Smallbrain Solutions

So, after the DNC sent out a crappy user survey this november (all text input, like someone is going to read hundreds of thousands of responses like that) and getting raked over the coals by Michael of EchoDitto (and others, but I like his best), they sent another email touting thir exploits and once again directing traffic to it.

sigh.

here is the form: http://www.democrats.org/feedback

I don’t mean to be snotty, but seriously. It isn’t very hard to design a REAL survey with quantifiable answers that you can actually use.

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The ever-brilliant Jim Moore posts this about Network-Centric Warfare referring to the NY Times article of the 13th. I had posted a link to a Special Forces essay on this topic this winter but, Moore raises a point = we should be working harder on Network-Centeric Peacemaking.

I need to do some research, but what forms would that take? Would it be similiar to the anti-globablization networks, or would it be a more low-intensity networking that would raise the social/political cost of warfighting?

Would our increased familiarity with each other be enough to deter future adverturing?

Dunno. Great post though. Go read.

UPDATE: Network-Centric Advocacy also responds to the NYT Article, but rather questions the effects of creating situational awareness for GOTV workers and other volunteers and staffers of campaigns.

I would think that is always a good thing - having the right info in the field IS a big deal but making sure to guard against info overload is a huge problem for us to work on.

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We all new it, but Magna Global (which sounds like a fake corporation - but isn’t) has published a Nielsen survey on people’s use of Digital Video Recorders (Tivo). Apparently , the longer people have them, the more likely they are to use them to skip commercials.

I am as shocked as you are.

Well, I am at least happy that there is some published survey data on the subject. As I tell my clients all the time, the best part about working online is that we can measure EVERYTHING. The scariest effect of DVRs, accourding to Nielsen, is that:

“DVRs only become a major threat to advertisers if we can’t measure how people are using them. As long as we know who is watching what, when, for how long, and what is being fast-forwarded and how often, the industry will adapt to new benchmarks and new viewing patterns as it always has,” he asserted.

Bring on the increased product placement.

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Clay at Corante points to IMSmarter, an IM archiver. He and the commenters question the “centralization” of the decentralized application (with good reason).

Commenter Charlie mentions that it is becoming standard practice in the investment industry to archive IM converstations. Clearly the political sphere (certainly the public sphere) needs to think about that. I would certainly be interested to see interoffice IMs regarding public policy - that one would imagine would be a matter of public record.

hmmm….

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ok. the smallblog is back, now that the election is over and my work hours have returned to normal.

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