When I heard that Fisher Stevens was coming by the office to pick up some artwork, did I ask if he would bring his Oscar just so I could take a photo with it and post it to Tumblr?
Yes, yes I did.
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If the cable providers made any effort to deliver extra value for consumers instead of cable companies, they’d face a lot less competition. The difference between this mentality and that of Jeff Bezos is perfect.
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Squashed: On those Texas School Board hearings
robot-heart-politics quotes Texas Hearing Considers Deeper Conservative Stamp on Textbooks - NYTimes.com:
“Dr. McLeroy still has 10 months to serve and he, along with rest of the religious conservatives on the board, have vowed to put their mark on the guidelines for social studies texts.For…
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lessin: relatively sure I just figured out where Kontami got "up up down down left right left right b a select start" from ... it is in ender's game
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Continuations: Investor Signaling (Adding to Chris Dixon)
Chris Dixon had a great post yesterday about “the importance of investor signaling in venture pricing” that every entrepreneur should read. Leaving aside the classical economics strawman from the first paragraph (does anybody think that classical economics would apply to a small numbers…
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Rafer sez:
Why not Flash? Because video needs to be a first-class html media citizen that can be programmatically mashed up however and whenever. Click through and walk the edge, baby.
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We’re saying farewell to Flickr. After four years of cross-posting episode thumbnails to the photo sharing service, we’ve decided to terminate the feature. It’s currently only used by a tiny fraction of blip users and is no longer particularly relevant to blip.tv or Flickr.
We will be terminating Flickr cross-posting on March 29th. Please contact support/at/blip.tv or support.blip.tv with any questions.
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Hudack BINGO
The guys in the office put together a BINGO game for my phone calls and meetings.
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foursquare: Happy birthday, foursquare.
It was exactly a year ago when Naveen and I flipped the switch on foursquare. It was the day before we headed down to SXSW - back when we were still feeling 50/50 on whether people would think the “let’s turn real life into a game!” idea was really interesting or whether they’d laugh us out of…
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