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  CBS News: 60 Minutes Podcast

• 60 Minutes: 01-31-10

  31 Jan 2010 | 1:00 pm

  In a rare chance to show America's elite Special Forces up close, 60 MINUTES spent over two months with a Green Beret unit as they trained a group of Afghan soldiers and then went into battle with them against the Taliban. Lara Logan reports. Also in the show, U.S. snowboarder Shaun White tells Bob Simon how he's still the one to beat, and Steve Kroft profiles superstar Beyonce on the road.

• 60 Minutes: 01/24/10

  24 Jan 2010 | 9:00 am

  60 MINUTES will be pre-empted this week for a special edition of "60 MINUTES Presents: a Tribute to Don Hewitt." This hour pays tribute to the news magazine's creator and former executive producer, Don Hewitt, who passed away last August at the age of 86.

• 60 Minutes: Haiti

  18 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am

  Byron Pitts reports from Haiti on recovery efforts in the country following the devastating earthquake. Scott Pelley travels to American Samoa to find out how such a small territory produces more NFL players than any place in America. And finally Charlie Rose interviews the Spanish-born actress Penelope Cruz.

• Border Control

  10 Jan 2010 | 2:00 pm

  Steve Kroft reports on the status of the multi-billion-dollar "virtual fence" being built at the U.S.-Mexican border. Later in the show, Authors of a new book, "Game Change," and John McCain's former top campaign strategist reveal behind-the-scenes issues from the Republican and Democratic camps during the presidential campaign. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.

• Swiss banks, elephants

  3 Jan 2010 | 3:00 pm

  Steve Kroft speaks with Swiss banker Bradley Birkenfeld who reveals how he helped uncover thousands of untaxed Swiss accounts. Byron Pitts reports on the increasing claims handled by the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs. And finally Bob Simon travels to Central Africa to learn how researchers there are decoding elephant sounds and behavior to compile an elephant dictionary.

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  Andrew Grumet's Weblog

• Birthday cake (belated)

  6 Feb 2010 | 5:18 pm

  A whole lotta chocolate going on in there.

• Wordpress for Android

  2 Feb 2010 | 5:46 pm

  The wpToGo app is reborn as Wordpress for Android. If this publishes ok, it's working for me.

• Handwriting Recognition

  10 Jan 2010 | 1:30 am

  In a story on this week's On The Media, the guest pointed out that Apple's Newton was a flop due to its poor handwriting recognition. It would have been easy enough to let the point pass, but it got me thinking. With all of the energy put into handwriting recognition over the various generations of products --- from the Newton, to Palm OS with its "graffiti", to the Microsoft tablet PC --- today's premier hand-held devices don't even bother. Instead of a stylus, we use touchscreens and on-screen keyboards or miniaturized keys. Has handwriting recognition ever become a significant or valued…

• It’s easier than you think

  5 Jan 2010 | 1:20 am

  Michael Ruhlman: Real cooking is hard and difficult so here are the nifty shortcuts and tips to make all that hard stuff quickly and easily. It’s the wrong message to broadcast... Amen to that. For all the good that they do, it gives me heartburn when America's Test Kitchen emphasizes "quick", "easy" and "simplified" in their episode titles. Then again, perhaps it's a case of sale psychology. That power drill, or those shoes, are a lot more interesting if they're 50% off, no?

• On The Media on Pitch Men

  2 Jan 2010 | 10:04 pm

  A fantastic piece from On The Media on the infomercial business and its precursors on the Atlantic City boardwalk: Pitch Perfect. It's about 17 minutes long.

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  The Baseline Scenario

• Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Wall Street

  James Kwak

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:39 pm

  Although the Consumer Financial Protection Agency made it through the House more or less intact, the banking lobby is taking another, better shot at killing it in the Senate, and is planning to use the magic words: “big government” and “bureaucracy.” Elizabeth Warren wrote an op-ed for Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal that lays out the confrontation. For most of the past two decades, many Americans trusted the banking industry–not necessarily to be moral exemplars, but they trusted that the banks were basically doing what was right for customers and for the…

• Whose Fault?

  James Kwak

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:14 am

  To believe politicians in Washington and pundits in the media, the national debt has become the most important political issue of the day. (Whether it should be–as opposed to, say, jobs–is another question.) The Republican argument is, basically: “Big deficits! Democratic president! His fault!” The Obama administration argument, by contrast, is “No way! George W. Bush’s fault!” I generally side with Obama on this one, mainly because of the two Bush tax cuts and the unfunded Medicare prescription drug benefit. Keith Hennessey, Bush’s last…

• Fed Chair as Confidence Man

  James Kwak

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am

  I’m not the one saying it–that would be Robert Samuelson, columnist for Newsweek and the Washington Post. The sole point of Samuelson’s recent opinion piece is that Ben Bernanke’s job is to increase confidence. Like much but not all error, there is a grain of truth to this point. Thanks to John Maynard Keynes (whom Samuelson cites), George Akerlof, Robert Shiller, and any number of economics experiments, we know that confidence has an effect on behavior and hence on the economy. Too much overconfidence can fuel a bubble and too much pessimism can exacerbate a slowdown.

• Euro Falling, US Recovery Under Threat

  Simon Johnson

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:46 pm

  Intensified fears over government debt in the eurozone are pushing the euro weaker against the dollar.  The G7 achieved nothing over the weekend, the IMF is stuck on the sidelines, and the Europeans are sitting on their hands at least until a summit on Thursday.  There is a lot of trading time between now and then – and most of it is likely to be spent weakening the euro further. The UK also faces serious pressure, and there is no telling where this goes next around the world – or how it gets there. There may be direct effects on the US, as our banking system remains…

• Europe Risks Another Global Depression

  Simon Johnson

  7 Feb 2010 | 4:46 am

  The entirely pointless G7 meeting this weekend only served to underline the fact that Europe is again entering a serious economic crisis. At the end of the meeting yesterday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told reporters, “I just want to underscore they made it clear to us, they the European authorities, that they will manage this [the Greek debt crisis] with great care.” But the Europeans are not being careful – and it’s not just about Greece any more.  Worries about government debt and associated public sector liabilities (e.g., because banking systems are in deep trouble) have…

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  Betsy Devine

• The blind leading the Democrats

  Betsy Devine

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:15 am

  Snow-covered lion on Columbia campus Originally uploaded by betsythedevine “Not one dime! Not until Democrats pass healthcare.” That is what DNC fundraisers who call our house are going to hear from now on. The hacks and jackasses in Washington who took over the Democratic National Committee from Howard Dean have taken us right back to their old election-losing “centrist” techniques. Under Dean’s leadership, we witnessed the landslide election of Barack Obama and Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate. All that advantage has been nearly frittered…

• Looking back, and looking forward

  Betsy Devine

  31 Dec 2009 | 9:38 pm

  NH strawberry season Originally uploaded by betsythedevine Hello, 2010, you already look so appealing, even under a faint sugar frosting of newfallen snow. Farewell and very good riddance to the now-past noughties, from Bush’s Florida recount to the disasters his team left behind. This picture is here to remind me of all the many things that are now better than they were when I was a little girl. The Merrimack River, once full of untreated sewage and factory waste, is now full of fish and dotted with boats in the summer. (Oh how Republicans complained about its cleanup!) I can find…

• John Brockman, founder of the feast

  Betsy Devine

  28 Dec 2009 | 8:58 pm

  John Brockman, founder of the feast Originally uploaded by betsythedevine John Brockman and Katinka Matson were in Cambridge this weekend, throwing (as usual) an enjoyable party… ..at which none of my iPhone pictures came out, but I like this one of John, seen here with just a bit of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the author of the (soon to be published) Bursts. There was quite a bit of talk about the Edge question for 2010 (which remains secret until it gets published there January 1.) I was also very intrigued by the ongoing DNA mysteries that Ting Wu explores in her Harvard Med School lab…

• Why does my desk not already look like this?

  Betsy Devine

  6 Dec 2009 | 5:06 am

  Mmm computer displays to dream on 3 Originally uploaded by betsythedevine I have seen the future and it is CERN. The only reason our desks don’t all look like this right now is that you, yes you, haven’t yet realized how much you want this, and therefore computer and software manufacturers have not yet started to make it easy to get. Brains are not computers and we have “evolved” our computers to supplement the places where we really need extra help — memory storage and processing, collaboration, number crunching, and visualizing stuff. The trouble is that,…

• Real-time results from CERN’s ATLAS detector

  Betsy Devine

  1 Dec 2009 | 2:32 pm

  Real-time results from CERN’s ATLAS detector Originally uploaded by betsythedevine Frank and I are in Bern on our way to CERN, as the LHC beams are finally online and being brought up to speed. The LHC beam got to Bern’s labs before we did. But not much before we did — ATLAS recorded its first particle “splashes” on Nov. 20, not much more than a week ago. The ATLAS group at Bern University focuses on data-acquisition and data-analysis. One of the many amazing things they showed us today is their giant realtime display of LHC information. The lefthand side of the…

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  bijan sabet

• our old microwave bit the dust. so lauren gave it to james. he...

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:07 am

  our old microwave bit the dust. so lauren gave it to james. he loves it.

• Murder In The City - The Avett Brothers via The Second Gleam EP....

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:46 am

  Murder In The City - The Avett Brothers via The Second Gleam EP. mellow & wonderful.

• The devil you know may be holding you back

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:06 am

  Last week I had a drink with an experienced exec that has worked in big companies all of his life and never worked for a startup. That’s fine, not everyone is made for a startup life. But at one point, in the conversation he told me that he’s been tempted by startups a number of times but reminded himself of that old saying “the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t”. I paused when I heard that comment. I believe that saying is counter productive. To me, it says that the person is unwilling or unable to take chance or make a decision where the outcome is unknown. I told…

• King Of Carrot Flowers Part I - Neutral Milk Hotel Back to back...

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:43 am

  King Of Carrot Flowers Part I - Neutral Milk Hotel Back to back days from the same record. I’ve got to pick this up on vinyl.

• In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel Heard this...

  7 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm

  In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel Heard this song on the hype machine. Clicked over and saw it was from another Tumblr user. So I clicked ‘liked’ and reblog and now it’s my song of the day! (via panoptican)

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  Brent Simmons: Inessential.com

• Jens on RSS syncing

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:52 am

  Here’s Jens Alfke on RSS syncing with a couple interesting suggestions. (Jens has a lot of experience in this area.)

• Idea for alternative RSS syncing system

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:18 pm

  Google Reader is an RSS reader that can be used for RSS syncing. Bloglines used to have a very basic syncing API (maybe it still does). NewsGator had a syncing API. FeedSync is a way to use feeds to sync other stuff (as far as I can tell). Sync Services (MobileMe syncing API) is a generalized syncing system that might be able to do RSS, but works just between Macs. WebDAV is cool. DropBox is super-amazingly-cool. But these are storage systems, not syncing systems for things like RSS. Not one of the above is a really great system for just syncing RSS between apps. (For people who remember…

• Pretend you’re Apple

  28 Jan 2010 | 11:17 am

  Say you’re Apple. It’s a few years ago. You make and sell computers. You see the rise of web apps, and you notice people talking about how desktop apps are done. Desktop apps are done because, with web apps, people can login from anywhere, any machine, and get to their stuff. That’s cool, and you know it’s cool. You make computers and operating systems, and you think to yourself: “How can I sell computers that are pretty much just web browsers? How is a Mac better than a Dell or a Sony in that case?” I think the first thing you do is make sure you have a great browser. Faster and…

• J.D. Salinger

  28 Jan 2010 | 10:31 am

  I’m broken up with the news that Salinger has died.

• Mom talks iPad

  28 Jan 2010 | 8:36 am

  Adventures in Newfield (my Mom): “Most of the media reports don’t seem to get the new iPad — it’s not about how fast it is, or its lack of a camera or the flash to display video — it’s about using it just about anywhere and not needing a mouse!” Mom wants one. Me too. :)

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  Dave Winer

• Is Manhattan exempt from snowstorms?

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:28 am

  Okay this time they say there really is a snowstorm headed for NYC. And I'm nestled in my West Village apartment, with almost no food in the fridge, thinking -- "What does this mean to me?" Last time I was caught in a snowstorm was in Cambridge, MA. I was staying at the luxurious Charles Hotel, after participating in a conference about the future of news put on by Shorenstein Center. I didn't worry about food, I assumed the hotel would take care of it, and I wasn't disappointed. A group of delayed conference-goers ventured into the snow, across the street to the now-defunct Bombay Club…

• Twitter-killing follow-up

  9 Feb 2010 | 6:42 am

  Yesterday's piece started quite a discussion, and for the most part people agree that it's time for some new stuff in TwitterLand. That tells you that it's not only time, it's past time. In the past, there would have been a lot of comments about how the limits of Twitter are what make it so perfect. If you still believe that, watch this NSFW puppet "interview" with "Walt Mossberg" and "Steve Jobs." It's hilarious, and shows how the tech industry falls for what puppet Steve calls "an obvious crock of shit." Anyway... There's more to producing a Twitter-killer than just adding features that…

• Must-have features for Twitter-killing

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:03 pm

  In October 2009, after 2.5 years of using Twitter every day, I wrote a piece that explained the limits of Twitter that we'll have to look past Twitter to see solved, because Twitter doesn't seem to be trying to solve them. Tomorrow, we hear, Google will announce a product that aims to take on Twitter. If so, here's a list of features to look for. Any of these features would give Google a serious edge over Twitter. Maybe they thought of some things I don't have on my list. It's always nice to put your stake in the ground. I did it with the iPad with some hilarious results. So here's the list…

• Who dat just won the whole thing!

  7 Feb 2010 | 11:39 pm

  A brief note of congratulations to the City that Care Forgot. It's so wonderful that the Saints won the Super Bowl! This will go down as one of the big moments of sports history, imho. As the 1969 Mets undid the betrayal of NY fans by the Dodgers, the Saints give hope to a city that was betrayed in so many ways. From what I know of New Orleans, this victory will be the stuff of legend for a long time to come. It's a city with a great sense of history, and destiny. And humor. Until 2005 its destiny was to be devastated by a monster hurricane and the failure of the rest of the country to come…

• My first full day in NYC

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:37 pm

  I spent my first full day living in NYC since 1977. Lots of observations, but I only have time to share one. In other cities, the places you drive to are places you walk to in Manhattan. There's every kind of restaurant within a block of my apartment. In Palo Alto, you can get it all (but the pizza isn't as good) but you have to drive everywhere unless you live off University Avenue. Same in Berkeley. And the walking in Manhattan is amazing. It's huge and has so much variety. And everywhere you go the buildings reach the sky. In every other city I've lived in, they might have had a few…

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  The Diane Rehm Show: Friday News Roundup Podcast

• News Roundup for Friday February 5, 2010 - Hour 2

  WAMU-FM

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:12 am

  China threatens to retaliate against U.S. companies involved in arms sales to Taiwan; India offers to resume high-level talks with Pakistan; and an Iraqi court allows hundreds of banned candidates to participate in upcoming elections. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.

• News Roundup for Friday February 5, 2010 - Hour 1

  WAMU-FM

  5 Feb 2010 | 11:11 am

  President Obama unveils his budget and challenges Democrats to keep fighting for health care legislation. Car troubles continue for Toyota. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

• News Roundup for Friday February 5, 2010 - Hour 1

  WAMU-FM

  5 Feb 2010 | 9:01 am

  President Obama unveils his budget and challenges Democrats to keep fighting for health care legislation. Car troubles continue for Toyota. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

• News Roundup for Friday January 29, 2010 - Hour 2

  WAMU-FM

  29 Jan 2010 | 11:21 am

  World leaders meet in London to discuss the future of Afghanistan; Chemical Ali is executed in Iraq; and the latest on earthquake-ravaged Haiti. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.

• News Roundup for Friday January 29, 2010 - Hour 1

  WAMU-FM

  29 Jan 2010 | 11:19 am

  What's next for health care, job creation and deficit reduction after the president's State of the Union address; and Toyota suspends sales and issues recall for eight top models. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

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  Doc Searls

• What’s Old is Nude Again

  Doc Searls

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:52 pm

  In Social Media Crisis Management By This Fluid World, Jonathan MacDonald reviews his own reporting of a real-life incident in the London Underground — and what happened next, as the ripples spread. Good stuff. In the midst of his talk (slides are presented in the post) he cites my own small contribution. Interesting how normative practices continue to improve even as variants emerge, and even as supporting technology changes, along with users and uses. For example, reporting is still reporting, whether you’re doing it by blogging or tweeting or texting or phoning or ……

• Dats love

  Doc Searls

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:27 pm

  Sez Dave (now back in Metsland), “As the 1969 Mets undid the betrayal of NY fans by the Dodgers, the Saints give hope to a city that was betrayed in so many ways.” Exactly. And let’s not forget the betrayal of NY fans by the Giants too. Losing both was a double-whammy for me as a kid. For live major league baseball, Dodgers/Giants fans had to go to a Yankees game — and root against them. Did that a few times. It was way cool. And affordable back then too. I believed the Saints would win. The whole run-up felt like the ‘69 Mets AND the ‘69 Jets in Superbowl…

• Heavy Whether

  Doc Searls

  3 Feb 2010 | 1:57 pm

  Chris Daly posts a 1995 essay he wrote for the Atlantic, recalling almost exactly the experience I had as a kid growing up and skating on ponds in the winter. An excerpt: When I was a boy skating on Brooks Pond, there were almost no grown-ups around. Once or twice a year, on a weekend day or a holiday, some parents might come by, with a thermos of hot cocoa. Maybe they would build a fire — which we were forbidden to do — and we would gather round. But for the most part the pond was the domain of children. In the absence of adults, we made and enforced our own rules. We had hardly…

• Ice stories

  Doc Searls

  1 Feb 2010 | 3:53 pm

  For most of Winter in the Northeast, skating is possible only during the somewhat rare times when the ice is thick and not covered with snow or other unwelcome surface conditions. And bad skating has been the story, typically, for most of this Winter around Boston. After an earlier snow, there were some ad hoc skating rinks cleared by shoveling, but those were ruined by rains, more snow, more rains, and intermittent freezes that made a hash of the surface. But recent rains and hard freezes have formed wide paths between remaining islands of ruined snow. On most ponds there aren’t enough…

• Up the creek without an iPaddle

  Doc Searls

  27 Jan 2010 | 9:09 pm

  In response to Dave’s Reading tea leaves in advance of Apple’s announcements, I added this comment: Steve loves to uncork constipated categories with the world’s slickest laxative. So I’m guessing this new box will expand Apple’s retail shelf space to include newspapers, journals and books as well as sound recordings, movies and TV shows. It will be the best showcase “content” ever had, and will be a wholly owned proprietary channel. A year from now, half the people on planes will be watching these things. It would be cool if it also helped any of us…

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  Face the Nation

• Face the Nation on the Radio: 02/07/10

  7 Feb 2010 | 1:00 pm

  Today on Face the Nation, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer talks to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell from the Sun Life Stadium in Miami. He also talks to Shannon Sharpe, Phil Simms and Jim Nantz of CBS Sports.

• Face The Nation on the Radio: 01/31/10

  31 Jan 2010 | 12:00 pm

  Today on Face The Nation, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer hosts as both sides admit disagreements need to be addressed cordially to make politics work - and debate who's being more uncivil...

• Face the Nation on the Radio: 01/24/10

  24 Jan 2010 | 12:00 pm

  Today on Face the Nation, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer interviews Senator John McCain(R) and Senator Richard Durbin(D) from Illinois. Later on the show, a roundtable discussion on the Supreme Court campaign finance ruling with CBS News Correspondents Nancy Cordes and Jan Crawford.

• Face the Nation: 01/17/10

  17 Jan 2010 | 10:00 am

  Today on Face the Nation as the dimensions of the Haitian disaster grow even wider and the death toll rises, former Presidents Clinton and Bush say it is time to put politics aside and help Haiti. We'll talk to both of them. And from our correspondents and U.S. officials on the scene, we'll get the latest on this tragedy. Face the Nation with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer, and now from Washington, Bob Schieffer.

• Face the Nation on the Radio: 01/10/10

  10 Jan 2010 | 10:00 am

  Today on Face the Nation, are we on the right track in the war on terrorism and can the Senate majority leader survive an insensitive remark about Barack Obama's race?A new book suggests that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thought Barack Obama's candidacy would be helped because he was, quote, "light-skinned and had no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." At a time when Democrats are already having their problems, what will be the impact of that? And the President tells the intelligence bureaucracy to shape up after the near catastrophe on the flight to Detroit. Where does the war…

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  A VC

• Twilio

  Fred

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:52 am

  While everyone was on the holiday break at the end of last year, Twilio wrote a blog post that very few people noticed. They announced that our firm, Union Square Ventures, had become an investor in Twilio. Twilio is not a services for the masses. Yet. It's a service that web developers can use to build telephony apps or build telephony into their app. This image on Twilio's home page says it all. In the "Areas of Interest" post that I wrote at the start of the year, I wrote: Developers are the new power users. If you cater to them, you can build a large user base with significant network…

• The Time Value Of Money

  Fred

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:34 am

  It's Monday, time for MBA Mondays.  Last week, I posted about The Present Value Of Future Cash Flows and in the comments Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry wrote: That being said, before even covering NPV, I would have first talked about the time value of money. To me, time value of money is one of the top 3 concepts that blew my mind in business school and that should be common knowledge. When you think about it, all of finance, but also much of business, is underpinned by that. Once you understand time value of money, you understand opportunity costs, you understand sunk costs, you just view the…

• Flash, HTML5, and Mobile Apps

  Fred

  7 Feb 2010 | 6:12 am

  About a year ago, I wrote a post about Apple's "blind spot" for Flash. I took more heat for that post than anything else I've written here other than political posts. It opened my eyes to the fact that Flash vs HTML5 is one of the most politically heated topics in the tech business. The third rail, as it were. The choice of what technology web developers use to produce rich browser based applications is a big deal with a lot of important ramifications for companies, investors, and most importantly users. Jeremy Allaire, creator of ColdFusion and Brightcove, addresses this issue today on…

• Lightweight Advocacy

  Fred

  6 Feb 2010 | 4:18 am

  I was at a board meeting of a non profit this week and the talk turned to "advocacy" and whether or not the non profit should be doing any of that. I had to ask what the definition of advocacy was just to be clear what we were talking about. It's not something I've traditionally been involved in. When I think of advocacy, I think of politics, lobbying, public relations, and a bunch of other "heavyweight" behaviors that I abhor. Wikipedia's definition of advocacy is: Advocacy is the pursuit of influencing outcomes — including public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political,…

• NYC BigApps Winners Announced

  Fred

  5 Feb 2010 | 3:40 am

  I've posted about the NYC BigApps contest a few times here. And you all helped me with my chore of judging all 85 apps. Thank you for that. Last night I walked up The Highline to IAC Headquarters to attend an event where the winners were announced. I also manned the "Investors Bar" where a number of fellow venture and angel investors sat and talked to the entrepreneurs in attendance. Kind of like the genius bar, but the geniuses were on the other side lining up to talk to us. The winners were (cutting and pasting from the NY Times here): WayFinder NYC: An application…

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  NPR: Fresh Air Podcast

• NPR: 02-08-2010 Fresh Air

  National Public Radio

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:36 pm

  Stories: 1) 20 Years Of Defending Death Row Inmates 2) Jazz Ensemble Empirical Recalls Eric Dolphy

• NPR: 02-05-2010 Fresh Air

  National Public Radio

  5 Feb 2010 | 6:34 pm

  Stories: 1) Temple Grandin: The Woman Who Talks to Animals 2) 'Love' American Style: In Paris, Travolta Takes Names

• NPR: 02-04-2010 Fresh Air

  National Public Radio

  4 Feb 2010 | 6:38 pm

  Stories: 1) Aziz Ansari: The Funniest Tool In 'Parks' Utility Shed 2) Ravens Coach Brian Billick Tackles Super Bowl XLIV

• NPR: 02-03-2010 Fresh Air

  National Public Radio

  3 Feb 2010 | 6:36 pm

  Stories: 1) Colin Firth: By Anyone's Measure, A Leading Man 2) 'Transference' Adds Layers To Spoon's Sound 3) Watching 'Lost' Later Spoils Some Of The Fun

• NPR: 02-02-2010 Fresh Air

  National Public Radio

  2 Feb 2010 | 6:34 pm

  Stories: 1) 'Henrietta Lacks': A Donor's Immortal Legacy 2) Big Star: The Unluckiest Band In America

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  Etaoin Shrdlu

• iPad will help us most when it disappears

  30 Jan 2010 | 1:12 pm

  Both in anticipation of and reaction to the Apple iPad, people playing the Future of News Game tended toward superlatives. It would save traditional models, some said, by making Plain Old Newsprint pretty and shiny and worth charging for. Others looked at the missing Flash plugin and multitasking capability and dismissed the device as irrelevant. They’re both wrong—and the truth isn’t somewhere

• Hegemony Watch

  18 Dec 2009 | 9:54 am

  I'm planning to keep an eye on developments that suggest a growing concentration of media power in ever smaller circles—at the moment, mainly Google. I'll comment here when I have anything substantial to say. Otherwise, I'm going to post quick comments and links on The Weaver Wire at posterous. Like this one: Hegemony Watch, Google & Yelp edition. 

• Revenue for news: What if we're asking the wrong question?

  12 Dec 2009 | 3:20 pm

  Some time last week, the usual suspects were riffing on Twitter about a post called “Where does the paywall go?” that postulates most website activity comes from a very small percentage of readers and they, consequently, must not be “paywalled off.” Jeff Jarvis' Twitter question was phrased thusly: “Okay, so where do you put the paywall? No seriously, look at the data.” The obvious implication

• How do you resist global information hegemony?

  25 Nov 2009 | 9:26 am

  What if civic news has always been a niche market and we just didn’t recognize that? Mixed up with the sports readers and food page readers and folks who just wanted to see what was on TV, the people who bought and read the newspaper mainly for civic news probably were no more than a fraction of the total “news audience” all along. This is at odds with my sense that most people are inherently

• Should government policy affect news? Come on, it already does

  20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am

  I guess Jim Barnett must trust rich people a lot more than I do. Don’t get me wrong: some of my best friends, yada-yada, and I certainly wouldn’t mind if my sister married one. (If I had a sister). But why on earth does he think putting media decisions in the hands of the richest few Americans is the best way to go? I hope Jim and everybody else understands my own preference: journalism needs

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  JoeTrippi.com

• Google developing real-time spoken language translation service

  Joe Trippi

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:53 am

  Image credit: voices.com In a project that could revolutionize international communication, Google is working to create mobile phone software that will build on voice recognition and automatic translation technology to provide almost instantaneous voice translations. Google says the project should be ready in a couple of years. The UK Times reports: “We think speech-to-speech translation should be possible and work reasonably well in a few years’ time,” said Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services. “Clearly, for it to work smoothly, you need a combination of high-accuracy…

• Predicting the future of news consumption, from the inside

  Joe Trippi

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:14 pm

  Ever wondered what news companies are doing to predict the future of media consumption? With the recent trends of decline in print media, this is one of the hot questions for the journalism industry. Today in a post on the New York Times’ Bits blog, the vice president for research and development operations at The New York Times Company, Michael Zimbalast, details his department’s analysis of “weak signals” and consumer trends to extrapolate the impact for the news industry: The New York Times Company’s research and development department tries to predict the kinds…

• FBI requests ISP’s keep records of customers’ site visits for 2 years

  Joe Trippi

  7 Feb 2010 | 11:58 am

  This last week FBI Director Robert Mueller renewed its call for Internet service providers to record what websites their customers visit, keeping logs for two years. As Mashable reports: That would mean monitoring the IP addresses, domains and exact websites users visit, and then storing that information for months. If officials who support this measure get their way, federal, state and local law enforcement would be able to access the information via search warrant or subpoena. The FBI has made these requests previously, and argues that this would be a modernization of previous laws that…

• Tracking open gov sites for U.S. Departments and Agencies on launch deadline

  admin

  6 Feb 2010 | 11:25 am

  Two months ago, the White House Office of Management and Budget released The Open Government Directive which laid out a number of requirements for executive departments and agencies. One of these requirements was to launch an open government website to serve as the gateway for agency activities related to the Directive by today, February 6th. ProPublica is tracking the progress of agency sites going up: You can find the latest assessment at ProPublica. In addition to creating an open government website, the OMB laid out a number of other requirements in its directive relating to the…

• New York City announces application winners for open data competition

  admin

  5 Feb 2010 | 1:53 pm

  The open data movement continues to build as New York City announced the winners of its NYCBigApps competition today. The competition is self-described as “A software application challenge in keeping with New York City’s drive to become more transparent, accessible, and accountable.” $20,000 in cash prizes is being rewarded between the competition winners, along with the opportunity to have a dinner with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. The New York Times’ Bits blog reports: The competition, which the city’s Economic Development Corporation kicked off in June, gave…

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  John Robb's Weblog

• Demographic Dystopia

  John Robb

  13 Jan 2010 | 9:55 am

  Back in 1996, I worked on the implications of matching just-in-time advertising with highly accurate personal data with the senior leadership of Firefly.  My conclusion was that once that connection could be made, we create the opportunity for a demographic dystopia.  In short, because you have great data (money, spending habits, public/network influence, etc.) you will get lots of free stuff.  For example, you walk into a movie theater, ping the kiosk with you phone, and it says, "John Robb, it's so great to have you here. Please let us offer you a free…

• Avatar

  John Robb

  30 Dec 2009 | 1:37 pm

  Saw it in 3D IMAX with the family today.  All I can say is "insert favorite explicative here" James Cameron.  He's done it again, and even better than before. 

• Climate change summit = financial scam

  John Robb

  8 Dec 2009 | 2:33 pm

  Limos, parties, caviar....  A party to launch another big kleptocratic event. Not even hiding that this is all about the money that can be made by the global financial system on carbon credits.  

• Black Friday, Spectator Sport and Simulated Shopping

  John Robb

  30 Nov 2009 | 8:27 am

  Even in a very prosperous part of the country, relatively untouched by start of the depression, black Friday shopping was a bust.  Lines at food court and not the shops.  VERY selective buying.  Maybe $100 for the day on deeply discounted (70% off required) items.  Mostly a spectator sport and a simulated shopping experience.

• The China Myth

  John Robb

  16 Nov 2009 | 8:02 am

  In truth, China is more vulnerable that the US is. Yves has some good stuff on this today. Here's more from the FT's Abrose Evans Pritchard: It is fashionable to talk of America as the supplicant. That misreads the strategic balance. Washington can bring China to its knees at any time by shutting markets. There is no symmetry here. Any move by Beijing to liquidate its holdings of US Treasuries could be neutralized – in extremis – by capital controls. Well-armed sovereign states can do whatever they want. If provoked, the US has the economic depth to retreat into near autarky (with NAFTA)…

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  Kara Swisher

• Was Google Ad Designed for Viral Mockery? "Parisian Oops," "Is Tiger Feeling Lucky Today"…What Next?

  Kara Swisher

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:30 am

  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Yesterday, the day after after Google aired its first national commercial on the Super Bowl, an exec at a rival Internet company marveled at what high favorable scores the “Parisian Love” advertisement got, adding that the possibilities for spoofs were endless. “I have a feeling that making fun of it will probably be a good thing for Google,” sighed the exec, who would dearly like such attention. BoomTown doubts anyone at Google (GOOG) meant it that way. But, indeed, it did not take two seconds before the takeoffs on…

• Better Times for VCs? Redpoint Raises $400 Million Fund Focused on Social, Mobile, Cloud and Clean.

  Kara Swisher

  9 Feb 2010 | 12:15 am

  Redpoint Ventures announced that it had closed a new $400 million fund to invest in early-stage start-ups in the “social and mobile Internet, cloud computing and clean technology spaces.” The last fund that the Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture firm raised was $250 million in March 2007. It was called Redpoint Omega and aimed at later-stage start-ups. The last early-stage fund, Redpoint III, was in February 2007, and was also $400 million. While Redpoint’s new fund size did not increase, as they often do, is today’s closing a sign that things are looking up for the…

• Turning the Tables: Carol Bartz Grills BoomTown in the Yahoo Cafeteria (Over Easy With a Side of Disclosure)

  Kara Swisher

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:16 pm

  Today, BoomTown gassed up the Mini Cooper and motored down to the Sunnyvale, Calif., HQ of Yahoo, this time with a tiny bit of trepidation. Okay, not that much, but some! Why? Because Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz had invited me to be the first in a new speaker series, “Yahoo From the ‘Outside In,’” for employees at the Internet giant, due to my intense–some might say obsessive–interest in the company. The twist: Bartz herself conducted the interview with me in front of about 600 Yahoos gathered in the company’s URL’s Café, the main cafeteria at…

• Microsoft's New Mobile Phone Software Is Coming (and Its "Project Pink" Still Lives)–But Should It Just Give Up and Buy RIM?

  Kara Swisher

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:06 am

  Next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft is likely to unveil Windows Mobile 7, the new version of its mobile operating system, trying to create some excitement around its foundering mobile strategy. “Foundering” is probably kind, given the innovative strides both Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) have made in the smartphone arena in recent years by comparison. That’s why rumors about the various attributes of the new mobile OS escalated again after Microsoft (MSFT) CFO Peter Klein noted at the company’s most recent earnings call: “As we…

• The Bids Are In for AOL's Sale of ICQ–It's Down to a "U.N." of Four Buyers

  Kara Swisher

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:02 am

  AOL has taken another step closer to selling off its ICQ instant messaging service, culling seven bids to four “serious” ones, said sources close to the situation. The price for the service is hovering just under $200 million, several sources said, with one bid higher. An AOL spokeswoman declined to comment. BoomTown reported news of the sale of ICQ by AOL (AOL) in November, part of a deleveraging of units from the newly independent Internet company as it focuses more on its content and advertising business. While other reports a month later said the sale was closer to completion…

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  Lance Knobel

• “The Pepsi of Austrian writing”

  Lance Knobel

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:11 pm

  I’ve written before about my father’s unfashionable taste for Lion Feuchtwanger. Another Mittel European whom he favored was Stefan Zweig, for his fiction more than for his historical works. Many are sitting on my shelves now, part of the library that was divided between my sisters and me. But I’m going to have to take another look, with some trepidation, after reading Michael Hofmann’s evisceration of Zweig in the London Review of Books: Stefan Zweig just tastes fake. He’s the Pepsi of Austrian writing. He is the one whose books made films – 18 of them, and…

• Undercover Boss — good and bad

  Lance Knobel

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:13 pm

  I just watched the first episode of Undercover Boss, the new reality show from CBS. The idea is that a corporate executive goes “undercover” to find out what work is like on the frontlines of the company. Tonight’s episode followed Larry O’Donnell, president and COO of Waste Management, the $13 billion group that handles all sorts of dirty jobs — garbage collection, recycling, waste disposal, and so on. Waste Management made Wayne Huizenga’s first fortune, growing enormously as municipalities in the US and internationally contracted out services like…

• Davos redux

  Lance Knobel

  1 Feb 2010 | 3:04 pm

  Felix Salmon responds to my defense of Davos the other day. I agree with almost everything Felix writes. I suspect we generally share a world view, and I’m certainly suspicious of people who are convinced of their own righteousness (I never thought invading Iraq was a good idea, by the way). Where I disagree is the notion that there is some kind of singular Davos crowd or mindset (exemplified in Sam Huntington’s phrase “Davos man”). Felix writes: My point isn’t that Davos is influential or powerful in itself, just that it inculcates a mindset in its delegates where…

• The story of Davos

  Lance Knobel

  29 Jan 2010 | 11:36 am

  When Davos Newbies was launched in 1999, it was all Davos, all the time. I haven’t been back to Davos since 2001 (and the New York “Davos” in 2002), and so the blog has understandably drifted into other areas. But reading some of the reports from this year’s Davos there are some things that I think deserve comment. My friend Felix Salmon posted a very critical view of Davos and the World Economic Forum the other day: Is anybody here seriously examining the idea that Davos was institutionally responsible, at least in part, for the economic and financial catastrophe…

• The Prince of currencies

  Lance Knobel

  19 Jan 2010 | 11:05 am

  I recently finished Liaquat Ahamed’s wonderful Lords of Finance, which hardly needs my encomium on top of the many great reviews it received (you might want to try Joe Nocera or Jonathan Davis). But I suspect I’m one of the few readers who had an extra frisson when I read the following paragraph, about part of the response to FDR’s 1933 closing of all the banks in the country: More than a hundred cities and towns, including Atlanta, Richmond, Knoxville, Nashville, and Philadelphia, issued their own scrip. The Dow Chemical Company coined magnesium into alternative coins. That…

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  Marc Canter

• 1st week of Feb. 2010 - blogging

  marc

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:23 pm

  Perhaps Michael Arrington should watch my going away present to Silly Valley on the notion of what a Persona editor would look like.  Unfortunately this video has never been included onto teh Google Tech Talk page - or indexed into Google - though that was why I did it.  But regardless - the issue of centralizing one’s ‘digital lifestyle’ is totally what the Persona Editor is all about. We’re increasing our efforts at CWRU to teach entrepreneurism and encourage entrepreneurial activities. Steve Gillmor wants his iTV Dunkin Donuts contest “create your own…

• On-demand “Lost”

  marc

  8 Feb 2010 | 1:15 pm

  Since I teach my class on Tuesday nights - I’ve been unnable to catch the new episodes of “Lost”.  So I’m forced to go to ‘Hulu’ and go on-demand. But what a pleasure! Given “Lost’s” time travel motif, I can’t help but comment on and create a blog post on how coolio it is to be able to randomly jump throughout the five season mythology of “Lost”, pause, rewind, watch again - study - and then loop through the Lost storyline - again - but this time via episode #22 - instead of episode #4. The other bonuses to watching…

• I’m not passive in any way

  marc

  6 Feb 2010 | 6:16 am

  My wife just said it perfectly. I’m going to pursue the answers.  I’m not gonna sit still and accept the status quo. Kismet has brought me here and I’m letting fate guide me. My current class has us building the user experiences for the Case Connection Zone.  Stay tuned on that one.  It’s installing 1,000 megabit connections into 104 homes and apartments on Hessler St. - directly adjacent to the CWRU campus. Watch the videos of the class - and enjoy me having a GREAT time teaching!

• It’s George’s birthday - and I’m blogging

  marc

  3 Feb 2010 | 2:20 pm

  Happy birthday to my best friend here in Cleveland - George Nemeth! The Open Web doesn’t have a single vendor I can’t think of a better person to run Google’s social efforts - than Joseph Smarr! Subscriptions are the new black - I still think OPEN is the new black.  Others agree. It’s Time to Know Regrets on being a Digital nation Monetization and consolidation in the land of Second Life. Microsoft Azure finally ships…. Werner Vogels and Amazon = rock! Divest divest divest - is what Yahoo is all about. Learning from your garden - is crucial Gotta get me one of…

• A blog post about Cleveland, Youngstown and the Plain Dealer

  marc

  1 Feb 2010 | 8:59 am

  Over here in NEO (North East Ohio) the Plain Dealer is the old school media player who’s Cleveland.com has been the old school portal of note. In yesterday’s Sunday paper the Plain Dealer published: - yet another article on Youngstown and the Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI) - an attack on the Cleveland Foundation pulling their funding from the Fund for the Economic Future Jim Cossler is the driving force the YBI and he’s almost single handedly forcing companies to move to Youngstwon.  Jim’s fervor and passion is what ignites the YBI and makes Youngstown what it is…

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  Matt Mullenweg

• Jay-Z

  Matt

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:43 pm

  As I noted on Twitter, Jay-Z now has a WordPress-powered blog. It’s  bare right now, but hopefully they really start to stretch WP soon. By the by, Jay, let’s grab a bite and talk tech and design. Hat tip: Michael Koenig.

• Seven on Seven – Rhizome

  Matt

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:36 pm

  In April I’m going to be participating in an event called Seven on Seven put on by Rhizome. “Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new — be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine — over the course of a single day. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum on April 17th.”

• Start Project

  Matt

  3 Feb 2010 | 6:27 pm

  As reported on BoomTown, I’m joining some cool folks including Biz Stone, Chris Sacca, Mike Tatum, and David Liu as an adviser to The Start Project.

• WPtogo is now WordPress Android

  Matt

  2 Feb 2010 | 4:29 pm

  We’ve just released WordPress for Android 1.0 which is a continuation of the WpToGo development now under an official WordPress banner, and of course as Free Software. Congrats to Dan and the team on making this happen. Mobile stuff is really starting to come together for WordPress. I’ve been playing with this on my Nexus One for about a week and loving it.

• Better Firefox Checker

  Matt

  1 Feb 2010 | 5:58 pm

  After the Deadline, the enhanced spelling and grammar checker, has just released a new extension for Firefox that enables AtD functionality on any textarea on the web, which is really killer. This is one of the possibilities I was most excited about when we acquired AtD. For more check out the coverage on Download Squad and Lifehacker.

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  Meet the Press

• NBC Meet the Press (audio) - 02-07-2010-090315

  NBC News

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am

  Listen to NBC 's "Meet the Press," featuring headline-making interviews with world leaders and U.S. newsmakers every Sunday morning. This audio podcast, published each Sunday by MSNBC.com, brings you each show in its entirety. For more from "Meet the Press" visit http://mtp.msnbc.com

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  Michael Gartenberg

• Please take our mobile app survey for developers

  Gartenberg

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:55 am

  Interpret is conducting an App Developer Study and we are attempting to recruit both professional and hobbyist App Developers to take a short survey we’ve designed. We believe the survey will quite be helpful in pushing the industry forward for both developers and app users so please pass this on to anyone you know who might be interested. You can find the survey here. http://tiny.cc/appstudy

• Lessons from the iPad Launch

  Gartenberg

  31 Jan 2010 | 3:25 pm

  Latest Engadget column, “lessons from the iPad launch” is now live here. “Apple didn’t invent the MP3 player market or the smartphone market, and it’s got a long way to go in the market for tablet devices. In each case, it refined the concept to make a device that appealed to the enthusiast market but was able to go beyond that space and capture the attention (and wallets) of the mass market. Vendors competing with Apple in this space are going to need to understand these lessons and in many cases change not only their current products, but the story they…

• iPad Hands on and First Take

  Gartenberg

  30 Jan 2010 | 5:15 pm

  iPad hands on and first take are up at SlashGear. Check it out here “When the iPhone went on sale, some called it a failure and predicted lack of consumer adoption. Like the iPod and iPhone, Apple did not invent the iPad device category. It has, however, done a better job to date than anyone else justifying that space to the market, and I expect both enthusiast and mainstream consumer demand to be strong.”

• Thanksgiving Thoughts 2009

  Gartenberg

  25 Nov 2009 | 9:38 am

  On the eve of Thanksgiving I’m thinking about how more then three hundred years ago, a small band of pilgrims united in faith and seeking liberty came to a new world. A place where they could worship according to their own beliefs. Tomorrow, in the United States, we celebrate a national day of thanksgiving. How cool is that? Wherever you are, I wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving and best wishes for the holiday season. See you next week.

• 5 Things Missing from the Droid

  Gartenberg

  8 Nov 2009 | 9:41 am

  Lots of buzz about the Droid over the weekend as more users got their hands on a device. My first take is posted over on SlashGear and it’s mostly positive. If, however, you’re thinking of getting one, here’s a list of five things that you should know about before you buy. 1. Applications. Despite the 10,000 apps in the the marketplace there’s too much stuff still missing, especially in terms of entertainment. That means a real lack of good games, no eBook readers like Kindle or Noook, no Slingplayer etc. Even worse, Android 2.0 still has a limit of 256mb for…

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  Naked Jen

• Is it art? I don't know. But it sure as hell was entertaining.

  nakedjen

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:50 pm

  My head feels a bit like a snow globe. That is in the hands of a three year old boy. Who has decided that it will be a blizzard for the hapless snowman inside ALL THE TIME. That is to...

• In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

  nakedjen

  2 Feb 2010 | 4:52 pm

  She shared that the film we had seen at the previous year's festival, "Interviews with Pathetic Men" (which, honestly, is NOT the title of the film, but is what we both have decided it really should be called) always seems to be on and she knows, insists really, that all the festival films find their way there but how do you sort the good from the bad, the ones that you really do want to see from the things that are just, well, pathetic?

• The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

  nakedjen

  25 Jan 2010 | 10:33 pm

  I think in the last four days I've gotten a total of about seven hours of sleep. This is not at all even the tiniest exaggeration. Cramming 23 films into four days will do that to a certain naked girl.

• The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

  nakedjen

  23 Jan 2010 | 10:39 am

  Those confluences when the writing and the pictures and the sound and the gasps of an audience all manage to come together in rare synchronicity are what fueled our bond in many ways. I miss sharing this festival with him.

• "Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being."

  nakedjen

  22 Jan 2010 | 6:18 am

  It is our common bond. We share our stories, our tales, our lives to stay connected to each other. To feel a part of the larger community. To contribute and to know that we are, yes, alive.

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  FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right

• Republicans -- Not Obama -- More Often on Wrong Side of Public Opinion

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:23 am

  One of the more commonplace assertions among pundits on the center-right -- made rather carelessly by Victor Davis Hanson and more thoughtfully by Jay Cost, is that agenda put forward by Obama and the Democrats is overwhelmingly unpopular and that Democrats are simply getting their comeuppance for having pushed such a liberal set of reforms forward. These claims, however, rely on selective evidence, invariably citing policies like health care and the GM bailouts which are indeed unpopular (strongly so, in some cases), while ignoring many other issues on which Obama has been on the right side…

• Is It The Process, Stupid?

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:39 pm

  Because it was Super Bowl week--and I happened to be watching a rebroadcast of the New York Giants' amazing Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots, in which his son Zack made the tackle on the final kickoff of the game--I checked in with Steve DeOssie, an acquaintance of mine who also won a Super Bowl ring for the New York Giants, back in 1991. Steve is very politically active and astute, and although we don’t see eye-to-eye on many issues, I respect him a lot and his opinions.DeOssie and his former Patriots teammate Fred Smerlas co-own a steakhouse in Providence, Rhode Island.

• Sarah Palin Needs Help

  8 Feb 2010 | 6:19 am

  There's something which, if you've ever been in the business of trying to sell consulting services, you've probably grown accustomed to. It's what I call the "consulting paradox". Namely, it's the idea that the people who are most in need of help are often the least aware of it. Indeed, the range of potential clients who (i) aren't smart enough to solve all their own problems and (ii) are smart enough to know it ... is generally very narrow.Sarah Palin needs help. So does almost every politician -- but Palin needs it more than most. She is young. She is inexperienced. She's not especially…

• Go For It! Saints Understand Value of Aggressive Play-Calling

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:24 pm

  UPDATE: Congratulations to the Saints and the city of New Orleans! Although it was mostly about the talent on the field, this game could do a lot of good for smarter NFL strategery. Expect a lot more onside kicks next season!---Let's take a quick look at the Saints' decision to go for the touchdown on fourth down and about a yard-and-a-half with 1:55 to go in the first half. Although Pierre Thomas got stuffed, it was probably the best play by a wide margin.How come? Because even if you miss, the Colts are pinned inside their own 2 yard line. This makes a lot of difference: having the ball on…

• Super Bowl Thread: Take the Points

  7 Feb 2010 | 2:55 pm

  Depending on where you're betting, you can get the New Orleans Saints as anywhere from 4 to 6 points underdogs, although the average seems to have settled upon 4.5.This makes for a fairly significant cushion. Between 1999 and 2008, 28 percent of NFL games were decided by 4 points or fewer, and 31 percent were decided by 5 or fewer (see below). So with the Saints side of this bet, you're basically getting them every time that they win as well as about 30 percent of the time that they lose:Sure, caveats apply: 4.5 points isn't as many in a game between two high-scoring teams as it would be…

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  Om Malik

• With SMS, Twilio Continues to Shake Up Communications

  Om Malik

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am

  About 25 months ago, when I first met Jeff Lawson, formerly of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the founder and CEO of Twilio, I was skeptical of his chances. After all, he wanted to marry the world of voice to the world of web applications. This oft-discussed marriage of web and voice has been attempted many times and has often met with failure. So for the longest time I resisted writing about it. Fast-forward to today and my skepticism about Jeff’s business is decreasing, for multiple reasons. For starters, the company, which has raised $4.3 million in total funding from the likes of…

• GIPS Wants iPhone to Video Conference More Often

  Om Malik

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

  GIPS, a San Francisco-based company that licenses intellectual property including codecs for audio and video, says it’s come up with a technology that would allow third-party developers to embed video chat in their iPhone-related applications. The new technology is called VideoEngine (VEI) Mobile. The VideoEngine utilizes H.263 (video codec), GIPS wideband/HD voice (iPCM-Wb) and G711 (audio codec) to provide functionality that would allow real-time video chat or multipoint video conferencing. GIPS is using the H.263 codec because it (and in turn the developers who use VEI) doesn’t…

• Fear & Loathing Over iPad Pricing

  Om Malik

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm

  The Wall Street Journal in a blog post today points to a research note by Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope that he wrote in the wake of meeting with Apple executives. It reads: Apple wants the iPad to be the best device for a few key use cases. For instance, the company believes it could eventually be seen as superior to both handheld and notebook devices for browsing the Internet, using the App Store, and consuming mobile media (video, photos, and e-books). Nevertheless, in other areas, notebooks, the iPhone, or an iPod may be more appropriate. This clear segmentation of capabilities…

• What You Should Be Reading This Weekend

  Om Malik

  6 Feb 2010 | 9:42 pm

  At our GigaOM company meeting, Simon Mackie, editor of WebWorkerDaily shared his views on why every weekend he publishes and shares a collection of articles & blog posts he had read over the week. Taking a cue from him and my friend Paul Kedrosky, I am sharing a list of articles/posts which I think you should read this weekend. Rolling Stone Magazine interviews Steve Jobs: One from the archives. This interview conducted in 1994 lays out Jobs’ vision of the future. Much of it is coming true. Google Me to the Moon: In a beautiful nostalgic essay, Angels Riechers writes on Google Maps,…

• Mozilla to Developers: Let’s Build on Weave Sync

  Om Malik

  6 Feb 2010 | 6:32 pm

  As you know, we’ve been following Mozilla’s Weave Sync project for a long time. Last week, the Weave Sync add-on for Firefox was made available. Installable as an extension for Firefox, Weave is way to synchronize bookmarks, saved passwords, browsing history and open browser tabs across multiple browsers and computers. Now Mozilla Labs is hoping that developers will adopt Weave Sync and build upon the service using a set of Weave Sync and User APIs. Mozilla is launching a whole range of developer resources that also include Python & Javascript client libraries. The idea behind…

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  On the Media

• The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls (On The Media: Friday, 05 February 2010)

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:04 pm

  Some unpublished Salinger writing has already found its way into the world. For instance, the Firestone Library at Princeton University has a collection of never-published stories by the author. While patrons aren't allowed to check them out or even to photocopy them, that hasn't stopped obsessive Salinger fans from making the pilgramage to see the stories. OTM producer PJ Vogt is one such fan.

• With Love and Squalor (On The Media: Friday, 05 February 2010)

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:59 am

  JD Salinger died last week, nearly 50 years after publishing his last short story. The reclusive author claimed to have been writing novels in private over the last half century. Slate columnist and devoted Salingerophile Ron Rosenbaum talks about what might be locked in Salinger's safe, and when we might get to see it.

• Trauma at Home (On The Media: Friday, 05 February 2010)

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:52 am

  When we think of journalists experiencing trauma, we often think of war correspondents and yet trauma can happen in one’s own backyard. Two years ago, a shooting rampage in the small community of Kirkwood, Missouri left local journalists covering the murders of their friends and neighbors. Don Corrigan, editor of The Webster-Kirkwood Times, says he’s never seen journalism in the same light since that day.

• Game Time (On The Media: Friday, 05 February 2010)

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:43 am

  The typical televised football game lasts about three hours. But according to a recent study by The Wall Street Journal, only 11 minutes of that time is actually devoted to live play. Bob Fishman is a game director for CBS Sports, the person who decides what home viewers see and when they see it. He explains how he spends the other two hours and 49 minutes of a broadcast.

• Field Guide (On The Media: Friday, 05 February 2010)

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:36 am

  For years, the remarkable accuracy of video game football was the closest armchair quarterbacks could get to actual NFL play-on-the-field. The actual game inspired the virtual one. But increasingly, according to Chris Suellentrop in this month’s Wired Magazine, the trend has reversed. A generation of actual NFL players, raised on games like Madden NFL, are bringing the influence of video games into their real play.

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  NYT: Paul Krugman

• America Is Not Yet Lost

  7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  The way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government, and senators should change the rules to end obstructionism.

• Fiscal Scare Tactics

  4 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Fear-mongering on the deficit as part of the Republican political strategy could end up doing as much harm as the fear-mongering on weapons of mass destruction.

• Good and Boring

  31 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  We can learn from Canada’s regulatory habit of limiting the risk and leverage banks can accept, which helped protect that country from recessionary fallout.

• March of the Peacocks

  28 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Our budget problems won’t be solved with gimmicks like a temporary freeze in nondefense discretionary spending.

• The Bernanke Conundrum

  24 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm

  Ben Bernanke should be reappointed as chairman of the Federal Reserve only because rejecting him could make the Fed’s policies worse.

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  Phil Jones

• 27 Jan 2010 | 4:02 pm

  27 Jan 2010 | 4:02 pm

  Mashable : Google is now Apple’s greatest enemy

• 5 Dec 2009 | 3:59 pm

  5 Dec 2009 | 3:59 pm

  Stowe Boyd is predicting Yahoo / Facebook merger.

• 23 Nov 2009 | 12:17 pm

  23 Nov 2009 | 12:17 pm

  Android and ChromeOS will converge.Like all ostensibly sensible ideas, this is probably a bad one. The whole point of Android and ChromeOS, right now, is that they're "playful experiments", tweaking Microsoft's tail, exploring new markets. There's no point Google having a big, boring engineering consolidation project to bring them together. That's just going to alienate internal developers ("but this is my baby!") and confuse third-party developers ("shall we wait for the convergence?").Better to have a reasonably decent Android emulator running on the ChromeOS machine so that Chromebooks can…

• 17 Nov 2009 | 1:21 pm

  17 Nov 2009 | 1:21 pm

  Tim O'Reilly :It could be that everyone will figure out how to play nicely with each other, and we'll see a continuation of the interoperable web model we've enjoyed for the past two decades. But I'm betting that things are going to get ugly. We're heading into a war for control of the web. And in the end, it's more than that, it's a war against the web as an interoperable platform. Instead, we're facing the prospect of Facebook as the platform, Apple as the platform, Google as the platform, Amazon as the platform, where big companies slug it out until one is king of the hill. Update : don't…

• 3 Nov 2009 | 1:32 am

  3 Nov 2009 | 1:32 am

  Good overview of smart-phone market in light of latest Droid phone.Pundits seem to agree : motorola + android == win. Bad news for RIM, Palm and Nokia.

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  Phil Windley

• Build 424: Functions and Array Operators

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:52 am

  The latest build of the Kynetx Rule Language (KRL) provides a significant upgrade in capability with the addition of functions. We've also added some new array operators that take advantage of functions to make using arrays easier. KRL supports functions as first-class objects in the expression language. KRL supports only anonymous functions, but they can be given names by binding them to a variable in a declaration. Here's an example: pre { add5 = function(x) { x + 5 }; } Functions are evaluated statically (e.g. the environment they are defined in, not the environment they are executed in…

• Redirectionless OAuth Credentials Exchange

  6 Feb 2010 | 10:10 am

  Image via CrunchBase Am I missing something here? Twitter is working with select partners to test what is variously being called OAuth delegation or browserless OAuth credentials exchange method (not sure why browserless since it's not about the browser, it's about the redirection). The bottom line is that in an effort to be more user friendly, this removes the redirection to the Twitter site where you authoirize access by letting the third-party site (the site being delegated to) collect and then pass along the user's username and password to get the OAuth credentials. Abraham Williams…

• Subscription Models are Chic

  5 Feb 2010 | 7:09 am

  Image via CrunchBase A recent blog post by Dave McClure, the investor in charge of the Founders Fund seed investment program makes the assertion that "subscription models are the new black" and we've lost a decade of innovation by people living off the table scraps of Google's $10B pay-per-click ad system. (Warning: the blog post is pretty raw.) In a seeming non-sequiter, he moves on to talking about passwords. But pay attention, because what he's really doing is talking about friction in subscription models and the friction that they inpose. I think it's interesting that the iPhone app…

• CTO Breakfast Tomorrow - Free Pizza Tonight

  28 Jan 2010 | 5:59 am

  Tomorrow is the CTO Breakfast. I know, kind of late notice, but this one snuck up on me. I've been heads down with a major ope-heart surgery of the Kynetx rules engine. I'll tell you all about it tomorrow at the breakfast--refactoring code provides lots of opportunity for reflection on software development. The breakfast will be held in the usual place (Novell Cafeteria in Provo - map) at 8am. Anyone interested in how information technology is used to build products or run companies. Despite it's name, you don't have to be a CTO to attend--just interested in technology, where it's headed, and…

• Starting a High Tech Business: Do What's Important by Embracing the Urgent

  21 Jan 2010 | 7:42 am

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  Rex Hammock

• Real time can’t be limited to one company’s pipes and 140 characters

  Rex Hammock

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:49 am

  As readers of this blog know, I think it’s a weak crutch when journalists, bloggers and others use the hyphenated -killer to announce the new appearance of anything that will compete with an established leader in a category (for example, any new “smart-phone” is an iPod-killer). Simply put, the term “-killer” has become short-hand for “a new competitor that must climb Mt. Everest” to unseat the dominant leader in this category. Because Google is a Mt. Everest itself (when it comes to search and search-advertising), those of us who live in the world of…

• Google advertises in lots of good old fashioned ways

  Rex Hammock

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:40 am

  In his typical insightful way, master of the search universe Danny Sullivan provides a thorough breakdown of the Google ad that appeared on the Superbowl last night. In his post, he also runs down several past examples of Google using “traditional advertising,” including a TV campaign to support the Chrome browser, outdoor and some local radio to support AdSense. (I would add that as part of its holiday airport free wifi campaign, many of the airports had lots of “place-based” signage associated with the effort.) One thing Danny didn’t mention was Google’s…

• It’s was just a game

  Rex Hammock

  7 Feb 2010 | 6:46 pm

  It’s just a game. The Superbowl. The game is just a game — it’s between two teams of players, not the millions of us who sit in the stands and watch on TV. We’re just fans and we’re just talk. But every once in a while, the narrative — and the allegory — make the game more than just that battle out on the field. This year, the game was all about the team carrying on their shoulders the hopes and dreams of the people of post-Katrina New Orleans. And, well, in the process, for the rest of us who have known loss. Those of us who have ever faced the long…

• Are you working on an iPad app that can help content marketers – I’ll be happy to help

  Rex Hammock

  5 Feb 2010 | 5:51 am

  My “job” has changed radically over the past few years, so I understand why people have no idea what I do. The company I started 20 years ago, now called Hammock Inc., is in the business of developing and managing different types of content and custom media for marketers who are trying to achieve specific objectives. (Objectives being a buzzword that means something you can actually measure, not something that’s important- and lofty-sounding but has no yardstick — those are called goals. We’re into yardstick stuff.) So, yes, when publishing a magazine (what lots…

• Economic indicators: John Chambers vs. 200 Economics Bloggers

  Rex Hammock

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:16 pm

  Wednesday after the market closed, Cisco announced earnings that “trounced” analyst estimates. CEO John Chambers said, “We saw very strong, balanced growth from a year-over-year perspective in almost all of the major geographies and market segment categories,” he said. According to Reuters, “He sounded a bullish note for the rest of the technology industry, predicting a good chance of ’solid, sustainable economic growth.’” He said too that the company expects to add 2,000 to 3,000 over the next few quarters. I will remind you that Cisco serves…

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  Robert Scoble

• Why Google won’t give Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut tomorrow

  Robert Scoble

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:19 pm

  OK, I’ve given you the reasons why Google will be successful this time, but why won’t what they announce tomorrow give Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut? Funny aside, I found this photo of Matt Mullenweg (the entrepreneur behind Wordpress) getting a buzz cut by using Google’s Social Circles search. Some things that will keep Google from giving either Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut tomorrow (yes, I’ve been leaked some info about what’s coming tomorrow, so you gotta read in between the lines here): 1. Facebook has a defensible position in identity. Visit Huffington…

• The social failings of Google

  Robert Scoble

  8 Feb 2010 | 9:07 pm

  Orkut. Used it? I did back in 2002, but since then? No one I know uses it. Jaiku. Used it? I did back in 2006, but since then? No one I know uses it. Dodgeball. Used it? I did back in 2006, but since then? No one I know uses it. These are just a few of the failures Google has had trying to figure out the social space. Tomorrow they’ve invited a ton of journalists to see a new social effort. The headline on top of Techmeme screams “Twitter killer.” Um, I’ve learned in life that past behavior is the best predictor of future results. So, why is Google going to succeed…

• A TED responsibility

  Robert Scoble

  7 Feb 2010 | 11:09 pm

  The TED conference has given me a huge responsibility. They’ve handed me one of a small handful of press badges (as I understand it fewer than 10 are handed out every year). Regular tickets are $6,000 each and the conference was sold out more than a year ago (next year’s TED is already sold out). They do put a major restraint on the press covering the event: no filming, or recording of sessions. Another restraint? No computers in the main session unless you want to sit in the back row. OK, I can live with that. So I doubt you’ll see a view of TED like I got of Chris…

• Why if you miss Siri you’ll miss the future of the Web

  Robert Scoble

  7 Feb 2010 | 10:42 pm

  Siri is the most useful thing I’ve seen so far this year. But after playing with it, getting an interview with its CEO (video here on building43) it’s even more important for you to pay attention to. It is the best example of what the web will be. Let’s go back. Web 1994 was the “get me a domain and a page” era. Web 2000 was the “make my page(s) interactive and put people on it” era. Web 2010 is the “get rid of pages and glue APIs and people together” era. Siri is the best example. First, it’s not a website. It’s an application…

• Google’s two-front war with Apple and Facebook; who are the winners and the losers?

  Robert Scoble

  2 Feb 2010 | 12:53 am

  I’ve now heard from three separate Google employees that Google will release a news feed that will compete with Facebook and Twitter. I expect to see a demo at Google’s IO conference in April. For hints at what’s coming you MUST look at two foundation-level services: 1. Google Profiles. Google is asking you to voluntarily add all sorts of information about yourself. So far I’ve told it more than I’ve told Facebook or Twitter, here’s my Google Profile. Why? Because it’s available to all of you and this data gets added all sorts of places in the Google…

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  Seth Godin

• TEDthink

  Seth Godin

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am

  Can you factor this? If you're like most people, you get a little queasy at the thought. And when you were in tenth grade, you surely wondered why they were bothering you.(the answer is (x-2) times (x-2), in case you were curious.)It turns out that the real reason you needed to do this work was to be able to play with numbers in your head. Abstract numerical thought is an important skill among educated people.Which brings us to TED, a conference held every year in Long Beach. It's going on right now. Watch a few TED videos and try to get ahead of the speaker. They have an idea...it's probably…

• Frightened, clueless or uninformed?

  Seth Godin

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:57 am

  In the face of significant change and opportunity, people are often one of the three. If you're going to be of assistance, it helps to know which one.Uninformed people need information and insight in order to figure out what to do next. They are approaching the problem with optimism and calm, but they need to be taught. Uninformed is not a pejorative term, it's a temporary state.Clueless people don't know what to do and they don't know that they don't know what to do. They don't know the right questions to ask. Giving them instructions is insufficient. First, they need to be sold on what the…

• The least I could do

  Seth Godin

  7 Feb 2010 | 3:35 am

  One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that. That's actually what they spent most of my time at business school teaching me.No sense putting more on that pizza, sending more staff to that event, answering the phone in fewer rings... what's the point? No sense being kind, looking people in the eye, being open or welcoming or grateful. Doing the least acceptable amount is the way to maximize short term profit.Of course, there's a different strategy, a crazy alternative that seems to work: do the most you can do instead of the…

• iPad app of my dreams: the digital talking pad

  Seth Godin

  6 Feb 2010 | 8:10 am

  Here's the spec. If you build it and it's great, I'll use it and I'll blog it.A while ago, I posted about the talking pad and a modern version of it.I think there's a killer app version of this for the iPad, and I hope someone will build it. The talking pad is an interactive presentation tool for smart people.OverviewIt's a very simple concept: a collection of pages (slides, images, type, let's call them pages) that are easy to navigate in a non-linear way. Along with the standard zoom features, I'd like to be able to write on any of them in real time using my finger. I can also call up, on…

• The relentless search for "tell me what to do"

  Seth Godin

  6 Feb 2010 | 2:26 am

  If you've ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: "If you tell me what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not mine. I'm safe."When asked, resist.

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  Micro Persuasion

• Facebook Pulls Lexicon Analytics Tool

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:04 am

  Facebook has taken its promising Lexicon tool down from the site. Perhaps this happened when they pushed their new redesign. Lexicon, like Google Trends, provided limited yet interesting data on site-wide trends. You can read more about it here. From the Lexicon site.... "Thank you for your interest in Lexicon. We are removing the Lexicon product from Facebook for the time being. We may bring components of Lexicon back in the future, but we are focusing development on our analytics tools for Page owners, advertisers and Platform developers." Analytics remains a major focus…

• Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises - Social Media and PR Still Win

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:52 am

  Last week Edelman, my employer, published our tenth annual Trust Barometer study. You can read the full report here. One of the more juicy statistics that Advertising Age and others noted is that trust in peers surprisingly dropped dramatically from 47% to 27%. Tom Foremski says this is bad for PR: "This is bad news for PR agencies because social media has been the ‘point of the spear’ for so many firms. This is what brings in new business." While he's right that social media has been a big business driver, I respectfully disagree with Tom that this is bad news for the PR…

• Facebook Will Centralize the Social Web

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:31 am

  Michael Arrington laments about about the decentralized nature of social content on TechCrunch today... "The online social landscape today sort of feels to me like search did in 1999. It’s a mess, but we don’t complain much about it because we don’t know there’s a better way. You might be sick of hearing this from me, but strongly believe that Facebook is the next Google. It took me a while to "get religion," but now I have it. Just as Google brought a simple way to search the web, my observation is that Facebook is poised to do the same for organizing and -…

• Facebook Could Eat the Web

  4 Feb 2010 | 11:54 am

  Photo credit: mastermaq Like almost everyone else on the planet, it seems, I am spending more time on Facebook than any other site. The lone exception is Google. The reason I know this is that Safari, my browser, lists Facebook as my most visited site when I access its top sites feature. In addition to using Facebook to check in on what my family, friends and colleagues are up to, I have been using it as a newsreader for months. The screenshot below is my reader. This is something that the company suggested everyone do here. Although I suspect that most users haven't taken the steps…

• Go Big, Get Your Employees on the Bus or Go Home

  3 Feb 2010 | 9:10 am

  The following is also my column in next week's issue of Advertising Age. Go Big, Get Your Employees on the Bus or Go Home Photo credit: Traffic by scottpowerz The single biggest challenge that marketers face over the next ten years is attention scarcity. Bank on it. According to Andreas Weigland, Amazon.com's former chief scientist, more data was generated by individuals in 2009 than in the entire history of mankind. Human attention, however, is finite - and arguably, it shrinks as we age.  The end result is downright ugly. It's like 25 lanes of traffic trying to squeeze through two…

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  This Week with George Stephanopoulos

• This Week (02.07.10)

  ABC News

  7 Feb 2010 | 8:03 am

  ABC News' Jake Tapper sits down with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

• This Week (01.31.10)

  ABC News

  31 Jan 2010 | 8:03 am

  Barbara Walters sits down with Massachusetts Sen.-Elect Scott Brown.

• This Week (01.24.10)

  ABC News

  24 Jan 2010 | 8:03 am

  Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod previews speech and what's ahead.

• This Week (01.17.10)

  ABC News

  17 Jan 2010 | 7:44 am

  Bill Clinton and George W. Bush discuss relief efforts in Haiti with Jake Tapper.

• This Week (01.10.10)

  ABC News

  10 Jan 2010 | 7:38 am

  A talk with White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer.

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  Yvonne Burgess

• Unword Theatre

  Yvonne

  1 Feb 2010 | 3:14 pm

  Some things can’t be said – that’s why we have theatre.

• Intensely Exclusive

  Yvonne

  6 Oct 2009 | 11:12 pm

  it was an intense relationship _ in a direct and exclusive sort of way Intensely Exclusive If I remember rightly, this drawing came up at the end of an experiment in which I recently participated – an investigation into group learning using WoW as the platform. I don’t know if others consider that they have a relationship with their computers or what types of relationships those may be, but I found that, although we were focused on the interactions among  humans, my relationship to and with the “machine” (meaning both the computer and the software/environment) was…

• Here Now

  Yvonne

  1 Oct 2009 | 3:59 pm

  With the power of life she pointed, saying “Here. Now.” and so it was. Here Now There comes a time when you realize that the only place you can make a difference is here and the only time you really have to work with is now … that the shortest distance between whatever past you’ve come from and any future you might choose is now … the point of all possibility. And then you realize that soon after that, another “now” will be up for grabs very soon. Or your realize that if this “now” is working but this “here” ain’t cutting…

• Go Bow

  Yvonne

  30 Sep 2009 | 12:36 pm

  once she got her bow _ there was nothing could stop her! Go Bow This drawing started from the top: the figure started coming and I first noticed the hairbow. It wasn’t till it was done and I looked again that I saw the bow over her shoulder. So this is about getting your equipment and having the strength to use it. Pulling a bow and holding it steady is actually quite a challenge. My uncle taught me in Golden Gate Park somewhere when I was a kid, maybe only 10 or 11 years old. Sometimes you keep the equipment over your shoulder, and sometimes it’s on your head and only looks like…

• One Eye Open

  Yvonne

  28 Sep 2009 | 1:44 pm

  she had but one eye _ and it was open and clear so could, of course see much better than most One Eye Open Being a meditator, we hear a lot about the “Third Eye”. You need two eyes to see in the world, but to get at a true kind of knowing, one is usually better. Sometimes that’s all you need: an inner knowing, a spiritual summons, and that’s a different kind of seeing. In the drawings I’ve noticed that the eye is usually what makes the piece be something in particular. Until the eye is placed, it could be anything. Frequently, the eye is the last touch.