September 2009
77 posts
“The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on...”
– Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK | Media | The Guardian
we all knew this day was coming…it will be a lot of fun when this happens in the US market.
(via bijan)
“My own assessment is that finding the right place to live is among the three...”
– Richard Florida
This is Mumford & Sons singing “The...
This car is amazing →
Check out this tire testing monstrosity created by Michelin using Citroën and Chevy parts. 10 tons of madness.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
The xx (37)
Cat Power (22)
Beth Orton (20)
Sarah McLachlan (17)
Natalie Merchant (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
WatchWhat Makes NYC’s Startup Scene Special?
Like most text light, visual heavy presentations these days the added context of the transcript will help fill this deck out. However, you can get the gist of this. It’s funny that two of the companies my partners and I have founded are focused on media monetization, specifically music, and email.
As I said to my wife last night over dinner in...
The Collaboration Imperative →
This idea keeps coming up in both personal and business discussions. That idea is that pervasive collaboration as competitive advantage, not kumbaya business is here to stay. Read the article and let me know your thoughts.
What trends of this do you see in your workplace, business, education, non-profit. As we build Bandwith collaboration and openness are at the core of what we believe is our...
“all out or all in, surrender the place to the Taliban or do armed...”
– David Brooks
Watchchriscarlberg:
skier. helmet cam. avalanche. wow.
This is “Don’t Think Twice (Messengers...
“The banks’ balance sheets will certainly have benefited from their equity...”
– FT Alphaville - This bank-engineered equity rally
A Universal Truth →
I really like the idea of Scientific Diplomacy…It’s a long term good that has seemingly low startup costs. My fear is that it somehow gets politicized as a game changer and too much pressure is heaped on it.
This is a good example of thinking small, to solve big.
Preservation is for Artifacts...Artifacts Don't...
“And while there are many out there chronicling what ails our country’s newspapers, community dailies continue to shut down their presses, and not nearly enough is being done to find ways to preserve these institutions.”
-Rep. Carolyn Maloney
I don’t expect that this will go anywhere, but at the risk that it does I am committing to keeping this issue alive here at You, Me...
The Real Problem With The Economy Is That It... →
I’ve been talking with my father and mother about just this phenomenon. Well described.
“The company’s wiggle room comes from the process of defining a delivery...”
– To Outfox the Chicken Tax, Ford Strips Its Own Vans
WPP’s next acquisition...Alice.com
Let’s start off by explaining what Alice is. It is an open platform for consumer packaged goods manufacturers, like P&G and Unilever, to sell directly to consumers instead of going through retail channels like Target or Wal-Mart. It is also a cute little online retail site that happens to pair products directly with coupons, so you don’t go hunting you just get the discount based on the...
WatchDavid Axelrod deftly explains why allowing insurers to sell insurance across state lines won’t improve competition…take it away David. Thanks to Wolf Blitzer for helping D Axe make his profound point.
jared:
Monster of Folk - Say Please
(via:...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Charlie Parker (17)
Miles Davis (12)
Floratone (11)
Amos Lee (10)
Jazzhole (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Last week my brother’s buddy Mike sent me a...
“The thread that ties all of these things together for me is that technology...”
– Anil Dash (via jared)
Is It Green?: Method Home Products →
Greenwashing sucks! Method doesn’t, which makes it awesome and I think I’m committing more of our family’s tiny household products budget to support Method’s design and eco-consciousness.
The Web and Education: We Need Scale!
Having given this a shot already and gone through the exercise of working a biz model, I think that profitability is not the right metric for an industry so entrenched with divergent public interests. That said, I think that something can be built which is not a massive money loser. The truth of it is that it must be patient/impatient capital. That’s a tough balance, but fortunes like...
tuneage:
Plastic Operator - “Folder”
What...
““Get the Strategic Sequence Right.” The sequence of questions to...”
– W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13) →
The National (10)
Phoenix (8)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals (6)
Spoon (6)
Tiny Vipers (4)
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