Five Things You Don’t Know About Me

I got sucked into this chain blog via Scott Karp, and I’m following the heard. Boy, this meme sure indicates how much ego searching is going on! Here are five things you didn’t know about me: 

  1. I grew up on a classic wooden sailboat from birth until I was ten years old, and I received my “Master License” license by the U.S.
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US Internet Addicts ‘As Ill as Alcoholics’

New Scientist reports:

The US could be rife with "internet addicts" who are as clinically ill as alcoholics, according to psychiatrists involved in a nationwide study.

The study, carried out by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in California, US, indicates that more than one in eight US residents show signs of "problematic internet use".

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Promote Your Marketing Blog With A Flyer

Nigel Hollis, chief research analyst at Millward Brown, is a hip guy, especially for a research guy. But he’s the last I would’ve suspected to come up with a clever way to promote his blog. I recently stopped by the Millward Brown offices to interview Michelle de Montigny for the Engagement By Engagement blog, and came across this nifty flyer in the lobby promoting Nigel’s blog:

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This is one of the more engaging, non-BS corporate collateral pieces I’ve seen.… Read the rest

Using Statistical Sampling To Estimate Life & Death In Iraq

The market research world will forever debate the validity of sampling based research methodologies, and this will only increase as discernable, valuable niches proliferate. But those projection techniques certainly are not limited to marketing.… Read the rest