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December 2011
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Continuations: Tech Tuesday: Programming (A Start) →
I’ve been getting interested in learning more about development recently, and Albert’s post popped up at the perfect time! For anyone who’s never written any code, it’s a great introduction to what “writing code” actually means.
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Maybe I should have started the whole Tech Tuesday series with a post on programming since that’s why computers were...
November 2011
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“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via anorangeinwinter)
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Psychic Income
I learned a new phrase last week: “psychic income.” It refers to the intangible benefits one derives from work - the energy and inspiration that comes from doing what you do. I love this phrase because it really conveys the value of passion. It’s not optional - it’s income. It is essential.
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Why social media?
A Pew Study out this week tells us something most of us would have assumed naturally: The majority (66%) of Americans who use social media do it to stay in touch with friends and family members. Interestingly, 18% of older Americans (54+) use social media to conenct with new people who share similar interests, vs. 10% of the younger group.
For all the fretting about how the internet is changing...
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Unplugged
I unplugged yesterday. Not 100%, but close to it. I stayed away from my computer and focused on the gorgeous weather, errands I needed to run, and life away from the internet.
It felt awfully good then, but it feels even better now that I’m back at my desk. I feel refreshed, energetic, and looking forward to my Silicon Alley Insider emails rather than overwhelmed by them. I’m more...
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“Always have your to-do list. And then execute the shit out of it.”
– #BrandsConf
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Daily Steve Jobs
I’m looking forward to reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, but in the meantime I enjoyed this ReadWriteWeb post that gives a glimpse into some of the book’s key lessons.
Steve was “a magician genius:”
He was, indeed, an example of what the mathematician Mark Kac called a magician genius, someone whose insights come out of the blue and require...
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Twitter Sins
This list of Twitter sins from Hubspot is great:
Thou shalt not spam.
Thou shalt not drift. (AKA: Show up and be active—I’ve been remiss on this blog, hence today’s post…)
Thou shalt not blatantly self-promote.
Thou shalt not use only 140 characters.
Thou shalt not bash.
I’d add a couple more to the list:
Thou shalt not ghost-tweet.
I’ve heard folks on...
October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Transformative Change That Begins Online
Union Square Venture’s Albert Wenger posed a fascinating question recently on his blog: “What is your favorite example of something that is already happening on the Internet today, that is a clear indication of the massive transformation to come?”
It may not be as new to us as other trends, but to my mind one of the most astonishing recent uses of the internet has been social...
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June 2011
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Continuations: Curious About Circles →
Albert offers some great thoughts about why Google+’s Circles are so interesting. In particular, if Google+ takes off, I think Circles will likely make people feel even safer sharing information online than they already do in Facebook’s walled garden—and as we know from countless trend pieces, people (in particular young folks) are prone to oversharing, thinking they are 100%...
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Mobile App Use Tops Web Browsing
Yes, it’s happened, according to a new report by Flurry, posted on Read Write Web. Money quote: “In less than 3 years, mobile apps, and primarily those on iPhone and Android, now surpass both desktop and mobile Web use.”
The Flurry report does count games as apps—and given that almost half of app usage is attributed to games, that fact definitely shapes the data....
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Steve Rubel: ¶ Tumblr is the Next Great Social... →
Love this: Tumblr is “a social network for content.”
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Brent Simmons sees a natural evolution for blogs…
“New blogging systems like Posterous and Tumblr seem to be pretty popular, and they fill a nice middle ground: short content, easy sharing, social stuff. They’re cool.
But try to imagine replacing Daring Fireball, Scripting News, Apple Outsider, Shawn Blanc, or any...
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“Online, words themselves — once silent and still — are suddenly springing to...”
– Megan Garber’s “Is Twitter Writing, or is it Speech?” via @NiemanLab (via irisblasi)
May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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Continuations: NY Times Pay Fence and Kickstarter →
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Yesterday, the New York Times announced its long awaited pay fence. Today, we announced our investment in Kickstarter. These two represent different models for sustaining efforts that are socially important but are having their previous financial models disrupted by the Internet:…
February 2011
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January 2011
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“Our infrastructure used to be the best, but our lead has slipped. South Korean...”
– Barack Obama
Obama to Propose Extending Partial Freeze on Domestic Spending - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
“I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as...”
– Andy Borowitz (via kateoplis) Accessible, flawless, & reasonably priced - what all health care should be. (via buffleheadcabin)
December 2010
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“The Internet we know today exists only because, until now, there have been no...”
– Internet Access Should Be Application-Agnostic - Union Square Ventures (via garychou)
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WatchChex Mix is practically a plot point.
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Continuations: Google Buying Groupon is a Flawed... →
Really interesting perspective from Albert here. The businesses are fundamentally different. It feels to me like part of Google’s struggle, as it continues to fight off Facebook (and Apple), to figure out how it can tap into Web 2.0—to be more human, less engineer. I’m not trying to conflate people-on-the-ground with running a social network, but to my mind there’s a common...
November 2010
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Continuations: Mark Zuckerberg as Bill Gates →
Literally had a conversation with a colleague today about how Facebook seems to be growing, innovating, and dominating our conversations—and Google, by comparison, has dropped off. Albert’s take below is really illuminating and, I think, spot-on.
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Listening to Mark Zuckerberg yesterday at W2Summit was fascinating. First, I have seen Mark’s performance on stage go ...
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