Archive for June, 2009

A Fresh Batch of Links for You

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

I Tweeted

Monday, June 8th, 2009
  • Need to share a rather awesome tool find: http://backtweets.com tracks links to pages by full URL, even if they've been shortened in-tweet. #

A Fresh Batch of Links for You

Monday, June 8th, 2009

I Tweeted

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
  • Had a relative share with me today that I look like an "evil imp" in the photo on my website. There's just nothing like family, is there? #

I Tweeted

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
  • The best part may well be the Shepard Fairey-meets-Pavlov's dog artwork they put to it. (http://bit.ly/obama_behavior_web) 2/2 #
  • While I'm pretty happy with how my @seedmag piece on Obama, behavior, and the web — http://bit.ly/obama_behavior_web — turned out… 1/2 #

A New Kind of Politics of Choice

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

I guess we're the dog.

Reading some of the really intriguing recent articles about the Obama world's embrace of behavioral economics (see here and here, for example), I decided to take a look at the one place where the President kinda does have full control, a space where the new administration can put to work its theories on choice architecture, nudging, and the like: the web.

Hope you'll give it a read.