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• The 10 Best Infographics for Internet Marketing Pros
  Yesterday I joked on Twitter that: Top 10 lists are sooo 2009, this year’s linkbait seems to be the “infographic” To which, Dr. Pete suggested that I should go ahead and put together a Top 10 List of Infographics! A great idea! Look, we both know that this is linkbait–a top ten list combined with infographics, c’mon!–but you have to admit, i […]
• America's Biggest Jobs Program -- The U.S. Military
  America's biggest -- and only major -- jobs program is the U.S. military. Over 1,400,000 Americans are now on active duty; another 833,000 are in the reserves, many full time. Another 1,600,000 Americans work in companies that supply the military with everything from weapons to utensils. (I'm not even including all the foreign contractors employin […]
• IBM Illustrations
  Après le projet Negative Space Illustrations, une formidable série de posters et d’illustrations par l’artiste Noma Bar pour le client IBM. Un travail sur les formes et les symboles en collaboration avec la graphiste Tanya Holbrook. A découvrir de manière complète dans la suite de l’article. Portfolio Noma Bar Previously on Fubiz […]
• Persuasion: The Third-Person Effect
  Why people think they are less influenced than others by adverts and persuasive messages. One of the most intriguing things about the psychology of persuasion is how many people say that persuasion attempts have little or no effect on them. Other people, oh sure, adverts, work on them. But not you and I, we're too clever for that. Attractive woman hold […]
• Fleming Painted With Bacteria [SciencePunk]
  The Smithsonian has an interesting article on Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin, revealing how the scientist used his bacterial cultures to paint works of art. Fleming used different bacterial strains to create a range of colours, timing his innoculations so that the different species would mature at the same time. From the OP: It is […]
• Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines
    For too many projects, there comes a time when every action taken, every decision and sacrifice made, is spurred on by pressure to finish. Tempers seem to shrink along with the available days, talk about “high standards” gives way to “good enough,” and people realize that deadlines are aptly named. During the last-minute crunch, someone may well wonder, […]
• Adjust the facts, ma'am
  The Boston Globe has an interesting piece on democracy, knowledge and reasoning biases, highlighting the fact that we can often decide facts are true based more on our pre-existing political biases than the evidence for their accuracy. The article is full of fascinating snippets from recent studies. One, for example, finding that people who are the least we […]
• But you're not saying anything
  And this is the problem with just about every lame speech, every overlooked memo, every worthless bit of boilerplate foisted on the world: you write and write and talk and talk and bullet and bullet but no, you're not really saying anything.It took me two minutes to find a million examples. Here's one, "The firm will remain competitive in the […]
• Using RFIDs To Take Student Attendance
  A University may be using technology to monitor students' attendance. […]
• Executive Lies
  Powerful people are better liars […]