This Week's Reading: House of Cards + Big Data, Country Club Republicans, and a 94 Year Old Reporter
From my Instapaper like feed this week:
New York Times: Giving Viewers What They Want
Source of Friction: Passwords
Nat Ward has a helpful post on combatting web page friction, the stuff that causes people to click away before converting.
Mugabe and the White African
Reading stories like this is difficult. Here is a man systematically discriminated against by powerful forces in his country. He fights back within the boundaries of law...
Why Does the New York Times hate North Dakota?
In 1995 it was slowly shrinking, especially in rural areas. The New York Times argued in favor of Reopening the Frontier.
Wouldn't you want to go to a meeting...
... where these rules were enforced?
Nice ad placement
This is what happens when you buy all available inventory for your narrowly targeted ad:
I made a YouTube video with my GoPro
Lessons from Good to Great: Ask a Rigorous Set of Questions
I finally read Jim Collins' Good to Great a few months ago. And now I'm finally posting it to this blog (lame).