digg.com - I was introduced to this site recently and it makes me reflect the extent to which the democratization of media content has taken place in the web2.0 space.Here' what digg does: Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

There’s a new book in the market that I came across - " The art of demotivation " Initially I thought it was a joke or a prank being played. But later realized that it was indeed a book In a nutsheel the author seems to say the following : _ Dr. Kersten addresses this issue in his revolutionary section on “Responsibility Displacement,” which discusses the sad trend of businesses failing to blame employees for their mistakes.

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“Beyond Bullets” by Cliff Atkinson offers a powerful technique to improve powerpoint presentations. The result of a long frustration experienced by author on exposure to a lot of meaningless presentations in his career led the author to pen a technique which can make any presentation interesting, stimulating. The motive behind this book is to enable the readers to inform, motivate and inspire the listeners. The book takes inspiration from Hollywood and adapts the content-to-production cycle to producing a informative powerpoint.

The history of poisson distribution is an interesting case. It was simultaneously discovered by 2 people. One was Polish Mathematician who tried to explain the incidence of deaths from horse kicks amongst the Prussian military. He did so from his university office, with out the slightest knowledge of German army training The second person who discovered was a man by name William Gausset , who went by the pen name " Student".