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Cinnamon Game Harms Players
Calls to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) related to cinnamon increased from 51 in 2011 to 178 calls in the first 6 months of 2012, wrote Steven Lipshultz, MD, of University of Miami’s Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Florida, and colleagues, online in a Perspective in Pediatrics.
Of the 178 calls, 122 (69%) were classified as intentional misuse or abuse “consistent with the cinnamon challenge,” the authors wrote, and about (17%) required medical attention.
The challenge requires a person to swallow a tablespoon of the dry, ground spice in 60 seconds without drinking fluids.
The authors pointed to 51,000 YouTube video clips — one viewed 19 million times — as of August 2012 that showed adolescents watching someone coughing and choking as the cinnamon triggers a severe gag reflex. They said the popularity of the Internet coupled with peer pressure instigated too many cinnamon challenges.
via Cinnamon Game Harms Players.
I am so thankful my own children are (mostly) past the stupid stage.
Seth’s Blog: Building your Backlist (and living with it forever)
Your history of work is as important as the work you’ll do tomorrow.
via Seth’s Blog: Building your backlist (and living with it forever).
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
What you post online stays forever.
Think before you post.
If You’re Serious About Ideas, Get Serious About Blogging
Indeed, if you want to shape public opinion, you need to be the one creating the narrative.
via If You’re Serious About Ideas, Get Serious About Blogging – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review.
Twitter and Facebook ‘harming children’s development’ – Telegraph
A generation of children risks growing up with obsessive personalities, poor self-control, short attention spans and little empathy because of an addiction to social networking websites such as Twitter, a leading neuroscientist has warned.
Baroness Greenfield quoted figures showing that more than half of 13- to 17-year-olds now spend more than 30 hours a week using video games, computers, e-readers, mobile phones and other screen-based technology. She said the human brain evolved to its surroundings and needed a “stimulating environment” to grow and properly develop. But she warned that a reliance on social networking and increased use of computer games could effectively “rewire” the brain.
via Twitter and Facebook ‘harming children’s development’ – Telegraph.
LinkedIn Confirms Password Leak
LinkedIn confirms password leak, encourages users to update passwords – Tech Talk – CBS News.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
This Graph Is Disastrous for Print and Great for Facebook—or the Opposite!
You Are Not A Computer – HBR
The Internet, and all it has come to include, is the most powerful interruption technology ever invented. It slices and dices our focus, fractures and distracts it, gives us less and less of more and more. It prompts us to skim, scan, and skip rather than immerse ourselves in any one thing.
Technology has no business setting our agenda, but it has turned into our dominatrix. Masochistically — but all too willingly — we submit to it. Emailing, texting and tweeting, searching Google, checking Facebook, and surfing websites not only consumes our time and energy, it also diminishes our capacity to pay attention to anything for very long — or to resist the next digital temptation.
via You Are Not A Computer (Try As You May) – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review.
Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How’d They Do? : Planet Money : NPR
Those ads went viral. They got twice the usual number of click-thrus, on average. The ad showed up more than 700,000 times. Basically, everyone in New Orleans on Facebook saw it. Twice. Pizza Delicious got close to twenty times the number of Facebook fans they usually get in two days. The guys were stoked.
via Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How’d They Do? : Planet Money : NPR.
I’ll cut to the chase so you don’t have to read or listen to the entire article. It didn’t work.
After a long night of asking every single customer where they found out about Pizza Delicious, not one said it was through Facebook.
Maybe at some point, the new Pizza Delicious fans will show up and buy some pizza. But social advertising is so new that nobody knows for sure. It’s still unproven, untested and largely unstudied.
Update –
I read the article first, then listened to the podcast. Listen to the podcast, it’s funnier than hell.
Life Underwriting Expert Witness Search Results on Google Alternatives
We get so focused on Google that it’s easy to forget there are alternatives to Google search. Granted, the alternatives are not nearly as popular. At 66% market share and 11.7 billion searches during the month of February 2012 alone, Google clearly is the leader. But other search engines are worth understanding — both from the perspective of when you are a searcher for information, and from the perspective of a site owner knowing that visitors may come from those other search engines.
via Google Alternatives.
I came across this article while catching up on news one Saturday morning. For fun I ran the search string “life underwriting expert witness” without quotation marks on all of the search engines listed in the article. I must admit that I was surprised at the search findings on all of the engines.
Let’s just say I’m a happy guy this morning.
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