COB-41: bureaucratic cooking
Good bureaucratic work requires well-aged ingredients, careful planning, and thorough attention to detail. You cannot bake your way through bureaucracy. Baking, braising, buttering, calculating, reporting, and all other forms of cooking have a bureaucratic flavor. A galantine de Poulard is an outstanding bureaucratic dish. The term galatine may come from the old French term for [...]
Great Depression concentrated newspaper advertising expenditure
The Great Depression that began late in 1929 and extended through the early 1930s had a major effect on U.S. newspaper advertising expenditure. U.S national advertisers spent less on newspaper advertising in 1938 than in 1919. In 1938, spending of national advertisers in newspapers was only 57% of the corresponding advertising spending in 1929. [...]
Tagged: advertising, newspapers
telephone social networks
Telephone social networks are quite small: I recently sat down at an SQL terminal with several hundred billion call records behind it. With a simple SQL query, I determined how many distinct people the average American telephones more than once in a given month (answer: five). Facebook users average 130 “friends”. Telephone social networks are [...]
Tagged: telephones
CareWare licensing
Arachnophilia, an extraordinary web page development workshop, is available under a CareWare license. Arachnophilia’s author Paul Lutus explains: here is a payment I will accept for a copy of Arachnophilia — To own Arachnophilia, I ask that you stop whining about how hard your life is, at least for a while. When Americans whine, nearly [...]
early history of paper money
The first generally circulating paper money is thought to have appeared in China in the tenth century. In his travels through China in the thirteenth century, Marco Polo reported that the Chinese used paper money. Paper money that closely imitated Chinese models is known to have been briefly used in Ikhanid Iran in 1294.[1] But [...]
Tagged: China
POS tagging
Umm, that’s Part-of-Speech tagging. What a POS.
trends in categories of fixed-line telephone service
Plain-old, fixed-line telephone service is shrinking rapidly. Consider US West, which became Qwest in 2000. It is a large local exchange telephone company (a former regional Bell Operating Company) serving the northwestern and mid-western U.S. US West – Qwest’s fixed-line residential and business switched-access telephone lines grew 3.3% and 6.0% per year, respectively, from [...]
Tagged: telephones
art belongs in the world
Tagged: review