Month: June 2013
June 17, 2013
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Don’t Vine and Drive!
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Sprint Nextel part of Softbank founder Masayoshi Son’ 300-year plan | FP Tech Desk | Financial Post
In 2010, Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of Softbank Corp., laid out a plan for the next 300 years. For a start, he would invest in 5,000 companies by 2040, giving his unborn successors a base to build on. Son’s ambitions have made him Japan’s second-richest man, with a fortune estimated at…
June 16, 2013
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The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation – Technology Review
One of modern physics’ most cherished ideas is quantum chromodynamics, the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, how it binds quarks and gluons into protons and neutrons, how these form nuclei that themselves interact. This is the universe at its most fundamental. So an interesting pursuit…
June 15, 2013
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Home alone on a Saturday night watching, uh, “Magic Mike”.
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T-rex trying…
http://trextrying.tumblr.com
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Grover Washington Jr
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Souls of Mischief
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A VC: Public Sharing vs Private Sharing
Alexis Madrigal has an interesting post up on The Atlantic about "dark social" vs "public social" . Alexis makes the point that private sharing via email, IM, and other means drives more traffic around the web than public social services like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. Alexis makes…
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I know 3 types of marketing that work on me for sure. Tweeting, email campaigns and retargeting banner ads.
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“Good Leaders Don’t Use Bad Words”:
http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2013/06/good-leaders-dont-use-bad-word.html
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The Movie Network has some rather odd choices in their “Father’s Day” category. pic.twitter.com/kCX2pn2vv0
June 14, 2013
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There is a sing-along showing of R Kelly’s “Trapped In The Closet” at the Bell Lightbox Saturday.
http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffbelllightbox/2013/2330022471
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BTW, I’m not trying to diminish rape/rape culture by equating it with joke theft or heckling. It’s just fascinating HOW he changed his mind.
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tl;dr @pattonoswalt now understands from women’s POV by putting it into that context.
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tl;dr @pattonoswalt felt sting of “joke-theft culture” and “heckle culture” but didn’t relate to “rape culture” – outside his experience.
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The @pattonoswalt piece is long and meandering but worth it. Understanding others is hard work.
http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=167
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“The Unbearable Lightness of #iOS7”
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Rands In Repose: The Elegant Email
For me, the amount of email that arrives is inversely proportionate to my amount of free time. This means the less time I have to read mail, the more mail that arrives. Greater minds than mine have attempted to tackle this unfortunate time management situation, so I’m going to keep it simple. You…
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In some alternate universe Elvis Costello is called Jerry Lee Abbott.
June 13, 2013
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Cataracts for Customers | Customer Commons
Let’s say you have an iPhone, and your carrier is AT&T.* That puts you deep inside what Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) calls a confusopoly (and illustrates here ). His text explanation : A confusopoly is a situation in which companies pretend to compete on price, service, and features but in fact…
June 12, 2013
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Smart. MT @davegillis: iOS 7 icons were designed by competing teams at Apple (including print & web marcom folks):
http://tnw.to/c0Z8w
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The “Your Call Is Important To Us” Festival
RT @jjg: Idea: Music festival featuring only bands who play conference call hold music.
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Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
Here’s a pocket history of the web, according to many people. In the early days, the web was just pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you wanted among all that information. Some time around 2003 or maybe 2004, the social web really kicked…
June 11, 2013
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Gawker, Reddit, Free Speech and Such – Whatever
I’ve been watching with some interest the drama surrounding Gawker writer Adrian Chen revealing Reddit user/celeb/moderator/troll Violentacrez’s real life identity (Michael Brutsch), which among other things resulted in Brutsch losing his job , presumably because Brutsch’s employer was not 100%…
June 10, 2013
June 9, 2013
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Whatever Happened to Movies for Grownups? : The New Yorker
I still love going to a theatre with strangers—even a screening room with near-strangers—and submitting to an overwhelming experience in the dark. It’s a primal romantic-religious hope, and when the movie is good, the pleasure is enormous. Have you ever noticed the faces of people streaming out of a…
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The big fat truth : Nature News & Comment
http://j.mp/ZlgBRw
(via Instapaper)