Shonzilla, a pattern-seeking animal

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Sat May 9

This video explains it nicely why you should keep be on the watch out for media hype. It comes from my favorite statistician Hans Rosling who caught my attention with his presentation TED 2007 and TV commentator presentation style. :-)

You’ll never ever miss an argument in a discussion about media hype once you remember the distressing statistic that (at the moment) the news/death ratio for swine flu is 8176 while for tuberculosis it’s just 0.1.

Have in mind that every time you discuss the current disease-popular-in-media, you’re not helping human lives are saved at all (on the contrary) since there are many more affected and taken by other long-standing diseases. That’s worth thinking about… should you ignore the reality and be just another media funnel?

[via Gapcast]

Thu Feb 28

Meet the masters of hype, Apple Inc.

This is how it should be done. This is how hype should be created. This is how you get faithful followers.

First, it (called SDK) was announced by Steve Jobs for February 2008. Ever since, it has been widely and wildly anticipated by religious hordes of Appleists.

Usually, Feburary has 29 days in a leap year. Year 2008 will be special because it will have 35 days because of the “Apple event confirmed for March 6th for the “iPhone software roadmap”. [via Engadget]

iPhone software roadmap

I can see fingerprints of Steve’s RDF (reality distortion field for the unitiated) all over this. Why call SDK n SDK when it can be a step in a “software roadmap” which I guess will be presented as a wonderful long-term opportunity for the Appleists to continue their habit, no addiction. What addiction? Apple products addiction and, now - finally, addiction to product derivatives or 3rd party products.

Dealers rejoice! :-)

I am happy because this increases competition in the mobile software market where I see a lot of fun coming in 2008.