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Silent Movie by Richard Gatarski Psychographic text analysis is about finding linguistic signal patterns to try to determine the psychological profile of the author of a text. Today (Update: this english version cerated 13th sep) version at Sweden Social Web Camp I presented a small demo of my integral model for determining sentiment (mood), values … Read more

Log on, check in, tweet out. The gospel of the new digital always-on lifestyle is most loudly cheered by knowledge workers that make a living as (digital) communication consultants or speakers. The theoretical upsides of easy access to information, knowledge and human connections are indeed marvelous. The theoretical downsides, however, tell about mass digital attention deficit … Read more

Mellan september 2010 och mars 2011 var jag anlitad av Ängsbacka Kursgård i Värmland för att hjälpa dem ut på sociala webben. Uppdraget bedrevs som ett sex månaders halvtidsprojekt. Efter avslutat projekt var tanken att de anställda på kursgården skulle ta över förvaltningen av aktiviteterna. Här kan du läsa om vad vi gjorde och hur … Read more

This post comes from my pretty vast experience of being unbalanced and balanced, successfull and a complete failure. Sometimes at the same time. It´s a sum up of a lot of ideas and models I´ve come across based on both experience and science. Some of them both. It´s what I´ve noticed when observing the exterior … Read more

What about the cat

I had a mail conversation with a highly intelligent person this morning about modelling. “you can´t model the interior” he said. I beg to differ. The challenge and great opportunity of our age is to model the interior based on signals in the exterior, such as language, behaviour and consumption patterns. “Good science” will have … Read more

Whether you communicate professionally or personally there are four fundamental aspects to it. Any firm that claims to be full service needs to deliver on all four quadrants.     It´s very rare for the same person to be proficient at all aspects and, as a team, it´s very rare that people that are naturals … Read more

I skapande, eller med ett modernare uttryck – produktvitet. Detta ska inte förväxlas med att man skapar något för att tillfredsställa någon annans behov. Det kan även vara renodlat självuttryck. Sådana kan dock vara till nytta för någon annan indirekt – likt biets flygande mellan blommor för att äta av nektar kommer blomman till godo … Read more

Out two little heroes Bobby and Bubba Bear are venturing into another adventure of the mind. This time, some interesting research by Kurt Fischer at Harvard University sparks their little bear-neurons into new perspectives on Maslows hierarchy of needs, Spiral Dynamics, Buddha Bear and the somewhat creepy future of marketing. Somehow, Doktorspinn managed to tweet … Read more

A tweet by Bobby Bear has gotten retweeted and Bubba Bear has been wondering if there is some pattern behind what tweets get retweeted. That leads them to psychologists and text analysts such as James W Pennebaker and social media scientists such as Dan Zarella. They even mention yours truly! Trailer: Watch the full movie … Read more

Cute Bear Philosophers

When you look upon the Internet through the eyes of philosopher Ken Wilber´s integral model (AQAL) you see that the inner “psychology” of the Internet is a perspective seldom discussed. These cute bears have a discussion about it and touches upon Google AI project, Kevin Kelly´s notion of the One Machine and Ray Kurzweil´s ideas … Read more