On Mar 2, 2008, at 2:59 AM, Steve Desjardins wrote:
> We were talking about this the other day. The patient chemistry
> students go to graduate school and the impatient ones go to medical
> school.
When I was at university the lab supervisors loved engineering
students. We'd go in, do just en
- Original Message -
From: "Ken Waller"
Subject: Re: Short Attention Spans (was Re: Pentax Photo Gallery Statistics)
>A few years ago I attended a seminar on marketing & it was the opinion of
> the speaker that the computer had changed our perception of timing ..
his surveys had
indicated as being acceptable, especially with the younger computer users.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
- Original Message -
From: "Bong Manayon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Short Attention Spans (was Re: Pentax Photo Gallery Statistics)
You can also see it if you teach. It is hard for students to even
conceive of a subject that will take years to master. (Fortunately not
all) I think the problem is that it's just too easy to change the
channel. When choices were more limited, people had to live with things
for a while and coul
Interesting discussion this afternoon on NPR about the Striesand
effect. Striesand filed a lawsuit objecting to a web-publication of
an image of her house. Nobody had seen or paid attention to the
image, but once the lawsuit was know, millions went to the site to
see the image. Many other e
Mark you're so full of...
...err...ah...sorry, what were we talking about?
Dave
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Mark Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> This larger trend is also reflected in the U.S. wine industry. The "Robert
> Parker" scale is really to blame. Parker tastes
An excellent observation on the part of Mr. Lanham. That's the
culture of advertising. Grab them and don't let go. It's my stock in
trade.
Paul
(University of Chicago, MA '73)
On Feb 29, 2008, at 10:54 PM, Bong Manayon wrote:
> I agree...and its not really confined to photos, wine or the Amer
I agree...and its not really confined to photos, wine or the American
culture either. I'm going through a book by Richard Lanham (Economics
of Attention, Univ of Chicago Press) where in the IT age, the
commodity is not information (we have too much of it) but attention.
So whether in the media, pol
Bruce,
This larger trend is also reflected in the U.S. wine industry. The "Robert
Parker" scale is really to blame. Parker tastes zillions of wines each
year, so each wine has just a few seconds to make an impression. If it is
subtle rather than big, and not "hot" (high in alcohol), it doesn't
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