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| US edition features article on anxiety, while the rest of the TIME world is concerned with Revolution Redux |
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2/17/2012
TIME magazine being a wuss
This has been going around in form of an internet meme for quite some time. Time Magazine, publishing four different edition, has been substantially softening the cover story of their US edition.
I think that TIME has done it's research and found that serious topics on the cover decrease the readership. So really, it is a commentary on how are news (and idea of what one should know) received around the world. It is a somehow sad picture but one that needs some consideration. If TIME were a wuss, they would change the cover everywhere...
5/24/2011
Internet History - Hodgman
Another great video with my favorite correspondence.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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12/19/2010
"I am not stupid, I use Google"
Yes, when you know what you are searching, you will find it.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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We also use Google, for almost everything, really, but confirmation bias is a great danger when looking on Google for arguments that would support your side of the story. You will find them, but that just means there are more stubborn people like you.
Commercial sidenote: use Google to find vizitky (personal and business cards), and let us know if you can find some cool designs. We know we have a lot of competition when it comes to cards but we want to be the best and easiest to use in Czech Republic.
11/17/2010
Great interview with Jon Stewart
Look at this fairly long, but terrific Jon Stewart On The Rachel Maddow Show Uncut, it is a great summary of what Jon Stewart and his team do, but also much wider ideas about TV. Don't miss it.
On an unrelated note, me and my friend started a website to design personal business cards at vizitka.cz. "Vizitky" means business cards in English, but we sell also personal cards, allowing you to design them on-line, very easily. Wish us luck :-)
4/07/2010
Personal "business" cards are for everybody
Cards for personal use, for students, moms with kids, for travelers etc. Technically, they shouldn't be called Business Card but rather personal cards. In Czech, we call them "osobnà vizitky", but in English, the name varies.
- Personal cards (cardstore)
- Personal Business cards (vistaprint)
- Business cards for personal use (clickbusinesscards)
- Calling cards (article in time)
I Czech, vizitka means "business card", but is derived from "visiting card", so it actually has personal meaning embedded in it. Visiting card has actually quite an interesting history, I will get to that some other time.
2/23/2010
Ricky Gervais aka the stupid boss from The Office (UK version)
Ricky Gervais from the British BBC documentary The Office visits The Daily Show.
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11/28/2009
Neil Postman in The Daily Show
It's not that I don't like Rob Corddry and his ridiculously ridiculous ideas that make us laugh hard. But I really wished they payed more attention to my favorite scholar, Professor Neil Postman, author of the book Technopoly. His ideas are great warning and are worth spreading.
I am glad that they showed both sides, but I'd still be happier if Jon Stewart would have done that interview. Well, there are other interviews with Neil Postman out there...
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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I am glad that they showed both sides, but I'd still be happier if Jon Stewart would have done that interview. Well, there are other interviews with Neil Postman out there...
8/19/2009
The Daily Show on Health Care Reform and Obama PR
Funny comments on Obama's comparison of post-office and FedEx:
Heal or No Heal: town hall meeting with unreasonably reasonable guy
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Heal or No Heal: town hall meeting with unreasonably reasonable guy
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8/18/2009
8/06/2009
Chipms or Orangutanes?
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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8/04/2009
Obama kills a fly, Stewart is a wuss
News of the day (about month and half ago)?
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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America versus Iran: Who knows whom better?
And, a bit surprisingly perhaps, Iran wins, answering all the questions about United States of America with flying colors. Jason Jones is frustrated admitting even the goat shepherds know his country fairly well.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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Other Behind the Veil episodes.
And in this episode of "Behind the Veil", Jones investigates why Iranians are so evil.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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If you like these, you will surely love John Oliver's travelling interviews.
It is not all just fun, though:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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7/31/2009
7/09/2009
US media crazy about Twitter
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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"This new technology sounds adorable! Here is how Twitter works: I have no f***ing idea!" As Samantha Bee says: "Young people love it, according to reports about young people made by middle-aged people."
"Because we're rotting corpses grabbing for any glimmer of relevance,” eplains Sam why all the politics and media truckle towards young people with facebooks, tweets and similar gimick.
6/30/2009
5/31/2009
Milgram experiment and Asch's experiment
One of the most famous psychological experiments with, for me, very disturbing results and implications. In Milgram experiment, participants were instructed to ask other participants series of questions. If "student" reply was wrong, they were instructed to administer an electric shock. This experiment was to test how many people are willing to knowingly push a switch causing someone a pain or even endanger their life - simply because an authority told them to.
I really recommend to read the full Wikipedia article about this experiment, this is just a brief description.
Of course, no real danger is present, but participants do not know that. We must assume that the behaviour they show is similar to how they would react in real life. And the thought is quite scary.
When Milgram asked his coleagues, experienced psychologists, how many percent of participants will administer the lethal shock (450 V), they estimated noone would ever do that. In reality, more than 60 % of participant did. Two thirds of people were knowingly causing a threat of death just because an unknown authority told them so.
Many variants of this experiment in 1961 and following years showed that this was not a random behavior, but rather significant phenomenon - people are tought since their childhood to follow authorities' orders, even if they seem strange. They don't feel like decision-making people then, but rather they think of themselves as mere tools.
Sources:
5/23/2009
5/18/2009
White House Organic Garden Spikes Controversy
Samantha Bee investigates why Michelle Obama opening organic, green garden at the White House could be harmful. Frankly, I think she does a good job humiliating the hypocritical clerks and exposing their hidden motives.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
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Obama's spokesman confiscates Journalist's cellphone
Way to get the press coverage. These are the enhanced interrogation techniques, I guess...
3/06/2009
Search for reviews on Google - QRS
How to find reviews using Google? Quick Review Search might be the answer. It is basically a Customized Google Search, specialized on searching reviews on trusted domains. Trusted reviews can by found on sites like gizmondo.com or dpreview.com, and these are the domains this new customized search looks in. QRS might prove useful, since otherwise the search results on product reviews are full of ads and e-shops.
Using Google for review searching is sometimes very tedious work - there is just too many e-shops. This Custom Search uses Google to search only trusted review webservers. Please give it a try and let us know how it goes.
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