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Any reactions to Super Bowl Ad frenzy day?

http://www.thestar.com/sports/football/article/934575--groupon-super-bowl-commercials-criticized

Here's one. Haven't seen the ad yet, but sounds badly executed. Mainstream America and subtlety don't mix well these days. user:mlwjones


 * Exam Schedule has been posted!**
 * CCT356 is on Monday April 11**
 * 8-10 pm in the DV gym.**

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Following from our discussion of whether Bing was imitating Google yesterday, an analysis:

@http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/how-much-does-bing-borrow-from-google/

FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver is a regular must read. Guy's crazy smart - inventor of the PECOTA measure used among baseball geeks, subsequently reinvented himself as an expert in politics doing some of the most detailed analyses I've seen (Canada's Eric Grenier - @http://threehundredeight.blogspot.com/ - is doing a brilliant job too for the Canadian scene.)

Anything Nate says about meta-level statistical phenomena, I'll trust implicitly until proven wrong (and he'll probably be the first to prove himself wrong - that you have to admire...) The detail and reasoning in his analysis is brilliant. Even if uninterested in politics and sports, read his stuff to at least learn how to make a proper qualitative argument. user:mlwjones

The attempt at showing the Oatmeal in class didn't work out. Here's the video in question. It's SEO done brilliantly. So brilliant, he's now a permanent feature in Tumblr and got props from Digg. If those properties are paying attention to you, you're doing more than fine as a self-titled "one-man operation". (N.B. He's not - order something from his store, and I think it comes from his mom, given the address and some of his previous stories that reference where he grew up. Of course, anyone who gets successful enough to employ his mom to send out posters and random stuff is fine with me. Not like I haven't benefited from or doled out nepotism.)

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Things real people don't say about advertising.

http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/

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