December 2011
55 posts
““Part of the deal of working at The New York Times is that your readers, a...”
– David Carr, covers pop culture for the New York Times
“A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Six thousand...”
– Scott Wilson on @kickstarter + TikTok http://bit.ly/vkZOsM
““How do you know which companies and services are going to be the biggest...”
– @fredwilson
““Have you ever been to a drive-in?” MacLachlan asked.
“Yeah,” Armisen said. “...”
“Portlandia is an extended joke about what Freud called the narcissism of small...”
– The New Yorker http://nyr.kr/w1s7V4
“It seems to be celebrated in our tech and startup culture that in order to win...”
– James Gross (Percolate)
“If you’re not being charged for the service then you are not the customer,...”
– #facebook http://bit.ly/uoyQxH
“What is strategy?
In the communications context, strategy is about solving...”
– @markpollard
“It turns out awesomeness is the single biggest driver of sharing.
Studies done...”
– @faris
“…The problem with just about every prediction made by industry firms like...”
– Seth Godin
“Facebook’s impending problem is that even if the company enables future...”
“It can’t continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push...”
– Gordon Moore commenting on his ‘law’.
“‘Do we know the answers to the most important questions in our lives?
...”
– - Mark Pagel (Evolutionary Biologist)
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click...”
– This Tech Bubble Is Different (April, 2011)
http://buswk.co/dYVjZ4
“Nabokov, in one of his many smart and crabby lectures, said that the only...”
“Taste doesn’t work for reason; reason is a skinny underpaid clerk in the office...”
Watch#FutureTrips Surfing China’s Rivers - Silver Dragon Hangzhou 2010
“…kids who go to camp often thrive. “When kids are away from their parents,...”
– Welcome to the Age of Overparenting
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/scripts/print/article.php?asset_idx=329920
“What if the behavior of broken British children is less a violent reaction to...”
– http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/71/generation-fcked.html#.TtzvgwYBXfY.twitter
WatchJamie xx / Creator’s Project interview
Pick her up and pretend you're going to throw her...
“We’ve commented before on the relative paucity of pre-aged consumer electronics,...”
– …the aesthetic qualities that people want, are fascinating.
“Joyce D’Vision: the world’s first drag queen Joy Division tribute act”
– via @koreless
