Greetings once again from my precious getaway cabin nestled at the edge of the Continental Divide. I needed an altitude adjustment, and 9300 feet above sea level works just fine.
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After a solid night’s sleep here I awoke with a couple of stunning insights. The first is an important announcement: I’m going to undertake a major career change. The second are thoughts on a theme that I’ve been grumbling about for a while – how much can statistics and quantitative studies really tell you about whether and how various approaches to communication work?
More in the show notes…
NOTE: With regard to my impending career change, please check the date of this posting.
Other stuff referenced in this show:
- My article from Mar. 31: Direct Source Links in Online News: Whether, Where, and How? The comments to that article feature an intriguing conversation between myself and my colleague Terry Steichen.
- Who’s Terry Steichen? Well, he just cleared that up for me by e-mail: “I’m an independent software product developer focusing exclusively on the online news industry. I will shortly be launching NewsInContext, a site that will showcase these products’ capabilities. Using a patent-pending categorization technology, these products convert articles from ordinary news reports into enhanced news products, slicing the news into hundreds of topic-specific specialized new channels, and cross-referencing current news articles to these channels so as to provide viewers with instant background.” Way cool!
- My Feb. 14 article where I started grumbling on this theme: Regarding the Quest for Communication Statistics. Don’t miss the comments there either, especially the one from Judy Murdoch.
- To my surprise and delight, on Feb. 15 Anu Gupta expanded on this theme in his weblog Scale/Free: Research and Stats - practically useless? I left a comment on his blog, and then…
- …I continued that line of exploration in this Feb. 15 CONTENTIOUS posting: Quantitative Woes, Continued (Today’s Comment). Anu and I continued our conversation in the comments there, and we proposed a “Balanced Scorecard” approach. (Reminder to self: I really need to follow up with Anu on this.)
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