Getting a good, well-understood model often takes you three-quarters of the way toward solving a class of problems. Persons’ choices among a large number of symbolic items still lacks a good, well-understood model for business analysis. Among a set of similarly instantiated symbolic items in a given domain of choice, item popularity vs item rank … Continue reading debating the long tail
Digital technology greatly expands economic possibilities for composing images and texts. Muraqqa’: Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, showing at the Sackler Gallery through Aug. 3, presents magnificent paintings and calligraphy combined in a variety of ways. For the rich Mughal court, as for digital designers today, cost didn’t constrain most design … Continue reading design ideas for aspiring moguls
In recognition of the U.S. presidential primary upcoming this Tuesday in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, here’s the best campaign video thus far: I think we can, I think we can, I think we can…
The physical presentation of symbolic works, e.g. music packaging and book bindings, play a key role in creating exchange value. … Read the post no music but in things
For more than four months, hundreds of persons a week have probably viewed a display of minerals and meteorites exhibited at the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC. A collection of minerals and meteorites were part of James Smithson’s bequest to the United States for founding the Smithsonian as an institution “for the increase and diffusion … Continue reading a peculiar advantage of Wikipedia