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UF has been ranked the number one party school in America by The Princeton Review. (Check out the rest of the top twenty here). I’m sure this idiot put us over the top.

This great visual from Sam Lawrence shows you everything you need to know about the state of marketing in 2008. As marketing continues to expand its relationship with conversational media we’ll need a new set of metrics to measure effectiveness. A shift from quantitative statistics to tonality and subject matter of mentions is inevitable.

NFL Average Wonderlic Scores by Position

Check this interesting graphical representation of the average NFL Wonderlic score by position. The Wonderlic test is basically the NFL’s version of the GMAT. A high Wonderlic score can improve a players draft stock and land them a large pay day just like a high GMAT score can help get you into the business school of your dreams. However, the GMAT isn’t the only factor an Adcom analyzes in your business school application and the Wonderlic isn’t the only factor an NFL team analyzes when making a draft pick. In fact, you could argue a lot of NFL teams ignore a player’s Wonderlic score. Vince Young reportedly scored a six (out of a possible fifty) on the Wonderlic in 2006 and was still drafted 3rd overall by the Tennessee Titans. The Titans obviously valued his experience and leadership ability over a simple score on a scantron. That was wise of them. Today, if the NFL held that draft again, Vince Young would be drafted first overall.

It’s interesting to note in the infographic that the faster position players, the wide receivers and defensive backs, have lower average Wonderlic scores than their teammates on the line. Perhaps brains and brawn are not mutually exclusive after all?

Source of Infographic: Ben Fry (via Richard Florida)

Source: Strange Maps (via Richard Florida)

Thanks for bringing down our BMI South Beach! I’m drinking for you tonight.

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If you have read “The World is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman then you are familiar with the ten unique events that “flattened” the world in his estimation. One of those events was the overinvestment in transcontinental fiber-optic cables that led to the commoditization of bandwidth. Due to the abundant supply of bandwidth, transmission of data has become virtually free. The above image is a graphical representation of how fiber-optic cables connect our world.

Rednecks.

If so, shoot me.