Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

The (not so?) long tail

Rethinking the Long Tail Theory: How to Define ‘Hits’ and ‘Niches’

In a working paper titled, “Is Tom Cruise Threatened? Using Netflix Prize Data to Examine the Long Tail of Electronic Commerce,”Wharton Operations and Information Management professor Serguei Netessine and doctoral student Tom F. Tan pull information from the movie rental company Netflix to explore consumer [...]

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Blogging homeworks

Why not?  My “back to school” week made me think about that. Yes, between 40+ hours of work with Ex Machina and 4 master degree classes there’s still time to think (OK, not that much).

It’s easy. Once an essay is written, publishing it is just a click away.
It’s a good way to show what you [...]

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Divorcer en se lançant des livres au lieu de la vaisselle

L’autonomie institutionnelle  est désirée par deux types de directeurs : Ceux qui veulent la liberté d’action et ceux qui veulent diriger leur empire au lieu d’être un acteur d’un système plus grand.
La différence entre les deux vient de la capacité de la personne à rassembler les gens autour d’un projet d’avenir et d’être prêt à [...]

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Education shifts, time-location becoming a process

When we thought about education, we used to think about a building, some brick and mortar place where we went to sit on a bench and acquire stuff from 9AM to 4PM. Some DIYers used to go to the library to do it on the side, and that was pretty much the end of the [...]

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HT.com, now on WordBook

Great plugin from Tsaiberspace, wich allow to automaticaly write on your facebook wall the content of your blog.
Only problem i found with it was related to image caption. Wordpress use brackets to manage it, so the content of the brackets would appear in the excerpt, something we don’t want. I modified the code to add [...]

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