Posts tagged “academia”
Facebook sucking the life out of other social sites
I’ve been talking about this to some of my friends for quite some time that we might see something like this in the near future and now I’m starting to see it in my own behaviour. I’m talking about Facebook being so powerful of a community that it’s disturbing the use of other social sites, [...]
Tip of the week: Book Depository
Book Depository is not your ordinary book store online. It’s got a massive and very competitive range of books and even some audiobooks. The prices are almost always better than Amazon’s and what’s best: Delivery is free! I just ordered Getting Things Done by David Allen and Rules for Revolutionaries by Guy Kawasaki – total [...]
Pop quiz America
Sorry Roxie, but this leaves me wondering about the Americans :) Helsingin Sanomat published some results from different studies that quite honestly are shocking: According to the State Education Study, about 33% of Washington’s Washington D.C.’s citizens are illiterate. About one third of Americans are scientifically illiterate, meaning they are unable to understand simple scientific [...]
Lots of things
Haven’t had the time to blog last week, which was yet again pretty hectic. Over the weekend I exchanged e-mails with a certain Indian person wanting to publish our article in a book in India. The article was previously published in Journal of Interactive Advertising. It’s interesting to see how your work gets spread around [...]
Monopoly and crabs
I haven’t had the time to blog for ages, apologies for that. But last weekend was a blast meeting different very interesting people. On Friday, I went to play monopoly with future economists with a few friends and new friends to be at KY. There was a lot of hassling and dealing going on – [...]