by david allan van nostrand | Jul 31, 2023 | Human Behavior, The world around us
The sandwich story most of us know involves the time John Montagu, Lord of the Admiralty, was hungry but too busy to stop what he was doing to sit down for a meal. He sent a servant for a piece of meat to gnaw on and asked that it be put between two slices of bread so...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 24, 2023 | Case Study, Strategy, Using Information
How to Make Online Purchases You Won’t Regret How do product review sites make money? Links. When you click on a link to a product in a review, you will be taken directly to a product page on a retailer’s website. No one is surprised to learn that the retailer...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 17, 2023 | Case Study, Technology, The world around us
Cavemen sharpened the points of wooden poles and used them to kill game and fight their enemies. When pointed steel tips were added to the business end of these long poles, spears became lances. When lances were adopted by cavalrymen (and yes, they were men) on...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 10, 2023 | InterWeb, Items in the News, Misinformation traps, Using Information
An article by Gabriel Daros in Rest of World discusses a recent trend in product reviews in Brazil. For as little as $4 each, freelancers create scripted product review videos. The videos are in Portuguese, one minute long, and appear to be real customers reviewing...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 3, 2023 | Case Study, Human Behavior, The world around us, Using Information
In 2016, I converted the more than 1,000 slides I had built for my classroom lectures at the University of the West Indies into articles that I posted on a new site, LetsTakeACloserLook.com. The subject of most of those early articles was an amalgam of what I call the...
