging...
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Social Media Research Report Released

I blogged about the Equation Research community research effort a few posts back. Well, the report has finally been released! Which is a relief. I’ve been helping Equation Research with the release...
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Fresh The Movie, and the struggle ahead

My wife and I went along to a local San Franciso screening of Fresh a couple of weeks ago.  It’s a documentary film by Ana Sofia Joanes about the Fresh food movement – locally grown and harvested...
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Research-Business Feedback Loop

I’ve been working with a client for a while to instigate a customer panel they can use to gather feedback.  When the old VP of Marketing dreamed the idea up a few years ago, it seemed like on of...
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Bing is not going to be a verb

But I don’t think that really matters.  Bing is of course Microsoft’s new search engine that went live on June 1. A lot has been written about Bing – most of it, surprisingly, not terrible....
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Java Toolbar Installation Trickery

I just read a post over on False Precision that has a link to this video of Sun Microsystem’s CEO Johnathan Schwartz talking about a whole new product venture that is based on, can you believe this,...
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Dashboards Revisited

I caught an interesting post over on the Juice Analytics blog regarding Dashboards. They were arguing against the common wisdom of defining a Dashboard as a ‘single page of information’. I’d...
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What is an insight?

I stumbled on a post over at adliterate that talks about how to discover insights. The crux of the argument being that an insight should astound.  That all insights need to be revelations.   No revelation...
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