October 2011
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Half-formed Thoughts: Thinking about Premium...
The last few years have seen massive investment in the advertising side of the content equation, and our firm has been right there with the crowd. Meanwhile, the consensus seems to be that the world is moving inevitably towards the Huffington Post model, where authors publish for free in exchange for a portal-provided audience. I surely agree that a new form of journalism is emerging (and is...
“In general, however, you should not take assertive and confident people at their...”
– Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence - NYTimes.com
“[R]egulators must have the ability to flexibly interpret and respond to changing...”
– The Epicurean Dealmaker: You’re Doing It Wrong
“Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even...”
– by Lemony Snicket – OccupyWriters.com
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“Less than half of Internet connected televisions actually get connected to the...”
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Van Baker, vice-president of research at Gartner.
Love this. If only because it might stop talk from marketers who tell me pushing an ad through a Yahoo! TV widget is the future. So far, the only successful innovations in digital TV don’t involve ads. Unfortunately, admen aren’t taking the hint...
“At Facebook, there was a cultural resistance to process, to the point where the...”
– Engineering Management - Process by Yishan Wong
“A programmer will eventually tell you to use Mac OSX or Linux. If the programmer...”
– Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition
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“Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.”
– xkcd
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via bookmania)
The Kooks - Young Folks
Heard this in a bar last...
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