May 2011
yeahhhhhhhhhhbudddddddyyyyyyy asked: Hi Mike! I understand that your web company blip.GG now has an office in Los Angeles and that you now spend a lot of time in LA. So I guess my real question here is where is the best place to drink a ZEVON?
“You can make the Internet safe for Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, or you can make...”
– At the eG8, 20th century ideas clashed with the 21st century economy | radar.oreilly.com | Readability (via rickwebb)
“Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom, leaking water, and my job is to...”
– Gil Amelio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Jay Allard comes to mind: the visionary who convinced Bill that the internet was...”
– It’s time for Bill Gates to come back to Microsoft. - gdgt
Ballmer is a disaster on the order of Gil Amelio.
'Scores defect' from Gaddafi's army →
aljazeera:
Eight high-ranking officers and 120 military officials “abandon” armed forces amid growing pressure on Libyan leader.
Great news. I suspect some of this is CIA, MI6 or DGSE influence. Great job, guys!
“You can’t fake a lack of vision forever. When Microsoft is ready to come...”
– It’s time for Bill Gates to come back to Microsoft. - gdgt
Tomorrow's going to be crazy...
Blip’s got another announcement tomorrow. This is going to be fun. Today’s going to be crazy too.
Memo to all NYC blip staff
From: Mike Hudack To: NYC Staff Re: Please do not turn the bathroom lights off during normal business hours
Hey guys,
Please do not turn bathroom lights off during normal business hours.
There have been multiple occasions of people in stalls suddenly finding themselves in the dark.
Remember that the bathroom lights (like all of the lights in the office) are low energy fluorescents. ...
“A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say...”
– Kate Moss (via the-front-row)
“I hadn’t been to the cinema since 1964 when Dr Zhivago came out.”
– My dad
“My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my...”
– Abortion saved my life - Salon.com (via nickdouglas)
Really hard to read but important.
alinutzav:
Here are 14 of the most interesting trends identified by the Startup Genome Report, some of which are intuitive and some of which may come as a surprise. Among them? Investors may be less help than they think. Take a look:
Founders that learn are more successful: Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more...
Soup: Not cool Urban Outfitters, not cool. →
imakeshinythings:
One of my lovely customers sent me a message today with this link.
And here is my United/World of Love line:
My heart sank a little bit. The World/United States of Love line that I created is one of the reasons that I was able to quit my full-time job….
Really, really poor form.
Mike Hudack: For those who don't know what "ad... →
rickwebb:
mikehudack:
Let’s define “ad hominem” because some people don’t understand what it means.
Here’s the definition from Wikipedia:
An ad hominem (Latin: “to the man”), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person…
Let’s not forget the all-too-common trap of “this ad hominem is justified.” It is kind of...
wocowoco asked: Hey, I saw your post on teachers and really thought it was interesting. I certainly agree with you on most of your points, but was wondering; how would we be able to pay for increasing teacher's pay as much as you suggested while still keeping education a public commodity? Also, we need a LOT of teachers. Do you think it would be possible to keep such a high standard (I'm assuming...
Old Jews Telling Jokes: the Audiobook just won the... →
evangotlib:
spiegelman:
This is the award given by the Audio Publishers Association. We beat Jon Stewart, David Sedaris, and the Shit My Dad Says guy. Am I psyched? I am psyched. We produced this thing a year ago, in a recording studio in Brooklyn that this guy ran out of his apartment.
And not to take it TOO FAR or anything, but I’m an award-winning record producer. NBD.
CONGRATS!
“Unlike blogging, where you spend time thinking carefully about what you say in...”
– The Manila Bulletin: Retention, self-expression, Tumblr
Maraming salamat! (via staff)
Watchbliptv:
blip on blip #57: This week Annie chats with Brandon Werner, a Designer on our Creative Services team, about graphic design, show images, and his funny web series: Laughing Historically.
We also feature a few of the awesome Show Pages that Brandon designed: Chad Vader and Ask a Ninja! You can find Brandon’s awesome design tips for show assets at our Knowledge Base.
New episodes of blip...
Yelling Past One Another
asonnenberg:
I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about how people formulate their opinions; from the most mundane one-off thoughts, to the political positions they passionately defend, to the judgments that can make or break relationships. Yes, this ramble can be applied to the debate over WikiLeaks, but it’s certainly not the only, nor primary matter that got me thinking along these lines....
For those who don't know what "ad hominem" means
Let’s define “ad hominem” because some people don’t understand what it means.
Here’s the definition from Wikipedia:
An ad hominem (Latin: “to the man”), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person advocating the premise. The ad hominem is normally described as a...
Someone is wrong on the Internet!
Yesterday I posted a single sentence to my Tumblr. It read “More people would become teachers if incompetence got you fired and excellence was rewarded.”
It was pretty much intended as a throwaway line. Just a thought. But it caught fire. The post so far has 99 notes. Some people have responded with really good and well reasoned posts that I largely agree with. Others were...
“It’s not that Obama is a socialist born somewhere other than Hawaii, or that he...”
– James Carville, CNN (via stevewoolf)
Why the Rich Love High Unemployment →
prostheticknowledge:
In the boardrooms of corporate America, profits aren’t everything - they are the only thing. A JPMorgan research report concludes that the current corporate profit recovery is more dependent on falling unit-labor costs than during any previous expansion. At some level, corporate executives are aware that they are lowering workers’ living standards, but their decisions are...
More people would become teachers if incompetence...
placesweusedtogo:
pareene:
placesweusedtogo:
osmium:
mikehudack:
pareene:
ninety9:
youngmanhattanite:
Would more people become firefighters if the same were true? They have the same type of seniority system as teachers. Last hired, first fired. I’d like to see stats correlating “bad teachers” with student performance. My fairly informed hunch is, there aren’t any. However, there...
More people would become teachers if incompetence...
pareene:
ninety9:
youngmanhattanite:
Would more people become firefighters if the same were true? They have the same type of seniority system as teachers. Last hired, first fired. I’d like to see stats correlating “bad teachers” with student performance. My fairly informed hunch is, there aren’t any. However, there are MANY studies showing correlation between the socio-economic makeup of a...
wreckandsalvage asked: Curious why you switched away from Semantic? Although I do really like Effector. -Q
More people would become teachers if incompetence...
youngmanhattanite:
mikehudack:
“Money is a human creation. It is nothing but a number. Most of it is simply accounting entries in computer files. It has no existence, reality, or value outside the human mind. It is extraordinary that we, a supposedly intelligent species that prides itself on creating a great civilization based on popular democratic self-rule, allow money, a system of accounting...
“Money is a human creation. It is nothing but a number. Most of it is simply...”
– David Korten (via azspot)
Amen. (via blakewhitman)
Solve the problem.