May 2009
21 posts
U2 Manager: Free Is The Enemy Of Good; And It's... →
Another great headline from Mike. I never get tired of these.
May 29th
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“the major content businesses of the world and the most talented creators of that...”
– Michael Lynton: Guardrails for the Internet: Preserving Creativity Online Hilarious!
May 26th
May 22nd
“If I get one more e-mail defending physical formats, I’m gonna throw my...”
–  Lefsetz
May 20th
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“Reiner pulled up the graphic on his handheld device and saw that the patient was...”
– Doctors and Medical Students Embrace Smartphones - washingtonpost.com
May 19th
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Google to Newspapers: “Have You Heard of ROBOTS.TXT?” «  The SiliconANGLE EPIC dismantling of the newspaper industry’s whining.
May 18th
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May 18th
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“In a test run April 23, an exclusive-to-Twitter promotion brought in 15% of the...”
– Twitter Proves Its Worth as a Killer App for Local Businesses - Advertising Age - Digital
May 18th
Capitalism 2.0 →
Obligatory Umair video du jour…
May 18th
“The cacophony of the crowd erases the past and affirms the present. It started...”
– John Borthwick on “Distribution … now” This is just a small piece from a meaty and insightful essay by John Borthwick (Betaworks/Fotolog/AOL-fame). Well worth a read, but I particularly liked this chunk.  People say “The Internet Never Forgets,” and it’s generally true that if something is...
May 17th
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“Google’s products (and profit) would look a lot different if, for example,...”
– Bruce W. Sanford and Bruce D. Brown - Laws That Could Save Journalism - washingtonpost.com These guys are ganster[s]
May 17th
Fun with the Broadsight Real Time Search engine →
May 16th
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in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word... →
If you don’t think this is cool, we can’t be friends. Just kidding.  But not really ;-)
May 12th
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May 12th
Discovery Is The New Cocaine - Going Beyond... →
Some great nuggets on community design and service design in this one.
May 10th
Marketing to Customer Networks: the New Way to... →
This is one of the few articles of the last 18 months that gives you a practical framework of how to approach large scale communications in the networked world…
May 7th
G20 police officer said he wanted to 'beat up... →
This is sooooooo much deeper than “don’t say anything stupid of FB/Twitter/etc” Also see: my entry previous to this, which links to this same article, and gives more context
May 4th
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“people were discussing the story and linking to copies of the documents anyway –...”
– Simonsays: Social Media: Changing Organisations One Crisis at a Time Epic piece on PR, five stars for invoking my all time fav, The Wealth of Networks
May 4th
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“Shows Twitter client usage for all accounts tracked by @twitstat.”
– Twitter Clients web 27%, all the other stuff 73%
May 4th
“Once a company devises a great product, [Steve Jobs] says, it has a monopoly in...”
– Daring Fireball: Regarding the Verizon and ‘iPhone Lite’ Rumors
May 4th
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“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because...”
– Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable «  Clay Shirky Was just emailing this to a friend…gotta love this pithy li’l remark.
May 2nd