If the school can't get to the museum

you can now bring the museum to the school with the Google Art Project.  Even if the school does have access to some art museums, the project gives them an expanded view with examples of art from around the globe, but no works by Picasso  -- see more on that in the comments.

Analytics and the job search

My latest post on analytics , How Analytics Can Help You Find That Dream Job, looks at a job site that uses algorithms to come up with compatible matches between employer and employee.

Technology and education blogs

I wrote about Coursera's innovation in the online education and the possibilities of automated readers for writing assessment

Farmers milk analytics for optimum breeding

They've been doing it since the middle of the last century, but now they have the high tech advantage for greater precision. Read about it here: Got Milk? Then You've Got the Product of Analytics

A couple of literary devices

A question of literary devices was raised by kid prepping for the English Regents. Looking for a comprehensive list, I found http://literary-devices.com. I like the contrasting terms: polysyndeton and asyndeton. The former is the term for adding in conjunction even where they usually would be absent, like "Tom and Dick and Harry," if you want to stress each one separately rather than presenting them as a collective unit. Asyndeton refers to dropping the conjunction for greater impact as in the expression, "Reduce, reuse, recycle." That could also account for the memorable quality of "We came, we saw, we conquered."  

Beautiful marketing

"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw." Havelock Ellis's statement fits Dove's "real beauty" marketing campaign, which you can read about in my latest CMOsite post.

Do you picture a robot as your audience?

Writing for Robot Readers: assessing automated assessment. My latest post for Internet Evolution at http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=1402&doc_id=243299&piddl_msgid=633439#msg_633439

A possible solution for the perennial parking problem.

 See my latest post for All Analytics on the combination of analytics and pricing put into effect to ease congestion caused by people in search of an available parking spot.