April 2009
Why is Joe Biden Such An Effen Idiot? →
This question is sponsored by Effen Vodka. If I like your answer I will buy you a glass of it, and will make sure to hold the swine flu.
“Startups are inherently chaos. As a founder you need to prepare yourself to...”
– Preparing for Chaos - the Life of a Startup « Steve Blank (via datainsightsideas)
Bible. (via mikehudack)
Power of Defaults
Peoples online habits never stop to amaze me. Better search won’t solve this problem better default settings would.
heyitsnoah:
“Microsoft’s Live Search revamp apparently cannot come soon enough. Hitwise data shows that the most commonly searched term on Live Search over the last four weeks has been “Google,” accounting for one percent of all queries. Number two? “Yahoo.”” — To be fair...
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No Surprise: In the Digital Era, Territorial... →
The Labels will wage war on themselves.
heyitsnoah:
catbird:
Sony Music France wrote to tell me to take down a Passion Pit song I posted yesterday (“remove those copyrighted files”).
I am not taking it down.
The MP3 was introduced to the internet yesterday by the band’s US label, Frenchkiss, who premiered it on Pitchfork and then urged people to “go download it.”
This is not an issue of...
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WatchJamie Wilkinson, online artist-entrepreneur and instructor of the Internet Famous course at the Parsons School of Design, shares how to get your 15 minutes of internet fame and, more importantly, if it’s worth it.
I missed Jamie’s talk last week at Gelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker Series but I’m glad it was recorded and posted on the internets/vimeo.
Above is part 1
part 2
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“People love progress, but hate change”
– Mitchell Baker via @azaaza
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“With these new methods, you can access the stream on behalf of a user and then...”
– Facebook Open Stream API | Facebook Developers News
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I look forward to the day someone creates a smarter stream something like what reboxed is trying to do with email
Key Facts about Swine Influenza →
Can people catch swine flu from eating pork? No.
Swine influenza viruses are not transmitted by food. You can not get swine influenza from eating pork or pork products. Eating properly handled and cooked pork and pork products is safe. Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 160°F kills the swine flu virus as it does other bacteria and viruses.
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DAMN!I was hoping for a justification for...
Do I need to buy this?
Amazon.com: 3M 1860 N95 RESPIRATOR AND SURGICAL MASK/BIRD FLU
They are having a “SPECIAL 3 DAY SALE” !!!!
Do I need to buy this?
Law + Culture + Business + Art + Rights
Luke Crawford on Law + Culture + Business + Art + Rights
Law: Current legal systems reflect the values of an industrial pre-information age. They will change when a critical mass of people figure out a better one or the pain of the old one hurts too much, whichever happens first. Laws move slowly.
Culture: The explosion of access to + sharing of content is making our shared culture more...
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Donate To The Baratunde Got Jacked Recovery &... →
Baratunde Got Jacked
On april 17th, while performing at a Manhattan club, someone stole my bag with laptop, keys, wallet, canon digital camera, canteen and deodorant! Yeah, they stole the deodorant too. That’s a cold bastard right there.
I really don’t have the funds to replace it but need these tools to do my job. I’m suggesting a $5 donation to help me get it back. That’s 700 people I...
A VC
VCs have a front row seat but its the entrepreneurs who build companies At best, the VC is a consigliere and a recruiter and a strategy advisor and investment banker But we don’t start and run businesses. Originally posted as a comment by fredwilson on A VC using Disqus.
Caroline The Journalist
Caroline McCarthy is not a blogger, she is a journalist, you go girl!
innonate:
“Just after noon on Wednesday, CNet’s Carolyn McCarthy reported that Twitter and others had pulled OAuth support because of a security problem in the spec. “In the interest of online safety,” she wrote, “CNET News has chosen not to make the details of the security hole public.” McCarthy was at FOOCamp as well and may...
“Nothing is real until it is recorded.”
– Virginia Woolf (via fimoculous)
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This should be the tagline for HitRECord.org
“It’s important that you’re as passionate about your users as you are about your...”
– Justin Day
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Time for sleep is now. Thanks for the reminder Justin
“those who said they download illegal music for “free” bought ten times as much...”
– The latest survey that record companies will ignore. This one by Norwegian School of Management (via gtmcknight via Arstechnica)
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i dont think its because ppl feel bad about stealing music, but rather like to show appreciation for the music they truly enjoy.
“One does well to remember that Profitability follows Disillusionment.”
– Scott Rafer
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Five rules for getting your ideas off the ground
Engage in personal projects and things that you love.
Share your ideas and listen to other people’s.
Prioritize your projects so you don’t sabotage yourself by trying to do everything.
Do what makes sense.
Be proactive.
via Nicole Wong via The 99% Conference
Bummed I couldnt be in attendance.
Congrats Scott on the event.
Jeffrey posted the slides from his talk with Jake
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Great demo of browser technology →
Click on the link. I really like the way that these guys made the browser so interactive. There are some really catchy ways of using this same method for ecommerce which would be really sticky I think
(siminoff via hrrrthrrr)
Why isnt there more of this being created?
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NEW The Rumble Strips - London
From their...
“The problem is that the distribution of content isn’t the real problem for...”
– Terry Heaton
via NoahBrier
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