Word of Mouth Marketing is a number of things. It’s the customer reviews on Amazon. It’s me writing about my new web browser, Flock. Sometimes it’s the spam in your e-mail Inbox.

I was tweeting back and forth last evening with someone about the value of such a campaign, the value that people are adding, and the value of their labor in doing so.

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Check out my graphs at Losses in Iraq. Updated through May 2008.

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Here are a series of graphs, up to date through the end of January, illustrating the deaths inflicted on Anti Iraqi Forces, AIF, terrorists and al Qaeda. Some of the grpahs compare the losses suffered by our forces in the same time period. In addition, our losses are restricted to those considered hostile, and the [...]

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Though the week ending February 9, 2008, we have had five consecutive weeks with the national influenza rate above epidemic levels.

CDC Influenza

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The multi-cultural nature of the United States has once again been revealed by the outbreak of serious disease in an immigrant population. The good thing is that these diseases are treatable and curable. The bad thing is that this is a population that will tend to be non-compliant with treatment.
In 1986, a compact was created [...]

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The Democrat & Chronicle examines the aging of our educators in the Rochester, N.Y. / Monroe County region. The article also looks at the aging issue in higher education, though here I would expect the problem to be less since it is not uncommon for college professors to teach well into their seventies while nearly [...]

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This chart represents data from March 19, 2003 to December 8, 2007. DoD link [PDF file]
Losses to non-hostile causes account for 18.6% of the deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom, OIF. The accident category would include motor vehicle accidents, and aircraft crashes that are not due to combat. Of the 718 losses in this data, 34 [...]

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