May 2009
I’m at Pig & Whistle with @tomreynolds.
April 2009
“Although people who look like Westerners are turned away immediately at the...”
– Chinese spy museum: No foreigners allowed - China- msnbc.com
“A new phone from Palm called the Palm Eos is likely to debut on the AT&T...”
– Palm Eos: The Successor to Palm Pre? | GadgetLab
“Ninety percent of clients will be happy with your first draft. Five percent will...”
– Sabrina Dent, talking at FOWD (via nikf) (via iamdanw)
Expectations: When to be automagic, and when it... →
(via iamdanw)
“Since January, the New Hampshire Senate has been making history as the first...”
– Feministe » New Hampshire! (via ericmortensen)
Wow. That’s fantastic.
Recommendations are being overhauled
bliptv:
We released a new recommendations feature on Tuesday afternoon. The reason for the feature is simple: we want to get more shows more viewers.
After having the feature out in the wild for a day, though, we’ve decided that we can do a better job with it. We need to make it clearer how you can find more episodes of the same show you’re watching. We need to make sharing in the “endcap”...
“The ad networks that are doing well are “demand fullfillment”...”
– Facebook Talks Ad Network Plans
MediaVest: 50% Of Ad Spending Going Online →
“Though it has all the trappings of an Old School spin-off or Jason Segel movie...”
– Full Frontal Nudity is a College Sport in “Streak to Win” (via seantice)
I’m at Tom and Jerry’s / 288 (288 Elizabeth St, at Houston, NYC) .
How Wolfram Alpha May Trump Google →
hilker:
“This engine is meant to go live in two or three weeks; with it, you’ll be able to enter “GDP Germany Japan” and get not a list of Web pages, but comparative charts on the economic output of those two nations. Or you can enter “GATACTTCA” and find the spots on the human genome where that sequence appears.”
[h/t devin]
Watchdavemorin:
CollegeHumor wins again.
Real Life Twitter - CollegeHumor Video
“A colleague recently boasted to me that his best student was doing his...”
– End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com
“The United States has no clear military policy about how the nation might...”
– U.S. Needs to Clarify Cyberwar Plans, Panel Says - NYTimes.com
For Disovering Videos Before Digg →
fimoculous:
Two new “video discovery” things: Nizmlab & Reddit.tv. See also: Twitmatic.
“Startups are inherently chaos. As a founder you need to prepare yourself to...”
– Preparing for Chaos - the Life of a Startup « Steve Blank (via datainsightsideas)
Bible.
Do I Need to Carry a Balance to Get Good Credit? →
heyitsnoah:
I remember when someone first said this to me, I was in college and DJing and the bartender was giving me financial advice. His argument was that if you pay your balance every month in full then you never build any credit. I remember thinking it was absurd at the time (and told him that), but it’s stuck with me. Anyway, after having the conversation again a few weeks ago and...
Recommendations
FYI to blip users who follow this blog:
bliptv:
tanya77:
bliptv:
Yesterday we also launched a new feature: in-player recommendations. The recommendations are powered by Strands.
Love the new feature, but I wish there was an option included in there to actually re-watch the previously watched video. All I see are the suggested videos and no opportunity to re-watch nor to go see more...
“It’s like someone coming up to you, sticking a gun to your head for 15 seconds,...”
– Wall St. worker Bill Privett has the best quote on the incident.
The Day After Military Planes Flew Too Low Over NYC - Gothamist
(via peterwknox)
“A half-hour into the meeting, an aide entered the Oval Office and slipped Mr....”
– “Obama’s Stand in Auto Crisis Shows Early Resolve,” NYT (via barthel)
“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out...”
– Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, (R-Crazy)
Only it happened in ‘76 under President Ford.
(via notthatkindagay) (via robot-heart-politics)
I think she’s invoking a plague narrative. I think that might genuinely be the least-crazy explanation for this statement. America elects a Democrat. God sends...
“3) The Kindle. Electronic readers like the Kindle are going to have a huge...”
– From a list on “The Future of Publishing” from The Rumpus. Also see their coverage about a new on-demand book printing machine. I’m really loving The Rumpus, lately. (via glynnis) (via peterwknox)
“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via whitecloth, kari-shma) (via zadi) (via elspethjane)
We just did a major new release over at blip. No one can see the biggest part yet. We’re going to be making it available to a few people at a time, with more people getting access every two weeks.
Is anyone surprised by Portfolio's shuttering?
No Surprise: In the Digital Era, Territorial... →
msg:
The Labels will wage war on themselves.
heyitsnoah:
catbird:
Sony Music France wrote to tell me to take down a Passion Pit song I posted yesterday (“remove those copyrighted files”).
I am not taking it down.
The MP3 was introduced to the internet yesterday by the band’s US label, Frenchkiss, who premiered it on Pitchfork and then urged people to “go download it.”
This is not an...
“I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the...”
– Arlen Specter. Oooh, burn! (via peterfeld) (via soupsoup)
Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on... →
zoya:
reminded me of Last.fm’s decision to charge users who live outside the US, UK, and Germany, where ad revenue can cover the cost of the service.
Ordering pick-up from la esquina
Allan: I'd like four medium burgers with cheese, please.
Waitress: They're all one size.
“But chatter about the problem spilled over into Twitter, whose expansive...”
– Ignore Twitter? Major brands learn they’d better respond — and quick - Los Angeles Times
We’re doing a little case study on Domino’s and its recent PR crisis, and I especially liked this line from the LA Times. Look at what’s going on right now with swine flu, and you’ll see how media in all forms...
“FDR, too, had a banner 100 Days during which he established the foundations of...”
– Obama shines bright in first 100 days - Entertainment News, Peter Bart, Media - Variety