wanderingstan

Doing some random searches on Lijit’s newest celebrity blogger this morning I ran across some great posts from Kathy Sierra. (Recently in the news for death-threat entanglements with Boulder’s own Chris Locke) I’m always a sucker for good graphs, and these are gems.

From Is Twitter TOO good?

My takeaways from her post: She references an amzing number of studies in here post. It’s amazing/good to see how much neuroscience and psychology are influencing our understanding of the web. And this is exactly what we need to embrace in order to solve the information overload problem she is worried about (”we’re all screwed!”). It’s the Digital Cortex again.

The next chart ties into where Lijit is headed in the next months–Finding experts.

From How to be an expert

Again, I’m impressed by her reference to neuroscience. And the bottom line message hits home: Expertise is more a matter of focus than of “natural talent”.

You could rely on the so-called experts to make smart decisions for you. But experts often disagree with each other. That leaves you to pick the best expert, and that’s something you probably aren’t an expert at doing.

This post by Dilbert creator Scott Adams is fantastic. Not only is it fantastic, but it exactly reflects the way we’ve been thinking here at Lijit.

Who are the experts?
What makes someone an expert?
How can you find them?
How can you use their expertise?