Creators Step in to Defend YouTube

Deeplinks Archives, May 2010 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

“We can now be our own television and cable stations and our own record labels and record stores. We suspect that the threat that truly concerns Plaintiffs is not copyright infringement but just competition.”

Best Connected Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreaders

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Best Connected Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreaders in Social Networks

In a social network, most nodes are not linked to each other but can easily be reached by a small number of steps. This is the so-called small worlds network

Better Jobs Advice: Six-Figures Without M.D.

Better Jobs Advice: Six-Figures Without an M.D.

If you want to collect a six-figure salary, a medical degree certainly won’t hurt. Collectively, physician jobs dominate the list of the nation’s highest-paying positions, holding nine of the top 10 most lucrative jobs. But there’s good news for the rest of us: Although statistically more education means better pay, you can land a very high-paying job with just a bachelor’s degree and considerable work experience.

Why Big Companies Almost Never Notice Disruptive Innovation

Why Big Companies Almost Never Notice Disruptive Innovation | Techdirt

So stop worrying about some big, successful company copying your idea. If it’s really innovative, they probably won’t even notice it… until it’s too late.

25 Best Paying Jobs for Women

Better Jobs Advice: 25 Best-Paying Jobs for Women

But is salary disparity between genders the issue or is it something deeper?

Social Media in the UK, 2010

Where is your job going?

As I said in 2004 in my article “Your job will go too, but you can do something about it”, your job is leaving, and it is not necessarily taking you with it. So where is your job going?

  • Robots and automated systems (e.g. tel systems)
  • Illegal immigrants
  • Abroad, through offshore outsourcing

Pay attention to the words of the manage in the video:

  • productivity is twice what it is in the traditional part of the factory, safety is better, and “we think our inventory accuracy is 100%”
  • the workers is always on task. They’re really never without something to do
  • the operators compete to see who can work with (the robots)
  • 50% reduction in labour
  • defect rate 0%
  • training takes half a day, compared to 4 days training needed in the traditional part of the building
  • “enormous” energy savings (light, heating can be turned off)

Negative-footprint Chinese car of the future

Negative-footprint Chinese car of the future

Young, connected and Muslim

Young, connected and Muslim

Muslim consumers are a growing, influential and extremely loyal group, making them a desirable market for mainstream brands.

Superbowl ads and Neuromarketing results

Sands Research - Neuromedia Analysis

Below you’ll find links to each of the Top 5 ranked ads based on Sands Research’s proprietary Neuro-Engagement Factor™ (NEF) scoring system.

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