December 2010
25 posts
2010 Travel
Homebase: NYC
Via Plane or Train:
- Las Vegas, NV
- San Francisco, CA (10)
- Austin, TX (4)
- Los Angeles, CA (3)
- Boulder, CO
- Chicago, IL (2)
- San Diego, CA (2)
- Portland, OR
- San Sebastian, Spain
- Barcelona, Spain
- Madrid, Spain
- Paris, France
- Boston, MA
- West Palm Beach, FL
- Washington, D.C.
- Portland, ME
- Gaviotas, Mexico
- Nosara, Costa Rica
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
-...
“The only way to solve the complexities of services is to treat them as systems,...”
– Living with Complexity: How Apple Reinvented Music Distribution
“Tumblr is designed for daydreamers. One of the more enjoyable aspects of the...”
– - I found this and some other gems here after the…
“A year earlier, traffic to the site was three million unique visitors. Another...”
– The Atlantic Turns a Profit, With an Eye on the Web - NYTimes.com
Like The Wire concept.
jon steinberg: Branded Content is Old and Proven,... →
jonsteinberg:
I was excited to see a study this week that 68% of companies plan to shift marketing funds from traditional forms to branded content in the coming year. And 35% of branded content spending in 2010 was electronic. The full article is here: http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008091
What is old is new again and I’m very excited about this trend catching on. But here is...
Tumblr Search/Discover
johnbattelle:
Every time I start with something new, like Tumblr, or Twitter before that, or Facebook before that, I find that search and discovery is pretty broken. It’s a function of how fast the service is scaling, but man it’s a pain. For example, I know I want to follow Fred Wilson on Tumblr, but try finding him via the search bar up in the right. Nope. That’s easily fixed, is it coming,...
“No one knows when surfers started showing up at Playa Guiones, but it’s clear...”
– Printable version: A surfer’s paradise at Playa Guiones, Costa Rica
Next week.
(via Instapaper)
“Unless you’ve never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten...”
– Aaron Sorkin: In Her Defense, I’m Sure the Moose Had It Coming
I’m struck by this post. Kudos to Aaron Sorkin, but it also made me think about Palin even more. Palin is using a Reality Show to further her campaign with Hyperreality.
Outside of the great points Sorkin makes in his...
“What happened here? Are we becoming a nation of shameless snuggle-bunnies? I...”
– Do real men like to cuddle? - By Dave Johns - Slate Magazine
“There was demand in the New York and Philadelphia area, not only from our...”
– 7-Eleven to offer vegan food options at 8 NYC locations; Noodles, dumplings have no meat, dairy, egg
Radiolab
I’m way late here but I’ve been fascinated by RadioLab since stumbling upon it a few months ago. I’ve also broke my one rule with running which is to not run with headphones on in order to catch up on the archives.
Last night I listened to my favorite one so far. The New Normal from October 2009 covers 3 fantastic stories all around the concept of reframing our ideas about...
“So long live the social editor, and long live RSS. Perhaps it’s time to...”
– Social Editors and Super Nodes - An Appreciation of RSS - John Battelle’s Searchblog
MY VERY DEEP THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF THE... →
fimoculous:
So that Curation panel at the New Museum from a couple weeks ago? Here’s the video, queued up to the only point where I say something sensible. Sorta. It’s about why I’m worried about blogging, but it’s also about where I see a glimmer of hope.
(Somewhere in there I also talk about annoying fuckers who make their tumblrs private, the death of blogging, the flattening of culture, the...