October 2008
97 posts
Watchmy friend john-erik chatting about Conjunctured. keep an eye on this guy.
“I’m not saying Secretary Paulson is Lex Luthor. I’m just saying $700 billion is...”
– Tim Siedell (via yourmonkeycalled)
September 2008
153 posts
davidhoffman:
“The burden is on the designer of the system to meet a need, entertain, or inform their users. They also have to seduce those users, hiding complexity, revealing one layer at time, always enticing, never intimidating, until the user one day finds they are intimately familiar with power and the pleasures of the service.” Once the insight has been made, the solution is obvious. Not...
“In today’s world you are either moving forward or moving backward - stasis is...”
– Roger Ehrenberg (via betaworks) (via mikehudack)
tuneage:
Ben Folds - “You Don’t Know Me”...
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These...”
– Chuck Palahniuk : Lullaby (via yourmonkeycalled) (via ben)
“Great minds think alike. Actually, that’s a lie, but it does make you feel good....”
– Samir (via smaran)
Pandora Issues a "Call to Arms" to its Listeners →
(via azspot)
“By now, we’ve seen the pattern over and over again. The RIAA has always been...”
– Mike Masnick - The RIAA’s Playbook: No New Business Models Without RIAA Ownership (via artistspaid)
Seeing everyone in their different corners of the web chat about the debate tonight got me thinking about distributed conversations. There have been several attempts made to aggregate conversations across multiple platforms over time, but I think this misses the mark entirely. I’m not interested in what every person on every platform said — most of it’s just noise.
But every...
Watchhilarious.
Unfortunately, honesty pays minimum wage.
“China Mobile has asked Apple to remove Wi-Fi and 3G networking from the iPhone...”
– China Mobile wants ‘cut-down’ version of iPhone - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
brilliant!
(via soxiam)
“Two fresh episodes of the US hit series ‘Heroes’ were released Monday night. In...”
– ‘Heroes’ Causes BitTorrent Boom | TorrentFreak
“And so I made one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever faced: I walked away from...”
– Justin Ouellette
“In the end, Muxtape’s legality was moot. I didn’t have any money to defend...”
– Justin Ouellette on the Fate of Muxtape
“Sorry for the language, but there’s an incredible amount of frustration at...”
– VC’s Are Livid With Digg: Wanted Cash For Digg “BlackMarket”, Not “More Bongs and Beer”. | TekPopuli
“Look, we’ve done our homework. Do you know how much money crosses hands every...”
– VC’s Are Livid With Digg: Wanted Cash For Digg “BlackMarket”, Not “More Bongs and Beer”. | TekPopuli
Ten Thousand Cents →
ten thousand people work in isolation to draw a one-hundred dollar bill through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
asl
there’s an asl signer in my Milton class who sits up front to sign the lecture to a deaf girl in our class, and I can’t stop watching. it’s fascinating.
YouTube - WarioLand →
one of the cleverest web ads in a long time…
Watchartistspaid:
“What filter just broke?”
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.
nice one, clay.
“This agreement provides a flexible structure to support innovative business...”
– Mitch Bainwol, chief executive of the RIAA
Music industry groups settle some online royalty disputes (but not the big one over Internet radio)
We’re on our way, but the whole lot still smells like bullshittery.
(via davidhoffman)
(via artistspaid)
“The Wall Street financial disaster is an opportunity to create a genuine...”
– Dennis Kucinich (via chuckmore) (via soupsoup)
“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are for.”
– John A. Shedd (via scout)
personal web presence
Personal web presence, increasingly, is created and mediated by third-parties outside of individuals’ control. Many people don’t know (or care) what Google returns when you search for “their name,” but this stuff matters. Your potential employer will look at it when you apply for a job, and the admissions office will look when you apply to college.
If people...
“We tried to take advantage of Richard’s talent for clarity by getting him...”
– The Long Now Foundation - Essays
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine →
This made my day — if you have the time, read the whole thing.
“How many more new social networking or micro-blogging or video-sharing site can...”
– How Many Web Services Can One Person Use? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
The imperative is on generating increased value and creating essential and sometimes, desired utility.
(via datainsightsideas)
“Everybody has time. Stop fucking watching Lost.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk (via trystero) (via david)
watch this film. its short and the animation is... →
this was aweosme
(via molluskular)
“If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the...”
– -Richard M. Stallman
How to Monetize Facebook
datainsightsideas:
“Hey, Mark Zuckerberg, listen up: This is about how to monetize Facebook. The billion-dollar answer awaits you just below. Just hang on for about 5,000 words, and no skipping ahead, please. That’ll just ruin the suspense.”
— Your Data With Destiny - Advertising Age - Digital
a tad long, but IMO a very, very good read.
“If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would...”
– New Retierment Planning for Small Business - josh katinger’s “stuff i’d otherwise forget” (via soxiam)
“When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to blame it on the...”
– My fortune. Verizon Wireless once again shows how well they know me. (via antikris)
Dead Man's Switch →
A service that serves as a ‘dead man’s switch’ for the web — if you go dark for a certain amount of time, it sends pre-written email messages to specified addresses…kinda creepy but neat.