March 2009
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“For example, you can type in an equation (like “23*9/3.4+234”); press Enter to...”
– NYT.com
February 2009
36 posts
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Micah P. Hinson (11)
of Montreal (11)
Forest Fire (9)
Yo-Yo Ma (7)
Deer Tick (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“A potential unintended downside of the Kindle and other electronic reading...”
– Ideas Blog, NYT.com
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“This is how business ideas begin: You want to do something, and you run into...”
– Jessica Mah as quoted in Inc. Magazine
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WatchJason Anderson, “So Long”.
I’m a sucker for quasi love / college / call-and-response rock songs.
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“Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds—the writer is always slightly behind....”
– Excerpts from On Writing Well
Although this is about writing, it applies to all areas of life.
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“The world’s 40 largest mega-regions, which are home to some 18 percent of the...”
– Atlantic - How the Crash Will Reshape America
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“Myth #2: People care about your business. Sorry, folks - people couldn’t care...”
– inspiredstartup.com (5 startup myths)
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“Yet opportunities will emerge from the crisis. It was no accident that John...”
– FT.com
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“Gartner estimates that the portion of broadband users subscribing to a 25-Mbps...”
– multichannel.com
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The cost of free
Over the past few years there has been much hype over goods and services going digital and thus being offered for free as they “cost” (essentially) nothing to produce.
In one sense this is true: music, movies, messaging, etc. are all going digital and thus getting cheaper and cheaper and in some cases becoming “free”. This was argued most prominently in Wired by Chris...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-15) →
Jason Anderson (8)
Andrew Bird (8)
Micah P. Hinson (8)
Cat Power (6)
Ben Kweller (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Today, “it’s not about how much money you have,” Sakurai said. “It’s about...”
– A Japanese consumer speaking about why they are buying less luxury brands as of late in The Atlantic.
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“There will be 500 million mobile TV viewers by 2013 and the mobile TV market...”
– NewTeeVee
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-8) →
Music for Babies (31)
Jason Anderson (11)
Micah P. Hinson (7)
Ben Kweller (7)
Virunga (5)
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WatchStephen Colbert interview of Jonah Lehrer, the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. They discuss his new book (how we decide), which is all about how the rational and emotional parts of our brain interact.
He mentions metacognition, which (in his words) is thinking about thinking and can be a way for us to get better at making decisions. I love it. Maybe there is a chance...
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“Consider that the average American household consists of 2.7 persons and...”
– NYT.com
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“The #1 habit successful people share with me is this: They read books to learn....”
– Seth’s Blog
As Seth points out in his post, it’s not about books per se, but about being curious or “interested” in the world and having a desire to grow.
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WatchPixar talk delivered to educators about the skills they think makes someone successful.
Key points:
It’s about: Depth, Breadth, Communication and Collaboration.
Key Quotes:
“The core skill of an innovator is error recovery not failure avoidance.” “We want someone who is more interested than they are interesting.”
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Email & Micro-blogging Convergence
I was just attempting to embed a video in an email (tried both Y! mail and Outlook), but couldn’t figure it out. Why isn’t this functionality readily available? And why not treat email more like micro-blogging?
I think email could learn something from blogging sites like tumblr that make it dead simple to post text, photos, quotes, links, audio, and video. It’s all a form of...
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“He began, he says, with the idea that the site should “not look like Tokyo at...”
– Economist.com
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“The Random Generators These are the people who generate ideas at a mile a...”
– The Quantum Pontiff on the different facets of genius
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“Being on Facebook is like volunteering to receive spam, and the more successful...”
– Newsweek
I’m just speculating here, but perhaps facebook feels like spam when you stop connecting with friends and instead connect with anyone. Receiving random messages from people you don’t know = spam. Receiving random messages from people you know = not spam.
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Link: Alice.com →
The company’s offer will focus on non-food related household essentials with a business model that is inspired by two key themes: 1) consumers lack a convenient, cost effective way to buy household essentials online today; and, 2) consumer packaged goods companies need a fresh alternative to the big brand, bricks and mortar retailer model that is supported by traditional mass...
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“If Phelps needs to smoke dope, what do the rest of us need to get through the...”
– quote via Philip Greenspun
Y! News story on Phelps smoking pot.
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“Once per day, get up and walk over to the desk of someone you haven’t...”
– blog.harvardbusiness.org
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“While most of the discussions around a Facebook sentiment engine have referenced...”
– NYT.com
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“Carrotmob is a network of consumers who buy products in order to reward...”
– http://www.carrotmob.org/
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WatchHere’s the trailer for this years Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner.
It’s a film by Ondi Timoner about the possible effects of the Internet and the way in which we are living our lives in public, as seen through the life of Josh Harris.
Makes me wonder when we will start seeing people disconnect from the Internet in a (over) reaction to concerns about losing our privacy.
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“In an attempt to finally monetise the social networking site, once valued at...”
– Telegraph
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-1) →
Cat Power (6)
Phosphorescent (5)
Fleet Foxes (4)
Fionn Regan (4)
Micah P. Hinson (4)
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