second brain

sentiment analysis

An excellent piece from the NY Times on the new industry forming around projects that crawl the web and look for indicators of people's mood, creating global emotion maps.

freedom and responsibility

Netflix has posted the slideshow it uses to communicate its internal values, and it's a hundred times better than most such documents, which - as this one makes you realise - seem to assume their employees and stakeholders are gullible and rather dim and deserve to be patronised.

Look out for the slides on Enron.

an argument for consistency

(Via Consumerist)