December 2010
“For Google, nearly all of whose profits depend on advertising revenue, dominance...”
– Kontra (via Daring Fireball)
And so it begins. Is this the endpoint for all network era companies?
My Top 10 Songs of 2010
I promised my buddy Pete that I’d get him this list and then I thought it would probably be a better idea if I just posted the thing publicly. So here are my top 12 songs of 2010. There is really no order, I mean we’re talking about 12 songs, so all of them are great. I’ve linked to all the songs below:
1. Bon Iver - Come Talk to Me
2. Ghostwaves - In the City
3. Junip -...
“The reality is that fewer and fewer museums live up to our ideals. To keep their...”
– Marc Schiller
This is not a problem. I’m just not sure that the “validity” that Museums bestow on artists is necessary to establish your place in history. I think that Museums inability to push limits is an institutional problem, not a social problem. Society will route around...
FCC kills true Net Neutrality →
demons:
Basically:
FCC said companies aren’t allowed to block access to websites
However, new rules being introduced have loopholes that will pave the way for a tiered internet.
Real Net Neutrality is good, because it means that all internet content is treated equally. The FCC’s definition of New Neutrality isn’t actual Net Neutrality at all. And that is bad.
Visit Save The Internet.com for...
“As it looks at its future, Google needs to realize that it has a “user...”
– Google’s Big Problem: It Ain’t What You Think
This is all I have been thinking about since my last get together with Google. Design is gaining prominence and they just outsource to algorithm.
My Top 10 Songs of 2010
I promised my buddy Pete that I’d get him this list and then I thought it would probably be a better idea if I just posted the thing publicly. So here are my top 12 songs of 2010. There is really no order, I mean we’re talking about 12 songs, so all of them are great. I’ve linked to all the songs below:
1. Bon Iver - Come Talk to Me
2. Ghostwaves - In the City
3. Junip -...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Rockabye Baby! (14)
Music Together (7)
Warren Zevon (4)
Florence + the Machine (4)
Son Volt (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
(void* dan): Request: An Apple for Android →
danspinosa:
I love my iPhone and my MacBook Pro. I’ve loved (and lost) my XBox 360, Play Station, Sega Genesis, NES and Atari. As a hacker and engineer who *must* know how everything works, I really appreciate when high tech is made elegant and it just works. I enjoy fully open systems, building on them and…
Smart. I can see this executed on the pad form factor because distribution...
Blip.tv Readies HTML5 as its Standard Player,... →
Awesome. Big fan of this move to HTML5
“But Goldman, of all the banks, always seemed like they were the most careful...”
– The Return of H.F.M.
Charming.
loved Exit Through the Gift Shop (delivered by... →
“Specialization works for companies like Quidsi and Zappos because they build...”
– What Amazon Fears Most: Diapers - BusinessWeek (via Instapaper)
“The problem with Gawker Media’s current model—and this is true of many other...”
– The new Gawker Media Totally over the CPM and scale as tool for ad effectiveness. Throwing volume against low yields is boring and uninspiring. Time to get smarter early. Will write my fat advertising manifesto right after christmas. Time to figure out what my stand is. (via Instapaper)
“The big danger is that America is provoked into bending or breaking its own...”
– Dealing with WikiLeaks: The right reaction | The Economist
Pretty sure Economist came down right where I am thinking it should.
(via Instapaper)
“There are no more strongmen like Deng Xiaoping. Jiang did not like Hu, but could...”
– [US embassy cables: Former Singapore PM (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/210110) fascinating stuff on China’s long term view. (via Instapaper)
Digging Go Go Ghost. Bits of Jens Lekman, Vampire...
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest...”
– Paul Rand.
vruz: who knew better. (via vruz)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
Music Together (76)
Rockabye Baby! (41)
Ella Jenkins (16)
Neil Young (14)
Bon Iver (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Leadership is about doing the possible, not sitting around and waiting for the...”
– Michael Bloomberg (via davemorin)
Leadership is also about making decisions with less than perfect information. Seems to align with action over contemplation.
Wow! Great start to my morning. Enjoy this...
Signal to noise is ridiculously high at...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46465824@N02/523884539... →
Playing around. Wondering how this shows up in Tumblr.
“You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they’re...”
– Paul Graham from an essay in 2005 (via 37signals)
Need to fix this part of my existence.
Digging it. Fuzz pop is kind of an amazing genre.
...
“Mercy Corps, through a United States government-financed program, is providing...”
– I’ve Seen the Future (in Haiti) - NYTimes.com
Inspired!
(via tedr)
“If the long haul were all there was, Wikileaks would be an obviously bad thing....”
– Clay Shirky
The tension between secrecy and transparency in negotiation is the key to this argument. The other reality is that information is data and the Internet doesn’t abide data as atoms. The transformation to bits means that Wikileaks is a standard. The government should do what...
“I also suddenly realized that I’ve been quietly stowing away a secret cache of...”
– I have mixed feelings about Facebook.
Fantastic insights about Facebook. Nothing is for yourself on Facebook. The value prop of Fbook continues to diminish for me.
(via Instapaper)
“Approximately 10 calories of fossil fuels are required to produce every 1...”
– The Burning Platform
Hmmmn. Not so great.
(via Instapaper)
“America is a certain kind of country, dedicated to the inherent and equal...”
– George W. Bush
More cynically, this also creates long term competitive advantage.
(via Instapaper)
“People come to me and they ask, how do I get 1.5m people reading my blog? And...”
– Do writers need paper? « Prospect Magazine (via Instapaper)