August 2009
I’m at Tom and Jerry’s / 288 (288 Elizabeth St, at Houston, New York). http://bit.ly/1LRED
July 2009
What Were They Thinking? →
evangotlib:
azspot:
Everyone should have a hobby. Mine is collecting names of businesses that don’t make sense. Below are some real examples:
1. Icarus air Travel. Icarus only had one flight and it ended badly.
2. The Abelard School, a private academy. Abelard was best known for sleeping with a student.
3. Gandhi’s Fine Indian Cuisine. Gandhi was not a known to be a hearty eater or...
“In the midst of Q2 earnings season, and after the upfront season has passed,...”
– Jersey Fresh
Blip.TV’s New Deals Give Broadband Producers a Boost
“Approximately 61 percent of those aged 19-29 say they watch movies and TV shows...”
– Contentinople - Ryan Lawler - Report: Cord Cutters Tuning In to Online Video on the TV (via johnfitzpatrick) (via evangotlib)
I was on the phone with a guy from Comcast earlier today. Told him I cancelled my cable about three weeks ago.
“Each could remember what they felt the night Obama was elected. Their...”
– A look behind Obama’s declining poll numbers. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine
“If you spent just one minute reading every website in existence, you’d be kept...”
– How big is the internet? (via davidkaneda)
Blip.tv – On the Web and FiOS TV →
(via evangotlib)
“Newspapers that have been written off on the corporate expense account will no...”
– Paper Cuts for Conde Nast- New York Post
Just the opening salvo in an 11 week cost cutting exercise at Conde Nast, spearheaded by McKinsey.
I was a consultant a couple of years ago, engaged in a very similar exercise at different magazine company.
A magazine is not a typical corporate culture. ...
Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a...
(via katykelley)
Bill would restrict antibiotics in food animals →
squashed:
Support this bill. There is nothing wrong with giving some antibiotics to sick animals—but that’s not how they are used. Antibiotics are mixed in with animal feed preventatively. The overuse of antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistant bacteria that will affect both humans and animals.
In other words, because the feed lots are so crowded and unhealthy that they think it is necessary...
“But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House...”
– W.H. makes CEOs pay for lunch - Eamon Javers - POLITICO.com
“The President chose Bud Light. Actually, he chose Bud, but he caved to...”
– Stephen Colbert on Beer Summit 2K9 (via virtualephemera) (via savingpaper) (via brooklynmutt) (via asprettyasasong)
The forecast in New York City calls for awesome...
It's Time to Scale Back the Security Mania
southpol:
David Ignatius:
The hyper-security has added as much to public fear (and annoyance) as to public safety. The Transportation Security Administration is so pervasive at airports that we forget how bizarre it is to see old ladies and pregnant mothers and 8-year-old kids frisked and searched as if they had just arrived from Waziristan. Does this really make sense? … Making trade-offs...
innonate:
oneone:
One things is for sure, local advertising is going to be solved in nyc
But will the solution in NYC be the solution in Cincinnati?
I’m at Cafe Select (212 Lafayette St, at Kenmare, New York). http://bit.ly/5CA1z
Anatomy of a feature →
davidkaneda:
Brent Simmons discusses the considerations and implementation of adding software features, even if they’re “20 second” programming changes. Great read.
peterfeld:
He might also mention $1 trillion on an entirely pointless war that got us nothing we ever needed. The Republicans have no objection to running up the deficit for health care, infrastructure and schools, as long as it’s in Iraq.
We're embracing metric time at blip
We’re introducing a bunch of new performance metrics, and we’re using metric time for many of them.
“A Boston cop insisted he was not a racist as he apologized for calling Harvard...”
– Boston cop Justin Barrett suspended for calling Henry Louis Gates a ‘jungle monkey’ (via nickdouglas)
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PowerPoint →
charitini:
peterfeld:
Funny item from the Harvard Business Review blog:
VOICEOVER: Imagine a world much like our own, but one where time has stopped and the workday stretches to infinity. In this world, one software program, written decades ago, has become the alpha and omega of every employee’s life. Such a world exists in: the PowerPoint Zone… INT. OFFICE — MONDAY MORNING. A NEW HIRE FRESH...
I’m at Cafe Select w/ @potatono @jaredklett. http://bit.ly/5CA1z
“What sticks in my head is Yahoo’s dominance in the content market. Check out...”
– Poor Yahoo, here’s a defense | VentureBeat (via tedr)
HSAs and Choice
innonate:
For the first time in my life, I don’t have Dental Insurance.
I do, however, have an HSA which can be used for all dental-related expenses.
Today, I went to my 6 month dentist appointment. At the start, they wanted to give me my yearly x-ray, and so — now that I’m in control of my medical expenses — I questioned the necessity of them.
In the end I decided to spring for the extra $50...
“Such moments of recognition, by individuals or small groups, have helped to...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Bright Lights, Big Internet - NYTimes.com
“THIS summer, as in so many summers gone by, young aspirants to the creative...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Bright Lights, Big Internet - NYTimes.com
“That’s because the America you grew up in… was segregated.”
– JON STEWART, responding to Sean Hannity saying that President Obama is “literally ripping apart the foundation of the America we knew and grew up in”, on The Daily Show (via inothernews) (via aodouls) (via explorers) (via kayrutledge)(via furrowedbrow) (via asprettyasasong)
“Reappointing Bernanke, who is from an opposing party, is a signal that such...”
– Tyler Cowen
I think this might be the most important factor and it will be interesting to see which way Obama goes.
(via mattlehrer)
“Curiously enough, what got Segway into this problem was that the company was...”
– The Trouble with the Segway
“Without the recalcitrant Danish government to impede them, Denmark’s...”
– Rescue of the Danish Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Did VoloMedia invent Podcasting? They claim they did, in late 2003. I’m...”
– Dave Winer
Will Curry and Winer bury the hatchet and firebomb VoloMedia’s offices?
(via ericmortensen)