March 2010
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How Twitter's @anywhere might kill the advertising...
Previous to the Evan Williams keynote at SXSW this week, there were rumors that Twitter was going to reveal a new “advertising platform” during the talk.  But after @anywhere was announced, there was universal disappointment. That disappointment is misplaced.  Semantics aside, @anywhere encapsulates the major threat social media poses to the advertising and marketing industries as...
Mar 20th
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Nurse Anesthetists salaries now surpass those of... →
jayparkinsonmd: Money of course drives everything in healthcare. The federal government has led the movement to systematically devalue primary care over the past two decades mostly by specialists influencing Medicare reimbursement rates. As a response, for the past decade, only about 5% of graduating medical residents pursued primary care— mostly because they feel like they should earn more...
Mar 20th
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“My proposal is this: if we could disaggregate the logs, while providing the...”
– Interview: Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. the Cloud Log - The H Open Source: News and Features He continues on in detail about using little $99 plug-in servers to create a P2P social networking service: And so, basically, what I am proposing is that we build a social networking stack based around the...
Mar 20th
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The economics behind why attending SXSWi is...
(Note: Revised this slightly following SXSWi’s conclusion; if you had a great time and feel ready to take over the world, this post may, in part, explain why that is ;-) John Furrier had a typically great post over on SiliconAngle on Friday, riffing on the latest Twitter research du jour. The original coverage on Mashable reports on the facts, but John expands on the larger point…and...
Mar 13th
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“Scientific specialisation is now so extreme that even people studying...”
–  The trouble with trusting complex science | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian Interesting take for sure
Mar 13th
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Mar 11th
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“But in the announcement about the HTC lawsuit, he has a different perspective:...”
– Would 2010 Steve Jobs Sue 1996 (Or 1984) Steve Jobs Over Patents? | Techdirt Nuff said on that.  See Fred Wilson/USV posts on software patents and startup litigation for the rest of the story.
Mar 4th