March 2012
141 posts
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“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress,” said Alan Dlugash, a...”
– Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons - Bloomberg
*classrageface*
February 2012
107 posts
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“In VC-speak, Jeremy Lin needed to raise another round of capital and diversify...”
– Interface: The Tech World Isn’t a Democracy of Data, and Neither Is the NBA (Wired Opinion) | Epicenter | Wired.com
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“When new technologies become popular, they don’t kill the preceding technology;...”
– The Law Of Accelerating Media, And How To Deal With It - Forbes
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TribecaFilm.com | Future of Film | The Real... →
At its heart, filmmaking is an art that mostly starts with an idea about people and how unpredictable they are as they navigate the world. In that unpredictability lies all the surprise and magic.
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“Image sharing site Pinterest, with its kind-of-crazy, wild west copyright...”
– The Genius of Pinterest’s Copyright Dodge - Technology Review
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“The only slightly convincing pro-cash argument concerns paper money’s power to...”
– David Wolman’s The End of Money, reviewed. - Slate Magazine
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“Whenever there is a hot story in the news, there is an opportunity to create and...”
– Web Ink Now: Newsjacking via a real time Kindle book
From the 24-hour news cycle to the 72-hour book cycle…
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“most objects in the physical world are not protected by an intellectual property...”
– 3-D printing, copyright, and intellectual property. - Slate Magazine
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“90 percent of successful startups start out with the wrong strategy and often...”
– The newsonomics of hyperlocal’s next round: Patch, Digital First, and more » Nieman Journalism Lab
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“I’m too busy to invent activities to do with people I no longer have much...”
– 35 | The Reformed Broker
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“programming is both incredibly simple and impossibly hard, like so many...”
– Red Sweater Blog – Learn To Code
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“Laypeople don’t actually want data, they want easy ability to extract knowledge...”
– Monetizing News Apps | Entrepreneurial Journalism
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“New York increasingly makes sense as a headquarters for certain start-ups,...”
– Startups pass on Silicon Valley to find their fortunes in New York — Tech News and Analysis
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“the keys to succes for a fashion tech startup are the intuitiveness of the...”
– Fashion Tech Boom: Why It’s Happening and How Startups Get Funded – Fashionista: Fashion Industry News, Designers, Runway Shows, Style Advice
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“Strivers are restless overachievers who walk up escalators. Their habitats...”
– Are you a striver, slacker or fantasist? - FT.com
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“It may be the defining London sight: people walking up escalators at Tube...”
– Are you a striver, slacker or fantasist? - FT.com
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“The public, remember, has a “right” to be informed. Regulation that gets in the...”
– Leveson inquiry needs a lesson in press regulation history | Media | The Observer
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“quick and dirty advertising tactics are both the easiest way to make money and...”
– Gamasutra: Tyler York’s Blog - The Principles of Game Monetization
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“The notion that every person is famous to his or her “friends” would effectively...”
– Famous for Fifteen People - Stanford Law Review
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“The plaintiffs’ assertion that they were famous to their friends raises...”
– Famous for Fifteen People - Stanford Law Review
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“while many of us are addicted to celebrity gossip and war games, we don’t want...”
– Digg Data Reveals What We Read But Are Too Scared or Embarrassed To Share
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“There was no prestige or social value associated with staying up all night.”
– BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep
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“Wilders sells xenophobia. His main product line, Muslim-bashing, is going out of...”
– Meet Europe’s new scapegoats - FT.com
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“the stream says ‘Here’s what’s new’ across all topics; the ‘layout’ says ‘Here’s...”
– FAQ: The stream as an interface; starting out in data journalism | Online Journalism Blog
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“Consider the hackathon to be the Haiku of programming. Instead of 17 syllables...”
– Hackathons are not nonsense
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“while news orgs are concerned with goals that amount to “pageviews, praise and...”
– Monetizing News Apps | Entrepreneurial Journalism
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“News startups do need a runway of at least several years to stabilize and...”
– A few lessons for foundations as the Chicago News Coop hits the pause button | Knight Digital Media Center
What, can’t go from zero to profitable in less than 12 months? Insanity.
[sarcasm, bitterness, etc]
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“Beyond the ABO blood type and the Rhesus (Rh) blood type, the International...”
– Blood mystery solved: Two new blood types identified
Woah, woah.
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“someone could argue that Twitter isn’t just an electronic information service,...”
– Is Twitter a newspaper, or is it the phone company? — Tech News and Analysis
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“That is how you find if the idea is already taken – by checking if the...”
– Is your start-up idea already taken? at Whittle Idea
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“Instead of beta testing a product, we beta tested an idea and integrated the...”
– In Defense Of The Not-So-Lean Startup | Fast Company
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“The Fourth Estate is actively writing the b-school case for how an industry can...”
– Despite Reports of Demise, Press Is Case Study in Evolution | Steve Rubel - Advertising Age
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“The key takeaways from this approach are: Design, development and product...”
– We Love Lean | Lean UX, Lean Startup - Curated by Spook Studio – a lean UK design & technology studio by the sea that creates innovative digital products. Clickety click www.spookstudio.com
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“The coding of the frontend is one matter. The backend is another. Linking the...”
– .: sermad :. » Blog Archive » Learning to program isn’t the hard part
I always buy the domain first. Result: I have many, many domains.
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“This compulsion to weigh in on a news event, even one with only a tangential...”
– Facebook and Twitter Posts on Whitney Houston Overran Sites Early On - NYTimes.com
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“The more social Facebook tries to be, the less intimate our interactions on it...”
– Facebook’s Timeline: A catalog of nothing | MediaFile | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com
This piece is fantastic. Want to quote everything. Read it.
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“the sum total of lives preserved by social media is not just mundane but...”
– Facebook’s Timeline: A catalog of nothing | MediaFile | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com
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“using ad blockers is a conscious decision to exclude participation from the...”
– Forget the news: The visceral reaction to adverts | Denise Cheng « Dennetmint
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New Web Order - Facebook Is Losing E-Commerce →
So what is going wrong at Facebook? How has Pinterest managed to capitalize on the intersection of social and ecommerce while the worlds largest social network has been left to flounder?
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“Social networking websites such as Facebook hold tremendous potential for...”
– The Power of Ads on Social Networks
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“A revolutionary product is fraught with peril: it may not fit people’s...”
– Don Norman’s jnd.org / Technology First, Needs Last
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“if you want to start running in the morning, it’s essential that you choose a...”
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
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“a right to anonymity is meaningless if an anonymous author’s identity can be...”
– Is Writing Style Sufficient to Deanonymize Material Posted Online? « 33 Bits of Entropy
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“The process within our brains that creates habits is a three-step loop. First,...”
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
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“Perhaps the biggest illusion in content-centric industries is the belief that...”
– Why Music Is Not A Product & Three Reasons Why That’s A Good Thing | Techdirt
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“certainly, there are journalists on TV and elsewhere who are not particularly...”
– Does it matter if journalists don’t get the top jobs at cable newschannels? | TV shows, TV news, media issues: The Feed | Tampa Bay Times
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“to be fair, Brooks’ job as alien columnist for the New York Times changes...”
– The Worst Column Written About Sports Ever Published - From Our Editors - SBNation.com
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“people don’t want to share everything they read online. Rather, they share the...”
– How To Use Facebook’s Open Graph To Build Your Business | Digital Quarters
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“New York is still the number one coworking city in the world. Berlin overtook...”
– 1320 coworking spaces worldwide ::: Deskmag - The Coworking Magazine 