Kyle Matthew Oliver

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  • Rave Within A Rave

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    My colleague David Meerman Scott just posted one of the coolest projects I think he’s done: a video in which he hopes to demonstrate the power of and principles for creating what he calls a World Wide Rave by starting one around his new book of same name. I do editorial work for David and…

  • Sunday Judgment VI

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    A couple of years ago, my one-a-day usage errors calendar (yes, I had one) went off mission for a page to tackle a pronunciation issue. I’ll take that as license to do likewise. To be honest, though, I think the author and an awful lot of other people make too big a deal about this…

  • The Hacker Within: Baseball Edition

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    With a little help from geek and proud, I’m now able to listen to MLB.TV radio broadcast streams on Kermit, the Linux machine I work at. Using the MediaPlayerConnectivity plug-in Alan suggests and choosing Totem as the default player in the configuration wizard seems to do the trick on my system (“i686-redhat-linux-gnu” according to configure).…

  • Point of Contention

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    Is The Tipping Point‘s central tenet–that “‘social epidemics’ are ‘driven by the efforts of a handful of exceptional people’”–correct? Some networks theorists writing in Journal of Consumer Research don’t think so. I won’t start my “Network Flows” class until the end of the month, but I think these guys’ central point makes sense: Dodds compares…