Hi, I’m Brooks Jordan, and I assemble bits and pieces from here and there on Tumblr to understand what’s going on in digital marketing and advertising. (And there’s a lot going on.) I also grab stuff from around the Web about tech/culture/design and the economy … or whatever. I blog at brooksjordan.name, on the same topics, and I’d love to know what you’re writing/thinking about, too, so come by and tell me. If Twitter is the best way to connect, by all means: twitter.com/brooksjordanTumblr (3.0; @brooksjordan)http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/Listening to a short story being read on NPR. So enjoyable …http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236690725http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236690725Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:40:50 -0800“John S. Reed, who helped engineer the merger that created Citigroup Inc., apologized for his...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236404257http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236404257Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:57:57 -0800http://twitpic.com/oo4i3 - The rise of geek culture …http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236379479http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236379479Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:25:47 -0800I’m with a lot of Cal fans on BART. I want to go, wah!http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236379481http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236379481Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:25:47 -0800“mdorov makes a really good point. What Fred didn’t make explicit is that the choice...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236158364http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/236158364Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:35:05 -0800“Who’s to blame? The buck stops with the president. But did his economic advisers make it...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235584647http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235584647Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:43:17 -0800<a href="http://www.realdealdocs.com/">Online Legal Documents - Sample Legal Documents to Download and Print from RealDealDocs</a>http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235564486http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235564486Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:45 -0800<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/235395337/tumblr_kspp4tNoo01qz7v55&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><a title="Sooner or Later, Chiddy Bang" target="_blank" href="http://soundcloud.com/chiddy-bang">“Sooner or Later,” Chiddy Bang</a></p>http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235395337http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235395337Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:55:41 -0800“When we showed up, CMGI owned half the company and David owned less than 35%. The rest was in...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235267733http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235267733Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:11:12 -0800“Because successful startups are built by teams of owners, not by one individual. No matter...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235259979http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235259979Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:01:18 -0800“That’s a good question James. You would hope that Series A investors who insisted that...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235253547http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235253547Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:53:07 -0800just loved Arnaud Rebotini - The Swamp Waltz (Low Mode remix) http://awe.sm/7MF5 on @hypemhttp://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235246082http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235246082Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:42:58 -0800just loved Xaphoon Jones - Testify (Radiohead Vs Kanye West ft. Lupe Fiasco) http://awe.sm/7MR5 on...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235246081http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235246081Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:42:57 -0800<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5447684&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5447684&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5447684&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Expression Palette on Vimeo (via <a href="http://vimeo.com/5447684" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>)</p>http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235236078http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235236078Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:28:46 -0800“What stage is your business at? Early stage you should not generally need to be bringing in...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235233878http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235233878Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:25:36 -0800“I have been thinking about this a lot recently, in particular how much options are actually...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235226463http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235226463Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:14:42 -0800“As Warren Buffets partner Charlie Munger said in a famous speech at UCLA: ” In any...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235222408http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235222408Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:08:58 -0800“The second point I’ll make is that the option pool request needs to be reasonable and...http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235103105http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/235103105Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:18:01 -0800http://twitpic.com/oexsk - Don’t ask …http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/234420915http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/234420915Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:03:43 -0800http://twitpic.com/oej9b - Communication …http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/234331577http://brooksjordan.tumblr.com/post/234331577Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:21:04 -0800