Why does having a blog mean feeling perpetually behind? (Not just in having something to say, but in finding time to type it in, press POST, sending the bits over the 802.11, out the 10Base-T, through the router, down the T1, over the leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall... nothing but Net?)
Has it really been a fortnight since my last confession?
Who could have foreseen that on Google, Googlecalifragilisticexpialidocious has less hits than Yahoocalifragilisticexpialidocious [359 vs. 532], whereas on Yahoo, Yahoocalifragilisticexpialidocious has less hits than Googlecalifragilisticexpialidocious [47 vs. 110]? Which begs the question, which would win in a kitten fight? Or would it be a draw?
(While I'm on the subject, why does Yahoolicious yield zero search results while Googlicious yields 948 search results?)
Why is my new year's resolution to say No more often?
Don't I say No enough?
Why didn't I realize how awesome John Battelle looks and sounds on television? Why didn't 60 Minutes forget the Google angle and just focus on John?
Why didn't I discover Malcolm Gladwell's article on Group Think until now? Why am I thinking about his new book Blink so much?
If I knew I only had a year to live, what would I do with 2005? If I knew I had only 6 months to live, what would I do? 3 months? A month? A week? A day?
Will everything I say from now on be phrased as a question?
No.
There's a streaming video of the 2004 New Yorker Festival: Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking available on C-SPAN's BookTV site to tide you over until the book arrives. IT Conversations caught his talk on Human Nature at PopTech in October that's also worth a listen. In addition two books by Gary Klein (Klein Associates)
- Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
- Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What You Do
are based on solid "naturalistic decision making" research and offer a model for decision making that's extremely useful. Klien is also quoted in a recent Science News article Reworking Intuition and a September 2000 Fast Company article "What's Your Intuition" that outlines his researc methods and his concept of the "pre-mortem."Posted by: Sean Murphy | January 06, 2005 at 01:54 PM
Theories:
-califragilistic doesn't bind especially well (or poorly) with either Yahoo- or Google-. Yahoo- has been around longer, but Google has been more on people's minds recently, so it's plausible there are more Yahoo- incidents overall, but more Google- incidents recently. If Yahoo's relatively newer full-web indexing effort is as yet shallower and more biased towards 'recent' content, it could explain that discrepancy.
-licious binds better with Googl- because there's already an 'l', and even a "gell" sound rhyming with "dell", so it's a construction more likely to be at the tip of people's typing fingers.
Posted by: random | January 10, 2005 at 12:42 PM
Hmmm... since your post hits on Googlecalifragilisticexpialidocious have dropped on Google, but more than doubled on Yahoo.
Posted by: swimdad | February 10, 2005 at 01:08 PM