June 2009
96 posts
This is “Repetition” by the Black...
WatchJust Landed - 36 Hours on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
This piece looks for tweets containing the phrases ‘just landed in…’ or ‘just arrived in…’. Locations from these tweets are located using MetaCarta’s Location Finder API. The home location for the traveling users are scraped from their Twitter pages. The system then plots these voyages over time.
Krugman Misstates Arrow →
My big problem with Krugman is his intellectual haughtiness. He consistently makes arguments with absolute authority that are then broken down by those of equal intellectual vigour. The issue then becomes his acolyte readers who support his arguments with equal assurity claiming to you, the other side of the argument, that it is foolhardy to argue against a Nobel prize winner. In any event...
This is “Silver Among the Gold” by...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
The Doors (14)
Andrew Bird (12)
Mos Def (8)
Anoraak (8)
Interpol (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A Bad Day for Search Engines: How News of Michael... →
For those trying to make sense of Twitter and the emergence and long-term impact of the real-time web, this article gets to the heart of it. Fascinating timeline of how the web unearthed and amplified the story of Michael Jackson’s death.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
This is Sunset Rubdown’s “Coming to at...
“By something like 1300 A.D., China was the most technologically advanced...”
– Charles I. Jones and Paul M. Romer
Nostalgia Blackmail →
Thought this was an important statement on marketing. I couldn’t agree more that longevity is not a valuable selling point when we derive tremendous utility from products that are oftentimes less than a year old.
Lazy selling propositions and product development is a relic of the industrial age which will no doubt find its end during the massive cycles of creative destruction unleashed by...
This is “Black Magic” from Magic...
Efficient Markets and Innovation →
Finally got around to reading this and it’s a doozy. I’ve got more work to do to fully understand the implications, but I can tell you that they jibe with my own feelings, which are…that the efficient market hypothesis is seriously flawed. Specifically in respect to so called “financial innovations” which supposedly manage risk. The basic idea is that these...
Anna's iPhone 3Gs Review...where does she come...
My friend Anna Mohrman is an emerging technology nerd who asked if she might guest blog on her experience with the new iPhone. I figured it would be a helpful review so I agreed. Unsurprisingly it was an excellent review and what I hope will be the start of more smart guest postings here at You, Me and My API. Take it away Anna.
Unless you are a technophobe or living under a rock, you are well...
This is Peter Bjorn and John singing “It...
Kling on Financial Regulation →
Behavior’s are response’s to stimulus (actually have no idea if that’s true, but sounds good). If that is the case then our corporate greed is just a response to the incentives created by society. Living in civil society we can see that the roots of this rest with legislation. Legislation not only responds to the marketplace, but it also defines the marketplace as entrepreneurs...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-21) →
Size answers my questions about "Pinning" via...
Yeah, I don’t think you should be too upset by this. First of all, I think what you’re trying to reference by the phrase “markets are supposed to reflect the wisdom of crowds” is the efficient-market hypothesis which is somewhat different than your “wisdom of crowds” thesis. Basically EMH states that a security’s price is a correct representation of value...
WatchPhoenix - Lisztomania on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Going to see these French dudes with G and a couple great friends tonight. Pretty pumped about it. I’ll report back on the show itself.
Hedging Moves Look to 'Pin' J. Crew as Expiration... →
I don’t know too much about trading or markets, but I do recognize that the markets are supposed to reflect the wisdom of the crowds. The wisdom of the crowd seems to be the best and most honest signaling mechanism we’ve found yet. Well then options seems to have obliterated the meaning of that signaling. Now all the signals seem to be in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th derivatives and the...
Venture Capital, World Destroyer. Plus the Merits... →
Seems to me that there ought to be a distinction here and the Obama administration, who is aware of nuance, should realize the difference and legislate appropriately.
Acting Small to Solve Big - #iranelection →
I’m a bit biased, but I think what John Gerzema’s saying on his blog is pretty great stuff. Synthesizing a lot to put forward a mounting body of evidence about what advertising may evolve towards.
If you haven’t caught up with Passion Pit...
Why Krugman's Not Worried About Inflation →
After reading this I think I’ve got to side with the guy with the Nobel (despite his political views) over the guy who was clueless about the asset bubble. This inflation v deflation debate is worth delving into if you have the cycles for it.
“Everyone would say, ‘O.K., it is the word of the leader.’ Now the myth that...”
– Azar Nafisi
Max Anderson, an author of the MBA oath, Responds...
What a great conversation. My name is Max and I’m one of the students who worked on putting together the oath. I can tell you that we’ve had many of these same discussions internally. One of our primary goals for this initiative was to spark discussion about what the MBA degree means and what responsibility, if any business has to society. Whether you sign the oath or not, if you are...
“These people are not seeking a revolution, We don’t want this regime to fall. We...”
– Ali Reza (a young actor in a brown T-shirt who stood for a moment watching on the rally’s sidelines)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-14) →
Commodifying Search
“In fact, it would be great to have a plug-in that randomizes between your choice of providers as a way to wean oneself off over-reliance on a single search engine.”
-Albert Wegner
I completely agree with this thought and have been using Bing more often and in fact recommended it this weekend. It’s fascinating to me that I have absolute muscle memory loyalty to Google, but...
This is “Relator” by Pete Yorn and...