December 2009
10 posts
“Everybody views it as a terminal career decision if you get it wrong,” said...”
– Netflix Envoy Pitches Online Films to Wary Studios (Update1) - Bloomberg.com Great article…it’s tough to make changes when you’ve had it sooooo good. For a truly incredible look at the history of the film business and its various revenue models, I recommend The Big Picture by...
Dec 29th
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“The point is simple: assuming only x% of people will become active prosumers...”
– Umair Haque / Bubblegeneration Bubblegen posts are like fine wine
Dec 10th
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The contradiction inherent in the (Social... →
This is, like, the central thing going on in social media. Must read post.
Dec 9th
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Bruce Sterling on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Always worth watching
Dec 9th
Backstory on the Umair Haque hang, plus: why...
I had the distinct pleasure of spending a few hours with Umair Haque last week while he was in town for the Supernova conference.  This was pretty exciting for me as he has been a core inspiration for my intellectual and professional pursuits of the last 3+ years. I was first turned on to Umair’s work via Fred Wilson.  Once I read a few of Umair’s pieces on Bubblegeneration, I was...
Dec 7th
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The New York Times is at least 4 different papers...
cdixon: - commodity AP style news - bad summary reports on tech, finance, other topics by people who don’t seem to understand what they are talking about. - hit (krugman) or miss (dowd) Op-Ed - incredible actual reporting, like today’s article on how obama decided on his plan in afganistan + 1,000,000 points!!!!
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Worried About the Googlenet
continuations: Yesterday, I tweeted “welcome to the googlenet” and was asked to explain what I meant by that.  My tweet was about the announcement of Google DNS.  With Google DNS, you can now run pretty much entirely on a Google stack.  You fire up Chrome OS (or maybe just the Chrome browser), point DNS to Google, get your content from Google (e.g., music integrated into search results or...
Dec 5th
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“There’s a big question in the industry about what will be the dominant way...”
– Wow, this source is really on top of his game.  Good quote.  Great accomplishments at UMG. lol Incredibly unsurprising that this guy is a lawyer. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ax4zVVSzx8XM
Dec 5th
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Viddler.com - W2W’09 Keynote Richard MacManus ReadWriteWeb - Uploaded by UPW2W
Dec 3rd