March 2009
41 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
Phish (28)
Bon Iver (13)
The Killers (12)
Bob Dylan (9)
Coldplay (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
MyID.is Now In Public Beta, Aims To Become The... →
Digital certification platform MyID.is is taking a crack at offering a way for people to claim their real identity online, in order to be able to prevent ID theft and to verify content they…
Microsoft's New Ad: 'I'm Just Not Cool... →
Shared by Jake Levine
What is this? Why would I follow the example of someone who doesn’t know anything about computers and is “drawn” to the look of some random HP. I bought a bike when I was…
Creative Commons on Flickr: Users Prefer... →
Flickr now holds the world’s largest repository of Creative Commons-licensed images, but according to a new study, most Flickr users opt to license their images under the most restrictive…
CNBC Has Already Said 'Twitter' 24 Times Today →
CNBC has caught the Twitter obsession.
Twitter CEO Evan Williams has already made one (pre-taped) appearance on NBC’s business network today, and he’s supposed to be back on this hour.
…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-22) →
Radiohead (14)
Max Richter (10)
Otis Redding (9)
Taj Mahal (8)
Cloud Cult (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Wow, really?
jstn:
jessenovak:
I don’t know...
“But how will Google ever make money? There’s the rub. The company’s adamant...”
– “Will Google’s Purity Pay Off?” BusinessWeek, Dec 7, 2000 - via “Remember When Everyone Wondered How Google Was Going To Make Money” - cdixon.org (via bijan)
TweetDeck Joins The Facebook Connect Army →
Shared by Jake Levine
Activity stream overload. It’ll be interesting to see how people deal with the ability to 1) aggregate all friend data (twitter+facebook) and 2) syndicate across different…
“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the...”
– Clay Shirky - Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Ok last one, I promise. Some thoughts on this tomorrow if I have some free time.
“It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry,...”
– Clay Shirky - Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
“And so it is today. When someone demands to know how we are going to replace...”
– Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky (via bijan)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-15) →
Phish (69)
TV on the Radio (25)
M83 (10)
Mahavishnu Orchestra (9)
Radiohead (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Twenty Years Later, The Web Is Finally Turning... →
Shared by Jake Levine
Link from TechCrunch:
Today, the Web turns 20 years old. In the TED talk embedded above, Tim Berners-Lee recalls how he invented the World Wide Web twenty years ago….
TumblRSS (An Unfortunate Tale) →
I reblogged this yesterday and removed it after I saw the link was down. This is a sad thing, so I decided to write Tumblr a letter:
Dear Tumblr,
Your dashboard is a powerful tool. Further, I would argue that the Tumblr dashboard is the single most valuable part of the Tumblr experience. You bring great value to your users by creating a vibrant ecosystem for communal exchange and content...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-8) →
In the Heights (23)
Radiohead (18)
Neko Case (16)
Phish (11)
Thom Yorke (9)
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Bad Bank!
In a kind of sequel to an episode many of you may have heard (Giant Pool of Money), This American Life explains the financial crisis in normal words. Definitely worth a listen if you haven’t already…
Bad Bank
And also if you missed this last year… Giant Pool of Money
Watchstreeter:
Horray!
This is incredible.
Alex Payne — Towards Better Technology Journalism →
An important call for an adjustment in reporting standards for a grown up industry.
Kindle Above the Level of a Single Device →
Hey, I’m happy to see this in the news today: Amazon.com will begin selling e-books for reading on Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod Touch. Starting Wednesday, owners of these Apple devices can…
Cleaner pages (for reading and importing)
43folders:
arc90 lab : experiments : Readability
Terrific, customizable bookmarklet attempts to reduce any web page to just the part you want to read — no ads, no janky css, or what have you — kinda similar to one piece of Marco’s insanely great Instapaper.
This bookmarklet’s certainly useful in its own right for tidier and less distracted on-screen reading, but it’s also useful...
Fwd: David Brent is now following you on Twitter!
Begin forwarded message:
From: Twitter >Date: March 3, 2009 3:40:06 PM EST
Subject: David Brent is now following you on Twitter!
Hi, Jake Levine (jrlevine).
David Brent (davidbrent) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Check out David Brent’s profile here: http://twitter.com/davidbrent
Best, Twitter
iPhone Cover of MGMT Kids →
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman: Expand The H-1B... →
Mars Turns Skittles.com Over To Twitter →
Candy-maker Mars Inc. turned Skittles.com into a Twitter search results page and it’s created quite the stir in the online marketing community. We asked iCrossing’s senior social media…
Caving into bullies (aka, here we go again) →
From Lawrence Lessig:
Amazon has caved into demands from the Authors Guild that it disable the ability of the Kindle to read a book aloud. This is very bad news.
We had this battle before. In 2001, Adobe…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-1) →
In the Heights (10)
Taj Mahal (10)
Radiohead (6)
Talking Heads (4)
The Beatles (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A Look at Bangkok →
From Cooper’s Blog:
Khoasan Road - basically a long street filled with open air restaurants/bars, massage parlors, tailors, and street vendors selling anything and everything.
Thai street food. Pad…