Kobayashi Maru Interview Questions

11th March, 2009 - Posted by paydayperx - Comments

If you’ve seen Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, you’ve heard of the Kobayashi Maru though you might not recognize the reference. You remember the beginning, when Kirstie Alley was still hot? No, seriously, when Kirstie Alley was the captain and in the space of five minutes she’s turned the USS Enterprise into the » Read More

What if the government ran Facebook?

9th March, 2009 - Posted by paydayperx - Comments

I, for one, am already tired of hearing the endless succession of ‘experts’ engaged in tragically uninformed debate regarding the current state of the economy.But reading through some posts in an unrelated forum I frequent, I was quite frankly appalled at some of the things otherwise normal, non-fascist people seem to like to say in » Read More

Relativity

25th February, 2009 - Posted by paydayperx - Comments

It is rare, these days, for me to make the entire length of my 50 minute commute without encountering at least one full-stop-inducing traffic snarl, more often than not due to a traffic accident. In fact, taking a knee-jerk poll on the matter, 80% of these accidents occur within a span of two exits on » Read More

Why it’s already way too late for MySpace

23rd January, 2009 - Posted by paydayperx - Comments

First, the recent news which caught even me by surprise: http://tinyurl.com/dbcgbp For those of you with no interest in reading the article, a quick summary is this: at the beginning of 2008, MySpace had more unique impressions users than Facebook did. In April, they were tied. In December, Facebook had more than DOUBLE the unique impressions » Read More

Unintended Effects of the end of Pharmabling

2nd January, 2009 - Posted by paydayperx - Comments

If you pay attention to such things, you may have heard that as of yesterday, Jan 1, pharmaceutical companies are no longer going to shower doctor’s offices in free pens, clipboards, wall clocks, mousepads, coffee mugs, etc slathered with the names of their brands or products. This was a voluntary moratorium, and the muckety mucks » Read More

Keep them talking: Survey best practices

17th December, 2008 - Posted by paydayperx - Comments

First off, a huge thanks to Max Kalehoff for posting an intriguing question in his MediaPost piece, and then following it up with more discussion via his comments section. Interaction, interaction interaction is the name of the game and Max is uniquely talented not just at promoting his opinion but in promoting discussion, which is a » Read More