Food for Thought

This section is a repository for original works by 25-Seven team members. Our current offerings center on writings by 25-Seven Systems Director of Engineering Barry Blesser, which originally appeared in the Radio World Engineering Extra column "The Last Word". These pieces are reproduced here with the author's permission, and copyrighted by the author.

October 27, 2004 : The Psychology of Technical Quality
February 23, 2005 : The Deadly Psychology of Schedules and Deadlines
April 6, 2005 : The Universal Applicability of Negotiating
June 15, 2005 : Technology Scarcity and Surplus
August 24, 2005 : The Broadcaster’s Choice: Your Space or My Space
October 19, 2005 : The Paradoxes of Learning
December 14, 2005 : The Shifting Forces that Are Affecting the Radio Industry
February 22, 2006 : Chaos Theory: Limits of Analysis and Predictions
April 5, 2006 : The Evolving Gatekeepers of Headspace
June 14, 2006 : Ignoring Logical Reasoning is Logical
August 23, 2006 : CDs Prove Secondary Features Matter
October 18, 2006 : New Audio Villages Challenge Ballistic Radio
December 13, 2006 : Social Spatiality Belongs in Radio Broadcasting
February 21, 2007 : Educational Community for Engineers
June 13, 2007 : The Tall Tale of the Long Tail
August 22, 2007 : The Long Tail Wags Broadcasters
October 17, 2007 : Does Innovation Drive Use of Technology?
December 12, 2007 : Nothing Compares to Word-of-Mouth Buzz
February 20, 2008 : Imagination: The Real Art of Radio
April 16, 2008 : Radio Must Enfranchise Creative Talent
June 11, 2008 : What Does It Mean to Manage?

One of Dan Griscom's outside projects has been developing a seismology application called SeisMac, which changes your Apple MacBook or MacBook Pro into a three-axis seismograph. You can read the column he wrote about the developent process in a Seismology Research Letters' Electronic Seismologist column.