{"id":5425,"date":"2011-02-26T07:54:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T07:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/26\/links-for-2011-02-26\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T07:54:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T07:54:03","slug":"links-for-2011-02-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/26\/links-for-2011-02-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-02-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/go-to-hellman.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/harpercollins-and-suspension-of-ebook.html\">Go To Hellman: HarperCollins and the Suspension of eBook Disbelief<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;A good business requires a good story. The customer needs to understand the story of how the business can help solve a problem or deliver a benefit. There are many ways of telling a business story. Some stories are utilitarian; others are romantic or inspiring. Many stories require the consumer&#8217;s willing suspension of disbelief. This isn&#8217;t dishonesty, but the customer has to benefit broadly from a business&#8217;s services and not be harmed by bits of the story that aren&#8217;t really true. Macs sometimes crash. Facebook sometimes leaks your personal information. The New York Times sometimes really gets the facts wrong.<\/p>\n<p>What you can&#8217;t do, if the details of your business don&#8217;t line up with your story, is to create cognitive dissonance for your customers by flaunting the untruth of your story. That&#8217;s what HarperCollins is doing with its new policy for lending its books through libraries&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/libraries\">libraries<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2011\/02\/wisconsin-really-about-kids\">Is Wisconsin Really About the Kids? | Mother Jones<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I think I would have been more open to this argument a year or two ago, but I&#8217;m less sure now. First, because it&#8217;s obvious that guys like Walker couldn&#8217;t care less about ed reforms. As Mike says, in private Walker makes it clear that his union busting efforts are mostly designed to show that he&#8217;s a tough guy, not to hasten ed reforms that will help Wisconsin&#8217;s kids.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, though, I&#8217;ve simply become less convinced about the value of all the ed reforms that periodically capture the hearts of the Beltway chattering classes. I&#8217;m generally in favor of things like charter schools and disciplinary reforms that make it slightly easier to fire bad teachers, but even if they&#8217;re worthwhile on their own merits there&#8217;s not an awful lot of evidence that these things actually improve the overall quality of the educational system. It&#8217;s not that there&#8217;s no evidence to support these kinds of reforms, just that the evidence is thin and contradictory every time I look at it. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/kevin-drum\">kevin-drum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/26\/sports\/ncaabasketball\/26fredette.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">Albany Unsurprised by Rise of B.Y.U.&#8217;s Fredette &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;For those who knew Jimmer before he became the Jimmer, the moment that best crystallized his sun-kissed senior season came when Fredette effortlessly swished a shot from one step inside halfcourt in a game against Utah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the shot that tells you who he is because he doesn&#8217;t even react,&#8221; said Jim Hart, who coached Fredette in summer basketball with the Albany City Rocks. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t smile or pump a fist. He&#8217;s more likely to pump his fist when someone else hits a shot, he knows that he&#8217;s going to do it.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/basketball\">basketball<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/nytimes\">nytimes<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wsf.tv\/\">World Science Festival Video<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">A new site providing lots of videos about science. Because you need another time-sink.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/outreach\">outreach<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go To Hellman: HarperCollins and the Suspension of eBook Disbelief &#8220;A good business requires a good story. The customer needs to understand the story of how the business can help solve a problem or deliver a benefit. There are many ways of telling a business story. Some stories are utilitarian; others are romantic or inspiring.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/02\/26\/links-for-2011-02-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-02-26<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}