December 2009
November 2009
“Let me put it this way. I started broke and I’m now a billionaire. And I never...”
– Liberty Media’s Malone To Heckler (via rickyv)
gbattle sez:
John Malone is probably one of the savviest businessmen in media, period. When my former boss, Bob Johnson, had the idea in the late 70’s to start Black Entertainment Television and shopped the idea, John Malone loaned him the $250K he...
“Top tier Web publishers–already wary of ad networks and exchanges–are growing...”
– Web Publishers Fear Agencies’ Demand-Side Platforms (via everythingismedia)
Silliness. People are worrying about the wrong thing. Your product works or it doesn’t. You offer value or you don’t.
A roach just crawled up my leg at work.
evangotlib:
ohhleary:
Disgusting. We just got rid of the infestation of gnats that we’ve had for weeks, and now this.
I am never going on a sales call to MEC again.
Yes you are.
“The skills that once commanded $4 for every shiny word are far less valuable at...”
– The Media Equation - For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise - NYTimes.com (via heyitsnoah)
“A quick audit of your site to write better calls to action will provide a great...”
– “Click Here” Makes Me Rip My Hair Out | FutureNow’s GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog (via hiten)
Blip could certainly use such an audit.
(via mikehudack)
Just don’t mistake getting them to click with going on to do a series of actions or becoming a more desirable type of user. Dog knows...
Anyone want to live blog the Grey Cup with me?
ohhleary:
k-troll:
It’s on ESPN360. Roughriders/Alouettes!
FUCK YOU TIME WARNER.
Time Warner is too fucking cheap to give us access to ESPN360. And fucking SNY, which has shown live CFL games all season, isn’t showing the Grey Cup live.
ESPN already charges the highest sub fees in the industry. Blame them for charging too much, don’t blame Time Warner Cable for not paying up. ...
“A quick audit of your site to write better calls to action will provide a great...”
– “Click Here” Makes Me Rip My Hair Out | FutureNow’s GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog (via hiten)
Blip could certainly use such an audit.
Content Revenue Models: Pay Per View vs. Ad... →
soupsoup:
Question posted to Martin A. Nisenholtz, senior vice president, digital operations for The New York Times Company. (via @cvvalencia)
Q. Do you see online newspaper and magazine content becoming pay-per-view (or pay-per-month, etc.) in the future? With newspaper and media revenues declining, we hear that idea thrown out every once in a while as a way to stabilize the industry. What...
Dave Winer has started using Tumblr →
john:
mikehudack:
caterpillarcowboy:
jonathan-deamer:
(He’s the godfather of RSS/podcasting, an Internet veteran and one of the smartest thinkers on the future of communication and the web that I know of).
Winer mostly uses Tumblr to talk about RSS Cloud, his contribution to the real-time web.
This is a big deal. It telegraphs acceptance by the Old Guard.
Agreed this is a big win...
Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7 →
spytap:
evangotlib:
biteofpythias:
We’re the NSA. And windows 7 was our idea.
Fuck man…I almost can’t even get angry anymore. Of course this happened, and the reasons behind why the NSA would want what I’m immediately interpreting as “backdoor access” to Windows 7 are too numerous to count here. Could it be a generous move by the NSA to help Windows 7 enhance security? I guess it’s...
Lying & Entrepreneurship
mokoyfman:
Jonah Lehrer wrote a very interesting piece recently entitled Lying & Creativity. In it, he makes the profound point that learning to contain our inclination to confabulate, or lie, is fundamentally at odds with our urge to create.
Quoting Picasso, Lehrer writes:
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” From the perspective of the...
Dave Winer has started using Tumblr →
caterpillarcowboy:
jonathan-deamer:
(He’s the godfather of RSS/podcasting, an Internet veteran and one of the smartest thinkers on the future of communication and the web that I know of).
Winer mostly uses Tumblr to talk about RSS Cloud, his contribution to the real-time web.
This is a big deal. It telegraphs acceptance by the Old Guard.
“If Ms. Totten and Mr. Hirshberg are correct, the potential for health care...”
– Health Care Savings May Start in Employee Diets - NYTimes.com (via evangotlib)
This is just simple common sense. Saving healthcare will start with individuals improving their behavior. (via jayparkinsonmd)
It’s way too early to be thinking about this, but I want my next business to be in...
“During the hiatus, many advertisers, including sports-apparel maker Nike, still...”
– Woods Cancels Meeting With Police, Says Accident Was His Fault - WSJ.com
Wow! TV viewership of golf dropped almost 50% with Tiger’s absence. Talk about moving the needle. Tiger has to be the highest impact athlete for his sport as any, ever. (via mokoyfman)
“The most disappointing answer is when they say “Oh, we’ll just make it viral.”...”
– Redeye VC: Let’s just add in a little virality (via fred-wilson)
The challenge of getting audience/distribution/customers for web services is so hard it’s the #1 reason to release early. If you release late you could spend a year of money on a product you could have found out a year ago doesn’t...
“The Bush administration led a campaign to erase the Food Stamp program’s stigma,...”
– The Safety Net - Across U.S., Food Stamp Use Soars and Stigma Fades - Series - NYTimes.com (via tedr)
“Customer acquisition (also called distribution) is the number one challenge...”
– Redeye VC: Let’s just add in a little virality (via hiten)
Trifle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The best metaphor available for building a business or a technology. Businesses, technology platforms and English deserts are best built with layer upon layer.
Reporter: How did you find America?
John: Turned left at Greenland.
Reporter: Has success changed your life?
George: Yes.
Reporter: Are you a mod or a rocker?
Ringo: Um, no. I'm a mocker.
Reporter: Do you think these haircuts have come to stay?
Ringo: Well, this one has. You know, it's stuck on good and proper now.
Reporter: What would you call that hairstyle you're wearing?
George: Arthur.
Reporter: What do you call that collar?
Ringo: A collar.
Reporter: Do you often see your father?
Paul: No, actually, we're just good friends.
“For the president’s sake, let’s hope that this Thanksgiving,...”
– Why Obama supporters ought to count their blessings. - By Bruce Reed - Slate Magazine
If you’re not opted into both preroll and overlay on blip come December 1 you’re going to lose a lot of money.
Lorem Ipsum
allang:
clientsfromhell:
I had a client review a design, and all the textarea’s were filled with ‘Lorem Ipsum’. Reply: It looks good, but we don’t understand it.
Me: What don’t you understand?
Reply: The text. What language is that anyway?
Me: It doesn’t mean anything, it’s to fill up the textareas. Just focus on the design, not the content.
Reply, after a day or two: Could you please...
NY TIMES: No longer a civil rights footnote -... →
asprettyasasong:
inothernews:
On that supercharged day in 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., she rode her way into history books, credited with helping to ignite the civil rights movement.
But there was another woman, named Claudette Colvin, who refused to be treated like a substandard citizen on one of those Montgomery buses —...
“J.Crew Group Inc., the U.S. clothing retailer, rose 7.7 percent after the close...”
– J.Crew Climbs as Quarterly Profit More Than Doubles, Sales Rise - Bloomberg.com (via tedr)
“I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to...”
– Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam (via hiten)
The Bill Gates Wealth Index →
adamiss:
One way to examine this sort of wealth is to compare it to yours. Consider an average American of modest wealth. Perhaps she has a net worth of $70,000. Mr. Gates’ worth is 800,000 times larger. Which means that if something costs $100,000 to her, to Bill it’s as though it costs 12 cents. You can work out the right multiplier for your own net worth.
So for example, you might think a...
“The 2,074-page Senate health care bill would take 34 hours to read cover to...”
– Health bill could get 34-hour reading in Senate - Washington Times
DMCA is punishing me for using my own material
kellysutton:
Alright, so I run a Web site named HackCollege. It’s a blog for college students. We’ve also produced video segments in the past.
While we could take the “We’re poor college students” approach to music and images, we have always tried to take the high road and never use copyrighted materials in our videos. Several of our videos have recently been invited to participate in the...
“In June of 2009, the SEC announced that it had finally figured out what to do...”
– Great Henry Blodget post on the ongoing (and they forever will be, unfortunately for all of us) personal attacks he gets. (via innonate)
Just finished up our board meeting
Good stuff.
