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A traveler’s guide to in-flight WiFi

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

You’re on a nice, long domestic flight. In coach. There’s a screaming baby two rows up; the pages of the in-flight magazine are stuck together with someone else’s chewing gum; and the 9-inch overhead CRT is showing a 2-year-old episode of New Girl that you’ve already seen a half-dozen times — without sound, because you always end up in the seat with a broken headphone jack. Oh, and you have five hours left to go to LAX. If you play your cards right (and pack some noise-canceling headphones), your next cross-country haul could be a whole lot more pleasant, thanks to in-flight WiFi. Nearly all of the major US airlines now offer WiFi in the sky. Thousands of passengers flying above North…

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A traveler’s guide to in-flight WiFi

Average Environments Beget Average Work

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

David wrote this on Jul 28 2008

Grady Booch delivered the following axiom at BrainstormTECH last week: “The average work of the average worker is average”. At first, it sounded perfectly rational. But on second take, I got really bothered by this. It’s based on an assumption of bad, average, and good as being static attributes of a person that I find whole fully offensive and narrow minded. In my experience, we’re all capable of bad, average, and good work. I’ve certainly done bad work at times and plenty of average work. What I’ve realized is that the good and the exceptional work is at least as much about my environment as it is about me. Average environments begets average work. Good people…

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Uncover Google Not Provided Data: An Interview with Chris Adams

April 21, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

In a recent interview from Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit in downtown San Francisco, Murray Newlands talks with gShift Labs’ Chris Adams about how to uncover Google’s not provided data and the benefits that can have for online publishers and advertisers. To find out more, watch the full interview below: These are the key takeaways from the video: In the interview, Chris explains people are looking for more and more ways to uncover not provided data. He says not provided data is becoming an increasingly important topic for marketing executives and agencies who are struggling with the fact that their clients are asking them where their traffic has gone and are unable to give greater detail on the “not provided” segment. Chris says that over …

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Google Revealed the Incredibly Simple Formula For Writing Killer Resumes

April 21, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

It’s not exactly E=mcÂ². But for would-be job hunters, it’s probably a lot more useful. In a Q&A-style interview with Google’s senior vice president of people operations Laszlo Bock, The New York Times’s Tom Friedman fished a few seriously helpful words of wisdom out of the search giant’s human resources chief. This one is perhaps the most concrete. How do you write a good resume? The key, Bock said, is to frame your strengths as: I accomplished X, relative to Y, by doing Z. Most people would write a resume like this: “Wrote editorials for The New York Times.” Better would be to say: “Had 50 op-eds published compared…

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Arecibo Observatory Detects Mysterious, Energetic Radio Burst

April 21, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

A brief, blazing burst of radio waves detected by the Arecibo Observatory could herald a turning of the tide for a peculiar class of cosmic signals. Until recently, the signals had only ever been detected by a telescope in Australia, a pattern that fueled doubts about their origin. Fewer than a dozen of these bursts, lasting for only a few thousandths of a second, have ever been reported. Called fast radio bursts, the signals are cosmic enigmas that appear to come from the very, very distant universe. But since the first burst discovery in 2007, scientists have not only wondered what kind of cosmic object could produce such a tremendously bright, short-lived radio pulse but have disagreed about whether the bursts are even celestial. …

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Arecibo Observatory Detects Mysterious, Energetic Radio Burst