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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2009/01/things-to-do-in-lebanon.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-7408985418424183154</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-29T10:58:33.104-05:00</atom:updated><title>Pascal's Wager</title><atom:summary>I have always been deeply interested in social organization, including global religions. It is not my intention to make political or religious statements on this blog, but I was reminded of Pascal's Wager over the holidays, and I thought I would share it here. This brought back fond memories of Sociology 101!Blaise Pascal was of course a 17th century French mathematician, scientist, and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/QS1raNYB2Bg/pascals-wager.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8whKgGvqPf4/SVjppMD_23I/AAAAAAAAA_8/jQugXFagIL8/s72-c/pascals_wager.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/12/pascals-wager.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-2687653518578670062</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-29T10:07:33.540-05:00</atom:updated><title>On Risk, Innovation, and Governance</title><atom:summary>It's the end of the year, and time for reflection and looking forward to another great year ahead. My big decision last year was leaving a six-year stint with IBM Software Group to co-found Fadow. This was certainly an adjustment, and I'm thrilled to be back in the turbulent world of tech startups! I also came very close to re-starting the PhD process that I had put on hold several years ago, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/Q8DsbsvT0v8/on-risk-innovation-and-governance.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/12/on-risk-innovation-and-governance.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-1057372925063943935</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-12T14:33:35.423-05:00</atom:updated><title>My part in "Analytics on the Edge" at eMetrics 2009</title><atom:summary>I am excited to have been invited to present at the eMetrics 2009 Marketing Optimization Summit, as part of the "Analytics on the Edge" track (scheduling is still to be determined, but tentatively set for April 1, 2009). My presentation is titled "Analytics in the Physical World", and this is the abstract that I have in mind:We have reached a state of maturity with web analytics, able to monitor </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/G-OWEJg9HZQ/my-part-in-analytics-on-edge-at.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8whKgGvqPf4/SUK75bAO6FI/AAAAAAAAA_0/hxx_bnfm5JI/s72-c/hmsto.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-part-in-analytics-on-edge-at.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-8423769557300530997</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-09T08:14:32.734-05:00</atom:updated><title>The economic value of culture in Canada</title><atom:summary>Last night, I attended the opening session of "Making the possible profitable: Two lectures about valuing culture" at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). The main event was a talk by Michael Bloom from the Conference Board of Canada, wherein he presented key findings from a report on "Valuing Culture: Measuring and Understanding Canada's Creative Economy" released earlier this </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/-M6PKJwdfBM/economic-value-of-culture-in-canada.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8whKgGvqPf4/ST5tBqd5xwI/AAAAAAAAA_M/KRRyOh-q2LQ/s72-c/ocad.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/12/short-list-of-innovative-e-commerce.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-1493077784983243508</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-04T08:58:38.660-05:00</atom:updated><title>Ray Simonson and Bluegill - Entrepreneurship 101 Lives Lived Series</title><atom:summary>Inspiring talk by Ray Simonson at the MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 series tonight; part of the "Lives Lived" series. Ray walked us through the process of turning Bluegill from concept to a $250M multinational company. It helped that this happened during the tech boom, and it's all too easy to focus on the outcome -- but Ray gave us the full scoop, including not only the brilliant outcome but also </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/XZ6q91IiRA0/ray-simonson-parallels-are-uncanny.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8whKgGvqPf4/STctebejlDI/AAAAAAAAA-8/2DK5RZ4dFm4/s72-c/Ray_Simonson.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/12/alan-kay-at-uoft.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-4362159522040470131</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-02T17:42:59.529-05:00</atom:updated><title>Rahaf Harfoush on Obama 2.0</title><atom:summary>Rahaf Harfoush gave a great presentation last week at Rotman, discussing her role on the social media side of Obama's 2008 election campaign. The slides from her presentation are below, and the video of her presentation is available from Rotman.Yes We Did: Strategic Insights from the campaign that redefined modern politicsThe Obama campaign can clearly be seen as a landmark case for the value of </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/YG5rr6WkSu4/rahaf-harfoush-on-obama-20.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/12/rahaf-harfoush-on-obama-20.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-8381515661451841060</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-29T10:41:23.261-05:00</atom:updated><title>Impact of social media on the newspaper industry</title><atom:summary>One of my students asked yesterday about my thoughts on the future of the newspaper business. I pointed to some trends, but generally was not satisfied with my answer. I've given it some more thought, and wanted to share my results.Firstly, there are two trends that we need to understand before answering the question: ubiquity of information and democratization of content creation. The ubiquity </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/wRX8YO509fk/impact-of-social-media-on-newspaper.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/11/impact-of-social-media-on-newspaper.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-7791167048605189385</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-29T09:06:15.110-05:00</atom:updated><title>Technological optimism vs pessimism</title><atom:summary>I wrote this essay more than 10 years ago, in January of 1997. I came across it again recently, and just for fun thought I would post it here. I've always been very interested in the social implications of technology, and in particular in dead reckoning based on progress to date. In the grand scheme of things, very little has changed over the last ten years, and the debate over the merits and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/1DniZ0hfo7Y/technological-optimism-vs-pessimism.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8whKgGvqPf4/STFCWz7JjuI/AAAAAAAAA-k/NZw5ABCkznc/s72-c/Machine_Stops.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/11/technological-optimism-vs-pessimism.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-5616747958999739769</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-27T22:03:35.216-05:00</atom:updated><title>The Maverick Paradox</title><atom:summary>I just finished reading Guy Kawasaki's book "Reality Check". Overall, a very interesting read - essentially a compendium of his great blog posts. Guy's overarching message is that no amount of MBA and marketing fluff can cover up a crappy product. Start from the standpoint that you want to deliver a product or service so compelling that it will change the world, and find employees and evangelists</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/T8Egr-wkF1E/maverick-paradox.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/11/maverick-paradox.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-1035234148987819576</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-23T16:20:05.045-05:00</atom:updated><title>You have to run before you can walk</title><atom:summary>I "raced" in the 2008 Ontario Cyclocross Championships today. My tweet this morning on the subject that I was setting myself for "a world of suffering"; how true. This was the provincial championships, and due to my age I was racing in the "Elite Men" category, against a roster of incredibly talented guys that included past National champions. Unfortunately, I wasn't quite up to par, having been </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/tkohdh-MJsI/you-have-to-run-before-you-can-walk.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8whKgGvqPf4/SSnIcdlG-UI/AAAAAAAAA-U/GN70SdP0PdE/s72-c/whatiscross.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/11/you-have-to-run-before-you-can-walk.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-8048682850524116094</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-22T12:52:10.435-05:00</atom:updated><title>The age of remix</title><atom:summary>What do you get when you mix the US Navy and Star Wars Kid? This entertaining little feature about a light saber battle aboard the USS Shiloh. The real story here is not about the mildly entertaining video, but the reality that derivative works like this are illegal. Yep, like most of what you see on Youtube, by the letter of the law these sailors are criminals. Does this make sense? The debate </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/vw4Pqwpdxh4/age-of-remix.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/11/age-of-remix.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-7552949423324835534</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-20T07:41:42.996-05:00</atom:updated><title>Lives Lived: Entrepreneurship 101 at MaRS</title><atom:summary>This week, the Entrepreneurship 101 seminar at MaRS featured David Neale, Business Development Senior VP at Telus. The focus today was on "Lives Lived", and David the perfect example of someone putting themselves in the right place at the right time, to adapt to changing industries.David has spent most of his career in business development for Canadian telecommunications carriers. He gets a lot </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/lClYg3afH4o/lives-lived-entrepreneurship-101-at.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://rmlog.blogspot.com/2008/11/viridian-green.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32795161.post-1319123533194606588</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T13:38:00.765-05:00</atom:updated><title>My day at StartupEmpire, Nov 2008</title><atom:summary>Last week was the first of what I hope becomes a regular event in Toronto, StartupEmpire -- a school for startups. There are so many great posts about StartupEmpire that I don't want to duplicate everything here. Instead, I will simply share my top-10 from the event:10. Inexpensive condensed one-day format (important -- we're operating on a Ramen noodle budget)9. Very cool location, This is </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogger/rmlog/~3/LE6cHuuYnYQ/my-day-at-startupempire-nov-2008.html</link><author>ross.mckegney@gmail.com (Ross McKegney)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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