January 2012
britticisms:
“Forget” by Liana La Havas (Shlohmo...
Erica and Lief, Manamana, Jan 2012
“The way I see it, there’s a lack of need for any legislation at all. As a...”
– Tim O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA — Tech News and Analysis
(via fred-wilson)
The Rise of the New Groupthink
Anyone who has ever needed noise-canceling headphones in her own office or marked an online calendar with a fake meeting in order to escape yet another real one knows what I’m talking about.
I do both all the time.
“One of the things I try to do when I build software is to find a balance between...”
– Caterina Fake for GigaOm (via cacioppo)
December 2011
The unexpected, the obstacles, many times (always?) yields the coolest solutions. We just experienced that on our redesign project.
John Hagel on Empowerment, Management Fears, and... →
AL: How is the empowerment of the individual, especially through social media, affecting management?
From Social Business To Superlinear Corporation →
How do we make corporations more like cities, which get more productive as they grow bigger? Help me with my ongoing research project.
RT @johnbattelle: For Start-Ups, Sorting the Data Cloud Is the Next Big Thing: http://t.co/GhOAAF1F #wwhw
The busiest day of the year at Whole Foods OAK. http://t.co/A267IAXU
RT @rjs: Giving myself inbox 0 for Christmas.
“Tell your secrets”
– Allen Ginsberg, when asked “how does one become a prophet?” (via newspeedwayboogie)
RT @johnbattelle: Why SOPA is unconstitutional - Boing Boing http://t.co/Z0Nq8xHC via @BoingBoing #wwhw
Hm, Twitter has switched up the UI. Feels simpler at first glance.
RT @JiveSoftware: Tune in to the livestream of $Jive opening @NASDAQ today and your #jiveipo tweets in Times Square http://t.co/ZTGSdV2N
RT @aweissman: “Let’s create the world’s first digitally literate society. The world’s most desirable workforce.” by @naval http://t.co …
“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone...”
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org (via taylordavidson)
RT @timoreilly: “Figuring out what will replace the job is the great challenge of the next 30 years” @psaffo over dinner at Singularity U
RT @ThePunchdown: “Here come the holidays” @ThePunchdown sparkling flight! Lahaye Rose & De Sousa solera started in 1986! Free splash of …
“Only demanding common task builds community.”
– George McLeod (via underpaidgenius)
Or maybe complimentary task.
RT @dhh: Really looking forward to sharing more about Basecamp Next in the coming weeks. The tech and the design is all new, all fresh.
http://thisisfanatical.com/phaeleh-afterglow-feat-s...
Jive is coming out with revamped analytics this month called Community Manager Reporting: http://t.co/5gURCT0L
Bette’s To Go, 4th St http://t.co/F7F6vmcW
My five year old is quite an artist. http://t.co/LfXh0ULy
“At many firms, a lot of investment bankers have been convinced that we are...”
– NYT DealBook, 12/2/2011 (via informationarbitrage)
Crushing illusions, moving on, and creating the new world. That’s my hope. (via taylordavidson)
“I invested in Awe.sm’s seed round because they provide core social measurement...”
– Reaction Wheel: You can’t manage what you can’t meaure. Not at scale, anyway.
Agreed, here. (via taylordavidson)
The point’s been made before, but Kristof makes it well. http://t.co/Hznwljbn
“There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
– Mark Twain (via kateoplis)
November 2011
“Yesterday, police at UC Davis attacked seated students with a chemical gas.
I...”
– Militarization of Campus Police by Bob Ostertag Composer, historian, journalist, and Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at UC Davis (via: alyson-noele)
You should probably read this. (via kateoplis)
“Borrowing from the playbooks of executives like Steven P. Jobs and Mayor Michael...”
– Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship - NYTimes.com
October 2011
Learn to code | Codecademy →
RT @MeiMeiFox: Is Google overselling Google+ engagement data? Probably # of active users is quite low http://t.co/kiYjQr8h
“One of these made-up permit requirements, which are not transparent or...”
– Naomi Wolf: How I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“In the middle east, we’ve seen the power of the Internet in the Arab...”
– A VC: Investing In The Cultural Revolution
“Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.com, a cloud-based software provider,...”
– One Country, Two Revolutions - NYTimes.com
“We are at an inflection point as a city and as a country,” he said. “That is not...”
– A Progressive in the Age of Austerity - NYTimes.com