The tally:
Google alerts: 16 Web stories or blog posts
Twitter: 35 tweets listed as one day or newer.
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Climategate, the ever-growing world response to accusations that climate thought leaders have suppressed or hidden data that rejecting the progress of glacial warming, continues to drive mentions of groupthink on the web. A Twitter search of the term "groupthink" produced 35 Tweets
containing the term, related to the following topics:
Climategate 14
Miscellaneous 11
Politics 4
Twitter 3
Other topics 4
Interesting uses of the term
Twitter itself was accused of conforming when one user, http://twitter.com/je_suis_le_vent stated:
Twitter=groupthink. its making me uncomfortable. and i feel like we arent using it for its intended purpose.
Her comment was retweeted twice.
In another interesting take, Forbes blogger Bruce Upbin using the term in a positive spin when he points out that a crowdsourced collection of Internet stock advisors have developed a sort of "actionable groupthink," regarding stock investments. Read Upbin's post here:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/10/trevis-intel-disney-intelligent-investing-forecast.html
Friday, December 11, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Groupthink Watch Dec 9, 2009
The tally-
Twitter- 39 mentions in the last 24 hours
climate editorial - 8 and possibly more
Geitner - 6 and possibly more
Heisman trophy 4 mentions
Google Alert- 8 news stories and 5 blog alerts
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The term "Groupthink" was active in the last 24 hour news cycle thanks to the Copenhagen climate meetings and the daily business of Treasury department head Timothy Geitner.
In the case of the climate conference, newspapers worldwide banded together to publish an urgent climate-change editorial. In the US, though, only the Miami Herald published the editorial, and then only with a key sentence discarded.
Secretary Geithner draws ire from the world financial and political communities for his recent remarks regarding TARP estimates. Geithner and his team are accused of groupthink in coming to hte conclusion that TARP is costing taxpayers $200 billion less than expected
Twitter- 39 mentions in the last 24 hours
climate editorial - 8 and possibly more
Geitner - 6 and possibly more
Heisman trophy 4 mentions
Google Alert- 8 news stories and 5 blog alerts
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The term "Groupthink" was active in the last 24 hour news cycle thanks to the Copenhagen climate meetings and the daily business of Treasury department head Timothy Geitner.
In the case of the climate conference, newspapers worldwide banded together to publish an urgent climate-change editorial. In the US, though, only the Miami Herald published the editorial, and then only with a key sentence discarded.
Secretary Geithner draws ire from the world financial and political communities for his recent remarks regarding TARP estimates. Geithner and his team are accused of groupthink in coming to hte conclusion that TARP is costing taxpayers $200 billion less than expected
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