Monday Morning Digest for Monday August 26, 2013
I want to pay special attention to two articles this week. One is a short video that I hope you'll share with everyone you know:
One Easy Thing All White People Could Do
That Would Make The World A Better Place
A Safeway clerk screwed up big time,
but these two women handled it perfectly. Further proof that one person can
have a huge impact.
WATCH THIS VIDEO: http://www.upworthy.com/one-easy-thing-all-white-people-could-do-that-would-make-the-world-a-better-place-5
The other is a VERY
valuable article on how to start a successful money-making blog:
How I Built A Top 100 Blog In 12 Months & How You Can Do It Too!
This is the story of how this blog became a Technorati Top 100 Business Blog in
just 1 year. I even took a month off!
Read more at: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tutorials/how-i-built-a-top-100-blog-in-12-months/#ixzz2ctF7hLY4
Hey, if you're
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Thought For The Week
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
Site of The Week
Medium
From the folks who brought us Blogger, here's Medium. Medium is a new place on the Internet where
people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just
for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and
manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional
journalists to amateur cooks. It’s simple, beautiful, collaborative, and it
helps you find the right audience for whatever you have to say.
Go here: https://medium.com/
Eclectic Stuff From Around The Web. Some of
it really crazy, some really useful, some just really interesting and all (I
hope) valuable for you.
One Easy Thing All White People Could Do
That Would Make The World A Better Place
A Safeway clerk screwed up big time,
but these two women handled it perfectly. Further proof that one person can
have a huge impact.
WATCH THIS VIDEO: http://www.upworthy.com/one-easy-thing-all-white-people-could-do-that-would-make-the-world-a-better-place-5
How To Train Your Brain To See What Others Don't
Here are five things you should know about insight -- and ways to bring more
"aha!" moments into your life.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/25/insights-brain_n_3795229.html
The Kindly Brontosaurus
The amazing, prehistoric posture that will get you whatever you want, whenever
you want it....a foolproof method of persuasion for securing a seat on a
packed flight—and for that matter, for convincing authority figures of all
stripes to give us things that aren’t ours. This simple technique has an
anodyne name that belies its hypnotic, even occult powers. It is known as the
Kindly Brontosaurus.
Read more at: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/08/the_kindly_brontosaurus_the_amazing_prehistoric_posture_that_will_get_you.html
Aspirin for Cancer Prevention
Even as the U.S. government continues to spend huge sums of money underwriting
cancer research, public health agencies are failing to make people aware of a
proven, well-tolerated, low-cost anti-cancer drug: aspirin.
Read more at: http://bigthink.com/devil-in-the-data/the-ten-cent-cancer-cure
The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life
Modern archeologists, excavating ancient Egyptian tombs, have often found
something unexpected amongst the tombs’ artifacts: pots of honey,
thousands of years old, and yet still preserved. Through millennia, the
archeologists discover, the food remains unspoiled, an unmistakable testament
to the eternal shelf-life of honey.
Read more at: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/08/the-science-behind-honeys-eternal-shelf-life/#ixzz2cmz3Tcfu
What Causes Nightmares?
Was it something I ate?
Read more at: http://mentalfloss.com/article/52228/what-causes-nightmares
57 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up How We Think
People aren't as rational as we would like to think.
Read more at: http://www.businessinsider.com/cognitive-biases-2013-8?op=1#ixzz2cq5mWXJd
Eco-Fashion Hits Times Square
Leigh Wallace had a good job in the fashion industry. As an off-price merchant,
it was her job to shop and buy hundreds of thousands of units while wearing a
different outfit every day of the week.
As the months went by and the
company began to grow, Wallace started to wonder what the impact of all the
items she was buying was having on the environment. From the production of the
fabrics, mostly polyester based, to having the garments shipped thousands of
miles away, it was not an environmentally friendly process.
Read more at: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/257636-eco-fashion-hits-times-square/
Social Media Marketing
6 Effective Ways to Become a Successful Social Media Marketer
Even though people are aware of different social media marketing techniques,
they still fail to become a successful marketer. By digging deeper into the
details, you will realize that people invest too much time into social media
marketing only to get little to no results. The more shocking thing is that
these people think they are doing the right thing and try to justify their
expenditure using different metrics. In reality, if you’re not getting tangible
results, you’re doing something wrong.
Read more at: http://socialbarrel.com/6-effective-ways-become-successful-social-media-marketer/53034/
Language
14 fascinating language facts from the U.S. Census bureau
Americans speak more than 300 languages
Read more at: http://theweek.com/article/index/248560/14-fascinating-language-facts-from-the-us-census-bureau
Video
How Netflix killed the watercooler moment – and breathed new life into
TV
The success of the Netflix model – releasing the entire season of House of
Cards at once and online – has proved one thing: the audience wants the
control. They want freedom. If they want to binge then we should let them
binge. And through this new form of distribution, I think we have demonstrated
that we have learned the lesson the music industry didn't learn: give people
what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in – at a
reasonable price – and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.
Well, some will still steal it, but I believe this new model can take a bite
out of piracy.
Read more at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/22/netflix-model-watercooler-moment-stories
Mathematics
The Man Who Invented
Modern Probability
If two statisticians were to lose each other in an infinite forest, the first
thing they would do is get drunk. That way, they would walk more or less
randomly, which would give them the best chance of finding each other. However,
the statisticians should stay sober if they want to pick mushrooms. Stumbling
around drunk and without purpose would reduce the area of exploration, and make
it more likely that the seekers would return to the same spot, where the
mushrooms are already gone.
Read more at: http://nautil.us/issue/4/the-unlikely/the-man-who-invented-modern-probability
Environment
Dying dolphins keep washing up on the Atlantic. Here’s what could be
killing them
Factors that might cause bottlenose dolphins to croak in such high volumes
include disease, toxin exposure, ocean acidification, and malnutrition.
Read more at: http://qz.com/115367/the-scary-potential-causes-behind-the-unusual-dolphin-mortality-events-on-us-shores/
Entrepreneurship
10 of the Most Counterintuitive Pieces of Advice from Famous
Entrepreneurs
Advice about running a business isn't hard to come by on the internet, but
sometimes it's the most counterintuitive advice that works best
Read more at: http://www.creativitypost.com/business/10_of_the_most_counterintuitive_pieces_of_advice_from_famous_entrepreneurs#sthash.pg6nGPze.dpuf
SEO
Learn The Secrets & Mistakes Of 10 Leading SEO Experts
10 leading SEO experts have joined forces to share their top tips & secrets
covering everything from penalty’s to link building. You’ll also learn about
their biggest mistakes & how they recovered from them! It has taken a few
months to put together so I hope you enjoy it
Read more at: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tips/learn-the-secrets-mistakes-of-10-leading-seo-experts/
Language
Engine: The History of a Concept, From 14th-Century Poetry to Google
We think of "engine" as a mechanical device, but the word has roots
that go way further back, and illuminate some of its newer meanings.
Read more at: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/08/engine-the-history-of-a-concept-from-14thcentury-poetry-to-google/278611/
Color
Women at Google Looking Past the Glass Ceiling
When Isabelle Olsson, the lead industrial designer for Google Glass, arrived at
Diane von Furstenberg’s New York studio to fit models for the new device, she
wasn’t concerned about how the models would look strutting along the runway
wearing tiny screens and computers on their faces. Instead, she was nervous
about color.
Read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/fashion/women-at-google-looking-past-the-glass-ceiling.html?hpw&_r=0
Blogging
How I Built A Top 100 Blog In 12 Months & How You Can Do It Too!
This is the story of how this blog became a Technorati Top 100 Business Blog in
just 1 year. I even took a month off!
Read more at: http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tutorials/how-i-built-a-top-100-blog-in-12-months/#ixzz2ctF7hLY4
Content
Are You an Agile Content Creator? 6 Traits of Change Agents
In a previous post, I talked about why content marketers need to
embrace change to survive in today’s environment. Beyond just surviving,
what do content professionals need to thrive and prosper?
An agile learning mentality.
Read more at: http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2013/08/agile-content-creator-traits-change-agents/
Tech
Mercedes Is Testing Google Glass Integration, and It Actually Works
I put the car in park, unplug the phone, and put Google Glass on my face.
Within seconds, I’ve got step-by-step directions to a coffee shop down the
street beamed directly to my eyeballs. This is what Mercedes-Benz has planned
for the future, and not only do they have a functioning prototype, they’re
working with Google to make it a reality.
It’s called “Door-to-Door
Navigation,” and it’s just the latest in a string of high-tech pushes the
automaker has made in the past few years. It started with Mercedes doubling its
resources and employees at its Silicon Valley research center, which allowed
the automaker to work on a thoroughly revised infotainment platform and develop
one of the first comprehensive integrations of Apple’s iPhone into its entry
level and youth-focused CLA.
Read more at: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/08/google-glass-mercedes-benz/
Education
The Common Core and the Common Good
Our educational system is not keeping up with that of many other industrialized
countries, even as the job market becomes more global and international
competition for jobs becomes steeper.
We have gone from the leader to a
laggard.
Read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/opinion/blow-the-common-core-and-the-common-good.html?hp&_r=0
American Education and the IQ Trap
For students, one score doesn't tell all.
Read more at: http://www.creativitypost.com/psychology/american_education_and_the_iq_trap
How Brands Use Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] (Thanks to Jenna Kronenberg for
the tip!)
Did you know that 97 percent of top brands are using Twitter in 2013,
compared to just 62 percent in 2011?
See it at: http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/how-brands-use-twitter-2013_b48301?utm_content=buffer83fb0&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
Science/Education
Welcome to the Age of Denial
IN 1982, polls showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created
human beings in their present form. Thirty years later, the fraction of the
population who are creationists is 46
percent.
In 1989, when “climate change”
had just entered the public lexicon, 63
percent of Americans understood it was a problem. Almost 25 years
later, that proportion is actually a bit lower, at 58 percent.
Read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/opinion/welcome-to-the-age-of-denial.html?hp
That's it for this Monday morning. Have a great week!
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