December 2007
First ME session
Just had a great ME session. I once read/heard Jeremiah Owyang say that the way he blogs so often, is by starting his day with himself. Before reading other blogs or emails he writes for himself. I heard the same goes for Fred Wilson; he wakes up before everyone else and sits and writes. I started my first me session by awaking this morning at 6am. Had quality shower thinking. Which consisted of...
Mixed Martial Arts
Mix martial arts (MMA), and by extension the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), is going to be the second biggest sport worldwide (to soccer, or perhaps basketball) by 2013. — jonathanmarcus I spent the day yesterday speaking to a good friend who is doing really great things in the MMA world. There is soo much potential in the MMA that its scary. I personally dont enjoy watching guys kick...
Hope you didn’t get the NFL Network just for it to go free on CBS & NBC. — peterwknox
And my9, what’s going on with that?!
kwout | A brilliant way to quote →
screencapture service with quick post option to flickr and tumblr. — soxiam
We're #3!
When you google Aviary we show up in 3rd place! Take that wikipedia!
How to succesffuly execute a project
Eran reflects on 2007 and concludes with a great check list for succesfully executing a project. The following is the abridged version. I encourage you to read the full post on the hueniverse blog. 1. Know what you are trying to solve. 2. Find the right people. 3. Make it easy for people to join. 4. Don’t be too nice or too democratic. 5. Set deadlines. 6. Don’t branch out too...
“Experience is really just the ability to guesstimate the amount of friction...”
– Avinash Karnani » Blog Archive » Oh Planning! i liked the full post as well.
“Most of us don’t get epiphanies. We only get a whisper — a faint...”
– Po Bronson.
“One thing I do know is that boredom, like necessity is the mother of invention....”
– Joe Pitti, on why overstimulation is a bad thing for kids’ imaginations. I remember feeling bored a lot when I was little, at least enough to stage home plays and write notebooks full of stories and invent several other worlds to disappear into. His whole post on “cultivating creative...
Derek Powazek – Rule 1 for Collaborative Media:... →
Lane Hartwell hubub in laymans terms
An easy solution to DMCA conflicts →
some of my thoughts on sharing and creating content online
a perspective on the news
i just watched my local news for the first time in ten years. it was something to do with it being the only new thing on television. who are they kidding with this shit? why would i care what celebrity is on drugs this week? what if i don’t like sports? why would i want to watch ten minutes of the weather when i could look it up online? what’s with the graphics and presentation...
Difference between steroids and breast implants? →
Adobe opens up messaging, releases betas of Flex... →
The Billion-Dollar T-Shirt →
“You should go to Israel,” said Alex. “They bless basketballs there. Baruch ata...”
– The Extreme New York Childhood of Alex Goldberg — New York Magazine
Coconut Records - Nighttiming I dont know what it...
Tweets - Overheard.it →
like overheard in newyork but for tweets. why didnt morgan friedman do this?
“Fuck Apple. Long AAPL.”
– A VC: iPhone For Sale
San Francisco, CA, United States →
San Francisco, CA, United States from December 16th to 20th
What I want my Tumblr to be
I do not need an aggregator of my online presence because it makes no sense. What I need is an aggregator of my soul that I can’t channel elsewhere. This is what my Tumblr blog wil be. — alexiskold
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screw curating I want a soul aggregator too!
my promise to curate
i see tumblr as the perfect means to curate internet consumption. therefore i will stop pulling in ALL my feeds an overwhelmed the crap out of you. I will only share stuff that i think is worthy of sharing. i have realized that i have inundated my friends/followers with tweets and pics that they have already consumed. Nate commented about this the first day I began tumbling but yet he is...
was not my most favorite
we didnt plan on going here for dinner but the place we wanted to eat at was closed for a private party. we got our food after waiting for an hour. they brought our mains instead of the appetizer then they brought the appetizers and when they finally brought our mains they messed up my order. When they brought what i ordered they didnt give me whole wheat pasta like a requested but i was too...
Flashforward
none of us realized we were a bunch of filthy communists. It didnt’ quite click that we had been negating our property rights, by default, on almost every single site, for ten straight years.— [future] jakoblodwick —- but how else do we make money on the backs of others ;) ?
