January 2009
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How to make Washington cool - followup
Recently (see my previous blog post) I was interviewed by a journalist from the Washington Post about how cool Washington is. Her conclusion was that DC is not cool. This led to a backlash of negative reactions - I got my share of it also, see the post here and the comments on the original story. I would like to point out there are very cool places in Washingon. There is for example the hotel I...
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How to make things and places “cool”?
Yesterday the Washington Post published a timely opinion piece on “how to make D.C. cool”, pondering the question whether Washington D.C. could ever be cool. The journalist had interviewed me for this article, and the discussion with her got me thinking about what it takes to make a place “cool”. Why is it that NYC, SF, or Boston are cool, while D.C, a popular tourist destination, seems in dire...
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Who will be the next "Stadtpraesident" (mayor) of...
There is a hot race currently between the two ladies Kathrin Martelli and Corinne Mauch for the succession of the popular mayor of Zurich, Elmar Ledergerber, who stepped back recently. I was curious to see what Web and Blog have to say about the chances of the two candidates. Here is the Coolhunting result of Condor for today on the Blog (Jan 8th, 2009) - Corinne Mauch leads with 53% Repeating...
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Analyzing film scripts with condor
While participating this winter in a seminar on Social Network Analysis and COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks) by Peter Gloor and Kai Fischbach at the University of Cologne, it occurred to me that a film script provides a great source for Social Network Analysis. Each character in a movie receives and sends messages through dialogues with other characters. These are represented as edges in...
