Do We Respond Better to a Negative Message?

As I am sitting here watching the Democratic convention, I am starting to notice a trend.  This trend centers around the reactions of the crowd to the various speakers.  The loudest cheers have not been evoked by a speaker describing why their candidate will do a great job nor what specific measures the candidate will [...]

Why I Will be Rooting for Cuil to Succeed

In case you haven’t looked at the front page of CNN.com or MSNBC.com, there is a new search engine in town. A former Google employee, Anna Patterson, has launched a search engine called Cuil (pronounced Cool) that apparently spans 120 billion websites (but they haven’t got to mine yet), three times the amount [...]