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The scale of the Internet, 2009

March 2, 2010

A timely update of internet statistics, with commentary from Jeremiah Owyang at his blog, here.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
The video was designed by the agency Jess3. Their blog is a fun place to spend some time — they do a lot of cool graphics and data visualization [...]

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The January existing homes numbers point to a choppy, sustained recovery

March 2, 2010

The January home sales report from NAR felt to some people like a letdown — the annual rate of home sales dipped from 5.4 million in December to 5.04 million in January. Some pundits, citing the wildly wrong consensus projections from economists, characterized the results as a bad turn for the housing market.
Step back [...]

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I’m a Millennial! (just because a survey said so.)

February 24, 2010

Look at this!  I’m more of a Millennial than a Millenial, according to Pew Research.
I think that the big driver of my score was the absence of TV watching and my propensity to use social media and mobile communications devices.
I wish the score meant that you would have to pay more attention to what I [...]

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Some thoughts on the last couple of weeks

February 18, 2010

So what happened?
After months and months of a pretty steady production on ViralHousingFix, the publishing schedule got inconsistent. And, I’ve started a few things that I haven’t kept up, like The Good Reads posts.
It’s pretty simple. I’ve been taking some time to think.
Some questions and problems need to sift and filter. Around [...]

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How do you assess the state of the Middle Class?

February 5, 2010

What drives quality of life and how do you assess the circumstances of the middle class?
If quality of life relates to access to sufficient food and shelter to ensure good health, then an overwhelming plurality of American’s have good quality of life.
If quality of life improves when you have access to devices that reduce the [...]

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Forrester changes the Social Technographics ladder to include Twitter & Facebook users

January 25, 2010

Forrester has introduced an important amendment to its Social Technographics approach. They have introduced a new rung on their latter, called Conversationalists. This is behavior adopted by a third of Internet users.

Josh Bernoff explains the new category:
As you can see from the graphic, we added a new rung, “Conversationalists”. Conversationalists reflects two changes. [...]

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Jobs, leverage & the future: Thoughts about the challenges of an economic hard place

January 25, 2010

Sometimes a confluence of unrelated inputs adjusts one’s perception of current and future circumstance. The adjustment doesn’t always have a re-orienting impact; often, it is more notable for confirming and strengthening a point of view.
At the end of last week, I shared a summary of Bloomberg headlines that seemed to capture a pirouette in [...]

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