Voice your Wall

Depending on what you were saying, these pictures of your voice print could make for an interesting before dinner drinks conversation.
From the Canadian company VoicePrints comes this art form of printing your voice and hanging the results on your wall.



Now is that a shout, a word or 'what were you saying?'

Original story via Thrillist.com (original link)

The All Important Revenue per User - Chart of the Day

"How much is a unique visitor worth on the Internet? Depends on who you are. Amazon (e-commerce) is generating $189 per user. Google (search) is generating $24 per user. Facebook (social networking) is only generating $4 per user according to this chart from JP Morgan's Imran Khan. "

From SAI Business Insider Chart of the Day

Here's How Much A Unique Visitor Is Worth

Queensland Floods - Who Says Financial Publications are Dull

Under the article heading 

Australian producers face huge floods bill

The Financial Times ends it's story with this photo entitled

"Emergency supplies: crates of beer are loaded on to a boat in Rockhampton, Queensland, on Tuesday "

 

News Online and The Paywall Debate - To Build or Not to Build?

Stephen Bartholomeusz, writing in the Australian Business Spectator, in an article entitled 

False iPad hope? (free sign up required to view).

This blogger finds it ironic that a writer in what is a essentially a free online publication, doing very well with it's model, needs to wonder which online model will work for traditional journalism. The following models will not work:

• The general readership, major newspaper behind a paywall a la the UK's Times online
• Specialised Magazines whereby the app costs more than the print edition a la Wired Magazine (and you can get it free on the web - how dumb is that?)
• Any combination of the above as in the proposed new Murdoch online Daily which is "...an interesting and brave experiment with a purpose-designed tablet product, with News committing an estimated $US100 million to the venture." (from the Bartholomeusz article above)

The models that do work are:

1. And one only: The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and The Economist online editions. No prizes as to why these online publications make money and actually work - the financial market participants reading them have money to burn. Very simple.

Everyone else is doomed to failure.

So get on the advert supported band wagon and stop winging about it...!

 

American Accents: All You Ever Wanted to Know and Then Some

"NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH, like its British cousin, has many diverse dialects and sub-dialects. Did you know that residents of the San Francisco Bay area generally speak differently from other Californians? Had you heard that people from parts of New Orleans sound like New Yorkers, or that residents of North Carolina's outer banks can sound more like folks from Charleston, South Carolina than other southerners? All this information and more is available on Rick Aschmann's map of English dialects in North America."

From The Economist blog Gulliver 

What Americans sound like

The article refers mainly to Rick Aschmann's rather excellant map called that has links to YouTube video examples

North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns