The BlogHaus is a Great Idea

Most of us want to be noticed.  Bloggers like readers.  Politicians like press.  Non-profits like donors.  Businesses like prospects and love customers.  So any traffic you get for your blog or web site is good, right?  Not according to Scott Karp, Matt Bailey, and Kim Berg.  All have looked at the question of whether the…

After the first day of games, my brackets are doing OK but not great with my “wisdom of the crowds” methodology.  (See here for an explanation of this experiment.) The crowd did make 3 mistakes however: #7 Texas Tech lost to #10 BC, #7 Indiana beat #10 Gonzaga, and #11 VCU beat #6 Duke.  So…

I have enormous respect for teachers.  But the fact of the matter is that, as with any profession, there are good teachers and bad teachers.  Unfortunately, unions and tenure prevent the bad ones from being fired in most cases, unless they step so far over the line that no sane person could conclude they were…

So using my “wisdom of the crowds” methodology, I ended up picking 3 of the Final 4 correctly.  The crowd picked Florida, Kansas, Georgetown, and Ohio State.  UCLA made it rather than Kansas, hence the picks are not perfect. This past weekend of games did bump my bracket up from 24th to 15th place in…

The regrettable and offensive Kathy Sierra situation has spawned a story from the BBC about calls for a “blogger code of conduct.”  Frankly, the story is thin on facts, and carries little more than Tim O’Reilly saying I do think we need some code of conduct around what is acceptable behaviour, I would hope that…