February 2012
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“So if you’re blessed with the talent, utilize it to the fullest, be true...”
– Blackalicious - Deception
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“Focused. I’m a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best...”
– Mos Def
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Reading: The Ciphers of Social Media
Kevin Kelly does a fascinating deep dive into the 500,000 people following him on Google+.
His question: how many of them are real? The results are unsurprising.
To my astonishment over 560,000 people have put me in their Google+ circles. That is over half a million strangers who want to hear what I say on Google+. That crowd is far greater than the number of people subscribing to Wired...
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Looking for The Next Great Social Network
I mean, imma let you finish, but Facebook = social.
Facebook is, without a doubt, the big dog in how the world is and will continue to be connected through social media.
My question is simple: What’s next? Who will challenge the throne?
Ok, yes, there are people that reject FB or don’t get tremendous value out of using Facebook to connect their world. I know. But let’s not...
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Reading: Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid... →
Last April, Gamestop Corp. (GME) opened a store on Facebook to generate sales among the 3.5 million-plus customers who’d declared themselves “fans” of the video game retailer. Six months later, the store was quietly shuttered.
Hustle with purpose. Know why something is important. Don’t build for the sake of building. Money quote:
“It was basically just another place to shop for all...
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– Alan Kay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
– John Wooden, winner of 10 national titles.
Reading: The Guts of a New Machine - NYTimes.com →
Two years ago this month, Apple Computer released a small, sleek-looking device it called the iPod. A digital music player, it weighed just 6.5 ounces and held about 1,000 songs. There were small MP3 players around at the time, and there were players that could hold a lot of music. But if the crucial equation is ”largest number of songs” divided by ”smallest physical...
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Reading: The Hazards of Duke - Magazine - The... →
NO MATTER WHAT your opinion of the now notorious online “thesis” of the recent Duke graduate Karen Owen—a comprehensive and often pornographic report on her sexual encounters with 13 athletes, most of them lacrosse players—you have to admit that it was a terrible PowerPoint.
That program is intended for creating a visual accompaniment to a lecture, keeping audience and speaker on track by...
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Reading: New Statesman - "The vagabond king" →
When 25-year-old Valentine Strasser seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992, he became the world’s youngest head of state. Today he lives with his mother and spends his days -drinking gin by the roadside. What went wrong?
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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
– Albert Einstein
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Reading: The Boy Who Heard Too Much - David... →
It began, as it always did, with a phone call to 911. “Now listen here,” the caller demanded, his voice frantic. “I’ve got two people here held hostage, all right? Now, you know what happens to people that are held hostage? It’s not like on the movies or nothing, you understand that?”
“OK,” the 911 operator said.
“One of them...
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Reading: The Zuckerberg Tax - NYT - David Miller →
Consider the case of Steven P. Jobs. After rejoining Apple in 1997, Mr. Jobs never sold a single Apple share for the rest of his life, and therefore never paid a penny of tax on the over $2 billion of Apple stock he held at his death. Now his widow can sell those shares without paying any income tax on the appreciation before his death. She would have to pay taxes only on the increase in value...
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Reading: Siri Is Only The Beginning | TechCrunch →
Dag Kittlaus was co-founder and CEO at Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010.
For decades, Hollywood has been portraying machines that humans can converse with, delegate tasks to, and command. Remember the HAL 9000, KITT the car, COMPUTER from Star Trek, or even the brilliantly conceived and visualized Apple “Knowledge Navigator” from over 20 years ago? The day is dawning.
Hello...
Facebook Graffiti Artist Could be Worth $500... →
Not a bad bet. He believed in Sean Parker and Zuck.
January 2012
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It's finally basketball season. KU is going for... →
The favorite: There are four remaining undefeated teams in college basketball, and two of them — Baylor and Missouri — reside in the Big 12. Still, until they’re dethroned, the Kansas Jayhawks are the favorites to win the league.
Big man Thomas Robinson has put up monster numbers for Kansas.
Look, this is clearly the worst team Bill Self has had since arriving in Lawrence in...
December 2011
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“Realistically speaking, there are certain people who will never be able to lead...”
– Spare Me From “Product Guys” | TechCrunch
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Brian Phillips searches for Squinky in Stillwater... →
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November 2011
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“Fast food involves both hideously violent economies of scale and sad, sad end...”
– [A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage via Longreads]
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's new book is height of... →
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A Personal Appeal TO Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales... →
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“Famous fan: Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya, who owns half of the Houston Dynamo,...”
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“As the PS 2 worries spread, the musketeers decided to create their own console,...”
– The making of the Xbox: How Microsoft unleashed a video game revolution (part 1) | VentureBeat
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New Strategy for Google: Velocity and Execution
Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship - NYT - Claire Miller
Mr. Page, Google’s co-founder and former chief executive, who returned to the top job in April, is making changes large and small. He dropped more than 25 projects, saying they were not popular enough. He masterminded Google’s biggest deal by billions, the $12.5 billion Motorola Mobility bid, a bold move that positions the...
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Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
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Given the way my uncle died havin a drink directly after his funeral just didnt seem right so I went for a walk instead. One of them downtowns where all there is is stores. Came across a store was a big cube. Two stories tall and all silver. There was folks outside...
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Rap Genius Plans to Explain The Meaning Of Rock,... →
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October 2011
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Mexican club replace players’ names with Twitter... →
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Joe Posnanski » Posts Game Six « →
The second, though, was the team trailing at any given moment. In other words, I have spent more or less my whole life rooting for comebacks. Maybe you have too? When I was 10, I had no real understanding about anything but I already had a vivid understanding of the calculus of the comebacks. A football team down 17 could score, onside kick, score again, onside kick again, and kick a field goal...
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The internet is for...computers?
Internet traffic is increasingly shifting away from desktop devices like PCs and toward other connected devices like game consoles, smartphones, tablets, and set-top boxes, the study found. Now, just 45 percent of Internet traffic on fixed networks actually goes to laptops and desktop computers.
Netflix Takes Up a Third of Internet Bandwidth: Traffic shifting from computers to connected...
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Reading: The Takeout Story OR dangers facing...
Kevin Heldman writes in Capital New York:
Takeout story: Behind bulletproof glass and out on a bike for a Chinese restaurant in Mott Haven
You live in Manhattan below 125th Street, or gentrified Brooklyn, or a quiet part of Queens. You want Chinese food. You’re not following some recommendation from an old Sam Sifton column or a food blog, though. You just want some chicken lo mein,...