tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:22:13 +0000http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)Blogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-2774678405967041537Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:56:00 +00002011-04-11T16:04:11.866-04:00No, I"m not joking. Anyone who's anyone in the financial field has heard of the CFA designation. Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholders must undergo three incredibly difficult six-hour exams and then have four years experience in the finance field in order to obtain their title. It's worth it though. The difficulty of obtaining a charter is recognized throughout the field and http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/04/trustworthy-like-wall-street.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-8033442703285504947Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:29:00 +00002011-04-09T11:09:05.071-04:00The offices are empty. Stale air scatters dust over keyboards while vermin settle into the walls. The sign outside is for a newspaper no one has heard of in years. Out back, on the loading dock, tattered and yellowed copies are stacked awaiting a delivery that will never be made. The date is April 1st 2012. Is this a bit drastic? Maybe so, but this is the doomsday future our professor is http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/04/end-of-era.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-2877168174248379694Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:47:00 +00002011-03-29T17:00:21.230-04:00 <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 159 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/03/price-of-information.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-3022224661559696045Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:30:00 +00002011-03-18T17:35:00.829-04:00 Screen Print of the Article - Just in case they decide to change that header The New York Times has finally decided to put up a pay wall. In an oddly bold printed article with the web banner titled “New York Times to Impose Fees for Web Readers on March 28,” they lay out their plan for subscription web access to readers. Website and mobile access is $15/month and an extra $5 if you prefer http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/03/extra-extra-paper-actually-wants-to-get.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-1054521487403644614Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:28:00 +00002011-03-17T15:53:50.600-04:00  Although it's quite cinematic school should never actually feel ominous  The other night my wife and I had an unusual craving. We were just about to watch the horror movie “The Crazies,” which involved scenes of horrific violence, gore and naughty language when we were overcome with a pang for milk and cookies. My wife had just baked a couple leftover batches from the weekend and http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/03/milk-cookies-crazies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-3287210388386971190Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:11:00 +00002011-03-14T18:14:58.210-04:00This weekend University at Albany students took early morning drinking to a new level and found the blogosphere more than willing to broadcast it to the nation. Our city's annual buffoonery, also know as “Kegs and Eggs,” commenced this weekend with&nbsp;five UAlbany students arrested and&nbsp;city police almost as&nbsp;scratched and battered as one Nissan Maxima&nbsp;. My “partying” friends http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/03/ualbany-theres-egg-on-your-face.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-8392135299434636565Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:57:00 +00002011-03-11T19:57:21.425-05:00It’s hard to create an argument against a medium while using it. Clary Shirky discusses this conundrum when he describes the Abbot of Sponheim, defending scribes in a text proliferated by the printing press. “The abbot’s book praised the scribes, while its printed form damned them.” Despite this, I intend on proving my point. Take a look at this. Now, this could be a video that supports my http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/03/internet-sucks-and-i-hate-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-1190877398571711941Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:37:00 +00002011-03-08T17:39:45.472-05:00 Al Jazeera's Twitter Dashboard <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:SimSun; panose-1:2 1 6 0 3 1 1 1 1 1; mso-font-alt:宋体; mso-font-charset:134; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 135135232 16 0 262145 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/03/give-it-up-for-al-jazeera.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-3244584584271106859Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:50:00 +00002011-03-05T15:57:10.435-05:00 Another day and another job is taken over by technology or at least broadsided by it. The New York Times reports on&nbsp;new software that can outperform a lawyer, and their accompanying paralegals,&nbsp;with analyzing the mountains of documents that can come about in major court cases. Obviously, this new technology, which can make associations between the words "dog" and "man's best friend"http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/03/recess-your-honor-my-lawyer-needs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-1348743388882505786Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:59:00 +00002011-02-25T14:48:15.245-05:00The sky outside is like white noise on my windshield. My wipers strain to shove the slush to the sides of my vision while my hands attempt to maneuver my trusty Dodge Caravan through the muck all over the road. Every time some random 4x4 pickup truck wobbles past me, I hold my breath. I try to keep my bearings set on the tracks set in the snow from the FedEx van in front of me. The FedEx driver http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/02/twitter-changes-lives-and-gets-no.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-8559239225957811762Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:43:00 +00002011-02-24T10:43:16.909-05:00Facebook is a private company. It therefore should not come as a surprise when it acts like one. Facebook compiles data on its members, sells that data to advertisers and uses that information in ways to learn even more about its nation-size level of users. It does this with no qualms and no cover ups. We talked about this briefly in my class on social media. I find this New York Times tech blog http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/02/facebook-most-popular-dictatorship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-4403740253184449719Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:24:00 +00002011-02-21T14:41:46.833-05:00I started playing a game called Dragon Age: Origins. It’s got swords and goblin-like creatures and battlefields flooded by gallons of blood. It’s rather geeky. It’s also quite thought provoking. One of the features in the game is the ability to make choices and most choices in the game are not as simple as Coke or Pepsi. During my first few hours in the game, I made a choice to betray a friend http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/02/nir-rosen-moral-choices-and-bloody.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-1956734321312836196Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:57:00 +00002011-02-12T12:32:29.121-05:00Yesterday there was a revolution. It also happened to be tweeted. So, despite Malcolm Gladwell’s moving argument, he was technically wrong. Of course, at the same moment I feel like most criticism against Gladwell actually tends to further the meat of his argument. I read Dave Pell’s almost immediate response and his more recent tirade, and both tend to refer to&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;as a more http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/02/t-is-for-tahrir-twitter-and-toppling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-8429704211708576844Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:49:00 +00002011-02-11T16:52:19.484-05:00Claire Miller wrote in The New York Times Tech Blog that tactics used by The Huffington Post to increase page hits could soon be adopted across the web. Using search engine optimization or S.E.O. The Huffington Post manufactures headlines that match the current top searches of the day. As the article points out, sometimes they manufacture a news article to go along with it too. Using these http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/02/seo-new-yellow-journalism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-153201955641645862Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:01:00 +00002011-02-09T13:03:29.454-05:00 According to this article by Aemon Malone at Digital Trends social media may now have a precedent as free speech. The article is about a court case involving an employee that was fired for posting derogatory comments about her boss on her Facebook wall. Luckily, she had the National Labor Relations Board in her corner of the courtroom. The NLRB is an independent federal agency that was createdhttp://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/02/according-to-this-article-by-aemon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-6046951325577838359Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:31:00 +00002011-02-09T13:05:26.432-05:00 With a catchy lead the blogger has the reader trapped. The visitor may try to flee but the writer has authored a web of words that snare the hapless victim and allows the blogger to inject the venom of their inane subjectivity. The reader cannot flee as they are paralyzed by the lethal combination of bristled prose and gaudy video. Before long the reader is emptied of substance, a shell. With http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/02/write-and-wrong-of-blogs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778519556860906597.post-4651064008662474748Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:03:00 +00002011-02-03T13:45:49.337-05:00I read a blog post by one of our fellow students that feared it might bore the reader in 3 short paragraphs and it got me thinking. Our common perception of a social media outlet is Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. These are sites that allow their users to create and share with millions across the globe. I like to look at Twitter and shake my head. Here we have a site that has spawned an army of http://83blogsbydave.blogspot.com/2011/02/has-world-lost-its-ability-to-savor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (David Raimo)0