February 2011
Tweet-By-Phone From Egypt →
tedr:
parislemon:
This is just all kinds of awesome.
The revolution will be audio-transcribed tunneled from cell to short form text services…
January 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Music Together (84)
Angus & Julia Stone (22)
Greg & Steve (16)
Justin Roberts (13)
Girl Talk (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The rational unconscious gives us a way of understanding how babies can learn so...”
– [Alison Gopnik(http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_6.html#shirky) experiencing this now. Mind boggling. (via Instapaper)
“In the past two years, GE has created about 6,000 manufacturing jobs in the...”
– Jeff Immelt
For the record, I’m pleased as punch that GE has created 6,000 new jobs in the past two years. The problem is, they’re one of the largest companies we’ve got and they created only 6,000 new jobs and yet have the lobbying apparatus to disproportionately gain from...
Erin dropped the jams on me yesterday. Apparently...
Hierarchies v Networks
I find the comparison between Facebook visualized and Scientific collaboration visualized fascinating. Each of these is an expression of collaboration, but in such a different way. Dig in and send me your thoughts.
Facebook
Scientific Collaboration
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Music Together (84)
Junip (22)
Bon Iver (15)
Arcade Fire (7)
Little Loud (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I’ve made clear my belief that we’re in the midst of a massive global...”
– Bryce Roberts
Bam!
“Churn comes from first making people believe they can do anything but then...”
– Martin Varsavsky (via Instapaper)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Music Together (89)
Rockabye Baby! (47)
Go Go Ghost (10)
Coldplay (6)
Norah Jones (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Network v Industrial
Interesting to think that with the dawn of the network economy we are moving from wasting atoms to wasting bits. The unknown is which wasteful behavior is more taxing on our physical resource base.
“One source close to one of the big Internet companies that tried to buy Groupon...”
– The Weirdest Groupons Ever
Rafer called this early last year. Made sense then, looks real now.
“I carry the Kindle, iPad, laptop, and iPhone on me at all times. Total weight is...”
– Frank Chimero - The Setup
“There’s too much money in private equity coffers right now, and firms are...”
– Private Equity Throws A Billion Dollars At MLB.Com, Gets Stonewalled
This will end well.
“I’m a tool builder. That’s how I think of myself. I want to build really good...”
– Steve Jobs (via Instapaper)
loved Winter in Yosemite on Boxee →
“That’s why I say that my goal is a Twitter feed that’s 100 percent personal and...”
– @JayRosen_NYU on his Twitter strategy (via Instapaper)
“Some content comes and goes, as in the case with the Timothy Hutton vehicle...”
– What Hollywood Execs Privately Say About Netflix - The Hollywood Reporter
This is interesting. Combine $NFLX best in class distribution with content producers who benefit by the marketplace they’ve created and you have a sticky business proposition.
(via Instapaper)
Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 Still →
Leverage happens with weight. Distributing the weight across the long tail does nothing to change leverage ratios. Similar philosophy that Google has with it’s approach to search. What works for Google may not work for quality.
parislemon:
If true (and there’s no reason to believe it’s not given what we’ve seen), this is a perfect example of the problem with Android’s “openness”.
Samsung...
insane finale →
Here is the Jam from Cut Copy's Newest
Cut Copy - Take Me Over (Flight Facilities Remix) by flightfacilities
Going on a run. Will be taking this track with me.
“Liquid glass spray is perhaps the most important nanotechnology product to...”
– Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything intense. I’ve got a few ideas for liquid glass.
“Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet...”
– cdixon.org (via hiten)
“Quite frankly, I’m sick of Google taking stands for “open” and “doing what’s...”
– So Google, You’ll Be Dropping Support For Flash Next, Right?
Google is the Obama of tech.
(via Instapaper)
“Monocultures have negative impact. Polycultures take longer to create...”
– New York to displace Silicon Valley
New York, New York
“It was utterly indispensable on the show floor. We all had our assignments going...”
– Lifechanger: GroupMe Group Texting
Well played Steve and Jared. Thinking SXSW might be a good thing for this company.
“Yet social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or...”
– Douglas Rushkoff
I tend to agree, though I’m not sure if this is conventional wisdom. If it is then I start to get nervous, since conventional wisdom tends to be off the mark in an economic transition (made that up, but it feels right)
“Kara: What’s the percentage of people who just read Twitter, and don’t tweet...”
– Interview With Twitter CEO Dick Costolo | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD this is why twitter can be more successful than Facebook. The incentives for ongoing participation are more varied than Facebook. Makes Twitter about communication, not connection. Connection modes can change on a dime,...
“J.P. Morgan research found that 47 percent of all active users of Netflix’s...”
– Survey Says: Netflix Turns TV Viewers Into Cord Cutters: Online Video News « (via bijan) this is fascinating, though I wish the stat were the difference between non-Netflix and Netflix users