Regarding this post from last week, my classmates and I built a regression model that correctly predicted the Best Picture winner 82% of the time, beginning in 1970. According to our model, Hurt Locker is far and away the favorite, blowing Avatar out of the Pandoran sky.
Along the lines of New York’s “Seducing Oscar” cover story a few weeks ago, I also give Hurt Locker the political relevance and indie upstart edge, in addition to the plus that Cameron has won before, so it’s someone else’s turn.
Place your bets.
“Somehow you need to organize yourself so that, if someone steals your stuff, it’s good for you.” —
Jay Rosen, at the MBA Media & Entertainment Conference panel on “The New Business Model for News: A Look at New Emerging Revenue Models in Journalism”
Jay sat on this panel with Dick Tofel, former Asst. Publisher at the Wall Street Journal, now at ProPublica, and Nick Bilton from the NYTimes, among others.
It was really interesting overall, but I’ve been particularly preoccupied with trying to figure out how to make this phenomenon work. I keep coming back to network effects. Definitely not helping as I try to study bond yields and forward rate swaps.
Believe it.
“As money becomes completely digitized, infinitely transferable, and friction-free, it will again revolutionize how we think about our economy.” —
This month’s Wired cover story.
The Future of Money: It’s Flexible, Frictionless and (Almost) Free
I’ve got … about 70? Counting the native iPhone apps? Hmm …
Reblogged: vizualize
2010 is the year of the app
“To hear Jon Corzine tell it, Meg Whitman is either deceiving us or deceiving herself. Like Whitman, the former eBay CEO who’s vying for California’s Republican gubernatorial nomination, Corzine is one of the few people in America who has tried to make the leap from running a business (in his case, Goldman Sachs) to running a government (the state of New Jersey). He can only scoff when he hears Whitman arguing that deficit-ridden California desperately needs her corporate skills. Corzine also thought “the managerial skill set would be helpful,” he tells NEWSWEEK. But after four grueling years as a Democratic governor—ending in a humiliating defeat by an uninspiring Republican opponent—Corzine no longer believes that being a CEO prepares anyone for the day-to-day grind of governing. “The idea that you’re accountable to a bottom line and to a payroll in managing a business—it gives voters the confidence that you have the right skills [to govern]. But it’s 20,000 people versus 9 million. I don’t think candidates get the scale and scope of what governing is. You don’t have the flexibility you imagined. There’s no exact translation.” —
Romano/Hirsh on the rise of the CEO politician (via newsweek)
The MBA President (W) was a disaster. Clearly the CEO politician is as well. (via evangotlib)
Hey now, even though George W. had an MBA I don’t think it had much to do with his governing style or priorities.
I think Corzine is referring to the government’s ability to effect change with precision — the levers are different in the private vs. public sphere, as are the concerns of the stakeholders. I can only imagine how government would be befuddling to someone who previously could quickly shift budgets around, make personnel changes, etc.
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Good morning from Lake Atilan, Guatemala.
“God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God … Man creates dinosaurs.” — Malcolm
