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Jul31
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I'm doing some more reading in Anthropology, enhanced liberally with readings in Evolutionary Biology and Ethology. I read something today that should have been obvious and wasn't until it was brought to my attention. Something being obvious once it's brought to someone's attention is a comment I hear a lot. From clients. As in, "Your suggestions are so totally obvious once you say them. How come we don't know these things?" Ah...well...umm... So today the shoe is on the other finger and something wasn't obvious to me until I read it; Gambling is not a wild activity, meaning animals don't gamble. Well of course they don't. Duh! Despite those pictures, you know they can't hold cards or dice in their paws. Come on. Seriously, the physiological effects that a habitual gambler and most occasional gamblers experience is part of every day life in the wild. The sparrows at my feeders gamble that the hawk flying over my house won't notice them or take interest. The chipmunks dashing under the feeders gamble that the fox crying in the woods won't burst forth and take them.
Domestic animals -- cats and dogs, primarily -- under the right circumstances will fall into so deep a sleep they will snore or twitch. These don't happen in the wild because a truly deep sleep is usually a death warrant in the wild. For that matter, humans didn't fall into truly deep, deep sleeps until recently in recorded history. Same reason. It's only been recently that the daily gamble was so heavily in one's favor that a truly deep sleep could be allowed. Even then, all you need do is fall asleep in an unfamiliar setting to appreciate how close to the wild you really are. Which leads me to wonder; domestic animals, the ones that can fall asleep so soundly they twitch and snore...do they gamble? I mean, how would we know? I can't even tell when my pets take a day off. Upcoming Conferences: Come on by and say hello.
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Jul31
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Underplug Part 8
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Curses! I used Jargon Again!
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Jul30
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Underplug Part 7b
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Underplug Part 7a
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Underplug Part 6
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Underplug Part 5
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They closed their shop for two months and (surprise!) they lost customers
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Jul29
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At the Edwards Rally
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Excuse me, but don't I know you offline?
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Underplug Part 4
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Responding to IMedia Reader Comments, Part 3
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Underplug Part 3
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Jul28
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Responding to IMedia Reader Comments, Part 2
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Underplug Part 2
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Jul27
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Underplug Part 1
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Responding to IMedia Reader Comments, Part 1
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Bibliography for AllBusiness.com's "Want to Increase Business Traffic? Play This Game to Learn a Design Trick"
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Jul26
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Nanette Marcus' "Is the HomePage Dead?"
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Jul25
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"Why Do People Go To Search Engines Instead of the Official Site?" on C3
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Jul24
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What's in a name?
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Jul23
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"Attract and Stick, Part 2" on AllBusiness.com
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Secrets of Landing Pages and Shopping Carts now on IMedia Connection
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Meanwhile, back in the office...
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Jul20
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Rebranding issues 3: How do you know if your brand/logo is out-of-date? How do you tell?
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Jul19
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Rebranding issues 2: How is an updated logo/brand vital?
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Jul18
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Rebranding issues 1b: How does one rebuild or redevelop his brand? What are the steps?
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Jul17
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Rebranding issues 1a: How does one rebuild or redevelop his brand? What are the steps?
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Jul16
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Continuing Conversations with Stephane Hamel
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Jul14
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"Attract and Stick Part 1" on AllBusiness.com
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NextStage goes to a Senator Clinton Rally
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Jul13
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Dylan Lewis asked a question
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Jul12
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Radically changing the rules of the game
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What does NextStage do, exactly?
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Should Brands Fear Wikis?
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Jul11
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Museum traffic up 20% over previous year
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Wonderful Memories of Museuming
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Jul10
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This is something Google does correctly
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Jul 9
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Humor from a NextStage correspondent (follow up to being misquoted)
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I got (mis)quoted...
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Jul 8
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How Politicians Want You to Think - Meta Analysis, Finale
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Jul 7
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How Politicians Want You to Think - Meta Analysis, Part 3
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Jul 6
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Intrusive Little Windows on AllBusiness.com
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Good Tidings from Stephane Hamel
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How Politicians Want You to Think - Meta Analysis, Part 2
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Jul 5
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Emetrics Case Study
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How Politicians Want You to Think - Meta Analysis, Part 1
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Excellent Example of Gender and Cultural Marketing
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Jul 4
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How Politicians Want You to Think - Governor Romney, Part 3
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Jul 3
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You just have to be there
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Predicting What's Entertaining
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How Politicians Want You to Think - Governor Romney, Part 2
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Jul 2
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Jim Novo thinks I'm Pretty (at least one of my columns, anyway)
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Journal of New Communications Research V2N1 now available
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How Politicians Want You to Think - Governor Romney, Part 1
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Jul 1
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How Politicians Want You to Think - Senator Clinton, Part 3
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Stating the Obvious on AllBusiness.com
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