Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Nielsen has a nicely written overview of “The Logic of Collective Action” Mancur Olson’s classic work. Including this nice try at enumerating how to achieve solidarity around creation and maintenance of the public (or club) good. When it is made compulsory. This is the case in many trade unions, with Government taxes, and so on. When social [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Nielsen Company B.V. (Nielsen), a leading global information and media company, today announced that it will report its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009, on Thursday, November 12, 2009. Brian J. West, Nielsen’s Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call to discuss the Company’s results at 9:00 a.m. Eastern on that...
The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
As coach of the national team, Tim Nielsen's foremost priority should be in developing and implementing tactics. But an increasing responsibility of his is to try and keep as many of his players out on the field as possible.
Dlist (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Lykke-Nielsen, Marianne (2009) Persuasive design principles: means to improve the use of information organisation and search features in web site information architecture?. In Breitenstein, Mikel and Loschko, Cheryl Lin, Eds. Proceedings American Society for Information Science and Technology SIG-Classification Research 20th Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Turf Show Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
One win will do wonders for your Nielsen ratings. The St. Louis Rams victory over the Lions last week d rew a 17.8 percent market share in the STL metro, the best ratings all season for the Rams. The Rams bested some tough competition. Check this out: ...drew a higher rating than any World Series game, all Cardinals regular-season contests and is about eight times greater than an average Blues telecast....
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | yesterday
from Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News, More than two months after their contract ended, Versus and DirecTV remain at distribution loggerheads, their impasse showing no signs of subsiding. However, a pair of external factors - negotiations toward a long-term expanded distribution package with Dish Network and the potential union of Comcast with NBC Universal - could exert pressures that facilitate...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two new studies point to a growing divide in how moms and kids communicate and are influenced... First up, Nielsen/Pete Blackshaw's Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids : "In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via the speaker capability...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
25-54 demographic: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 544 | CNN: 309 | MSNBC: 166 | HLN: 155 Prime: FNC: 1147 | CNN: 596 | MSNBC: 308 | HLN: 221 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC FtHood: Baier: Shep: O'Reilly: Hannity: Greta: Greta: 801 843 1055 1485 1176 778 526 CNN Blitzer: Blitzer: Dobbs: Brown: King: Cooper: Cooper: 523 449 513 605 619 565 451 MSNBC Matthews: EdShow: Matthews: Olbermann: Maddow: Olbermann:...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
On September 15th, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook "now serves 300 million people across the world." It seems the site's growth hadn't exactly come to a stop, either, as about a month and a half later, stats indicate the number of users has risen to at least 325 million. This isn't a case of comScore versus Hitwise or Compete versus Nielsen discrepancies. Nick O'Neill reported today,...
Mediabuyerplanner (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Though total radio revenues are expected to sink 15% in 2009, a recent analysis from The Nielsen Company found that more than three-fourths (77%) of US adults are reached by broadcast radio on a...
Spotlight on Digital Media and Lear (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Plus: Behind the Scenes at Breakthrough; Nielsen Numbers on Young Mobile Phone Users; Google and Online Safety ... Check out Spotlight’s new Digital Media and Learning News Round-Up.
Nourishing Relationships (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The latest Nielsen figures indicate that children are watching more television than ever - those aged 2 to 5 are watching more than 32 hours a week while for those 6 to 11, it drops slightly, probably due to school hours, to more than 28 hours a week. That's still, on the average, more than 4 hours a day. These numbers include VCR and game console usage but not time on the computer or playing hand-held...
Writers in the Sky (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dr. Charles Toftoy joins the podcast today to discuss his new release, It's in the Eyes , with WITS author's assistant Sarah Moore. This novel focuses on the murders of young coeds in Washington, D.C. and the efforts of a group of private citizens who call themselves the Alpha Team to solve the crimes. Each member of the group brings a unique background and set of skills to the detective work and are...
elliott.org (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dale Nielsen did everything he could to confirm his Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu. He booked the trip through an online agency that offered a notification of flight schedule changes. He called his airline. It wasn't enough.
andPOP.com News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
What better way to honor the prince? “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” made motion picture history as the highest grossing concert film of all time. That’s not all. The two-disc companion to the movie released by Sony Music’s Epic Records makes its first week debut in the #1 spot on Canada’s Nielsen SoundScan Top 200 album [...]
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