Jim Cahill

Hmmm... This looks very interesting. What is it? - Mike Boudreaux

I didn't know about the sort by pubdate feature. That's cool, as it'll let you combine streams elegantly. Before I was using imaginary friends on friendfeed to do this. - Aaron Crews via fftogo

"In our research, we found that people are most likely to talk about things they think they have in common with others, rather than topics or ideas that are more unusual or striking," said Nathanael J. Fast, a PhD student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Fast is one of three authors of the paper "Common Ground and Cultural Prominence: How Conversation Reinforces Culture," with Chip Heath of the Stanford Business School, and George Wu of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. "This has the effect of reinforcing—or even institutionalizing—the prominence of familiar cultural elements over ones that are perhaps more deserving." - Jim Cahill