In today’s TEDxNewYork, we discussed Daniel Kahneman’s talk about how we experience happiness differently in the moment vs. in memory. See the full talk at http://tinyurl.com/yf8oy3f, excerpts below. Kahneman is the Nobel prize-winning founder of behavioral economics. I want to know: How do you live in the present, and how do you help make memories [...]

I tweeted earlier about the problems with metadata detailed at http://tinyurl.com/2ddh7c8. I’m excerpting some of my favorite quotes below because I really want you to see them – check out the original post for great infographics and more food for thought. I want to know: What do you see as the solutions? – Kathy Sandler [...]

In post calling for e-book standards, the author tries the same e-book on 3 different devices, gets different results. Favorite line: “I know very little about computer programming ….But I know a fair amount about being a customer, and I know it shouldn’t be this hard.” Excerpts below. See the full post at Tele-Read at [...]

Robert Niles asks this question in the Knight Digital Media Center’s Online Journalism Review at http://tinyurl.com/yarmjmz. He states “Thanks to a generation of lousy ads for lousy products, many consumers have been conditioned to hate ads.” The link is to a Gizmodo article that says “From a user’s perspective, it’s absolutely horrifying” that “Apple Wants [...]

MediaBistro comments on a report that Nikkei, a Japanese newspaper, has limited linking. “In order to link to the paper’s site, readers are required to first fill out a rather detailed written application, explicitly stating their extended purpose for linking to the Web site’s home page…The paper said they’re worried that certain other sites might [...]

TheStrategyWeb posts many international ideas for measuring online advertising ROI, especially with the social web. Beyond click-thru to the “Golden Surfer,” “Dwell Time,” and to measure viral effectiveness comes “share of buzz.” Excerpts below. Full article at http://tinyurl.com/ygr42o7. I want to know what ROI model do you think makes most sense for online ads? “…In [...]

In “All the News That’s Fit to Mint” Time Magazine said of The New York Times‘s planned pay-wall: “The real significance of the Times’s plan to charge readers is symbolic. To a journalist, the Times’s admitting vulnerability is a crack in the firmament. It’s like that moment when you see your father catching his breath [...]

On MediaBistro’s eBookNewser blog, they are chronicling “The Making of an eBook.” In the first installment at http://bit.ly/501b34, the author says the indie publisher doesn’t want to create an eBook because they have to pay to format the book twice. It must have been around 1996 that I heard Chris Gulker, who was then at [...]

Saw this post through a link on an ASTD LinkedIn group. Has some good advice about leadership, but what I found interesting were the statistics and studies cited. Excerpts below. Full post at http://bit.ly/7zePH4 I want to know how will you approach the new year at work. “1. See it as a new decade, not [...]

CIO Magazine: “CIOs continue to grapple with the same IT challenges they dealt with five and even 10 years ago.”  Excerpts below. Full post at http://tinyurl.com/yduevcl I want to know when will we begin to see change? “No one ever claimed that managing corporate IT systems was easy, or without its fare share of tumult, [...]