An illusion that feeds inadequacy.

Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions

As the Blogosphere continues to grow, finding good quality feeds is becoming increasingly difficult. In this paper we present an analysis of the feeds subscribed by a set of publicly listed Bloglines users. Using the subscription information, we describe techniques to induce an intuitive set of topics for feeds and blogs. These topic categories, and their associated feeds, are key to a number o...

Outsourcing suppliers as downstream competitors: Biting the hand that feeds

In this paper, we highlight an aspect of supplier opportunism in the outsourcing paradox that has largely been ignored by extant research – the supplier as a direct competitor of the buyer firm. In light of this paradox, we offer a game-theoretic framework in which we identify conditions under which firms could alleviate or mitigate this outsourcing problem. Our results show that apart from tra...

Is Strategy an Illusion?

Strategy is the essential ingredient for making war either politically effective or morally tenable. It is the link between military means and political ends, the scheme for how to make one produce the other. Without strategy, there is no rationale for how force will achieve purposes worth the price in blood and treasure. Without strategy, power is a loose cannon and war is mindless. Mindless k...

Only an Illusion

An illusion of ingestion.

A pilot project in our laboratory recently revealed that subjects, when asked to ingest an amount of liquid comparable to that displayed in a transparent container, consistently ingested more than the displayed amount. The discovery that subjects are not very accurate at estimating the volume of liquid in their mouths would not be particularly interesting if the errors made by subjects were uns...