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POPSRight Direction or Wrong Track Voters strongly prefer a presidential candidate with both government and private sector experience. They also like a candidate who thinks like they do over one who can more surely win. President Obama currently leads Donald Trump by 15 percentage points in a hypothetical 2012 match-up, but the president is unable to top the 50% level of support even against an opponent some are deriding as a joke. President Obama’s new deficit-reduction plan doesn’t even try to project a time when the federal budget will be balanced. Congressman Paul Ryan’s Republican alternative puts a balanced budget at least 25 years away. No wonder most voters don’t foresee a day in their own lifetimes when the budget will be balanced again. Unemployment claims jumped last week, signaling continued weakness in the nation's economy, so it's no surprise that voters continue to rate the economy as the most important issue they vote on.
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POPSThe Budget Battle's Silver Lining
But wait; he already did that, as I mentioned, with his 10-year budget, which consisted of bankrupting trillion-dollar-a-year deficits as far as the eye could see -- all while telling us he would not be adding a single penny to the national debt. The fact that he's presenting a new plan already proves he wasn't serious about the first one. It also further demonstrates that he and his party know they have deep credibility problems on fiscal issues. In Monday's Rasmussen tracking poll, Obama's presidential approval index was minus 20 percent. So Republicans had better be prepared to take the gloves off and point out just how unserious Obama is and how ineffective his plan would be. They will shoot themselves in the foot if they continue to treat Obama as if he were approaching this problem in good faith and in pursuit of some kumbaya compromise. Obama's plan will not be serious in its approach to entitlement reform; it will be more smoke and mirrors on top of what . . .
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POPSBob San Sushi in Chicago - Negative Review Last night I had an unfortunate run in with the manager at Bob San. First, let me preface this story by saying my wife and I have dined there multiple times, and enjoy sushi probably once a week. However, we will not be going back.
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POPSCo-Creation and Online Community: D*I*Y Planner and Levenger "For companies interested in co-creation like this, the most important step is participation. Speak with communities as a genuine, authentic person interested in learning and collaboration. Earn trust by giving more than you receive. Prototype alongside your customers, and share your failures as frequently as your successes. Be remarkable."
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POPSLong Now: Avatar Afterlife Incredibly inspiring forecast of the potential to commune with digital ghosts. - persistent existence less consciousness Jones - "Creating a copy of online behavior and programming an avatar to respond to stimuli in the way the user has been during their digital life is not suggesting consciousness, merely sophisticated replication. This scenario has some intriguing consequences. Amongst them are the possibilities an individual could leave money to their avatar rather than their children in order to support their avatar afterlife, or that future generations would have access to a representation of their ancestors – but would having access to the temporal wisdom of our forebears be of any use? A digital representation of life could continue unhindered in a virtual environment, after real-life has ended."
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POPSa visualization of pervasive narrative development in a social web of influencers and connectors Each node is a thread. Each connection is a link. The ability to influence the silent audience becomes easier to understand when the interface is modified to display the "social web." This is the value of converting brand 'talkers'/evangelists into better teachers through collaborative ideation and seeding indigenous collaborative web technologies for mass distribution of consumer generated marketing.
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POPSCirca Notebook Review: The San Diego Transcript Phil Baker of the San Diego Transcript reviews Levenger's Circa Notebook as a low-tech counterpart to a high-tech environment. The mass of prosumer DIY forms and templates online has transformed the disc-bound notebook line into an "open system."
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POPSRyan Rasmussen - "An Interview with an Innovator" [Stephen Smith - HDBizBlog] Stephen Smith, of the HDBizBlog, interviews Ryan Rasmussen, emergent media specialist at Levenger. "Weave inspiring narratives throughout the net that will compel future customers to fall in love with your own unique customer experience. Through persistent, genuine interaction, passionate customers convert from 'talkers' into 'teachers,' "
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