Monthly Archives: January 2012

Watterson’s World: Sunday Study Sunday « The Bygone Bureau

Watterson’s World: Sunday Study Sunday « The Bygone Bureau

Symbolicons :: Clean & Stylish Vector Icons

Symbolicons :: Clean & Stylish Vector Icons Free drink icons

What Would It Take to Kill Hollywood? And Should We Try? | ThinkProgress

What Would It Take to Kill Hollywood? And Should We Try? | ThinkProgress Clueless. You don’t kill Hollywood by competing directly with it. You kill Hollywood by creating business models that do end-arounds of Hollywood’s content gatekeeping.

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: Can you tell whether a company is in trouble by the words its employees use?

Can you tell whether a company is in trouble by the words its employees use? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree

Starbucks in Starbucks

Starbucks in Starbucks

How Sharing Disrupts Media : CJR

How Sharing Disrupts Media : CJR Facebook and Google have become two of the biggest media companies in the world in extremely short amounts of time, precisely because they don’t have much interest in owning any content.

Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: The Market For Reblogging

The Market For Reblogging Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

n+1: Sad as Hell

n+1: Sad as Hell “…in choosing the internet I am choosing not to be a certain sort of alive. Days seem over before they even begin, and I have nothing to show for myself other than the anxious feeling that I now know just enough to engage in conversations I don’t care about.”

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Magazine

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Magazine

A.G. Lafley vs. Steve Jobs – Scott Anthony

A.G. Lafley vs. Steve Jobs – Scott Anthony “Where people spend their time reflects their priorities better than what they say.”

Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What’s an easy way to improve how African Americans score on IQ tests?

What’s an easy way to improve how African Americans score on IQ tests? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree

Blog: Bronx Banter: A World Apart

A World Apart Alex Belth, Bronx Banter

Flickr: Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth – Blue Marble 2012

Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth – Blue Marble 2012 by NASA Goddard Photo and Video January 25, 2012 A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken […]

Nick Szabo — The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments

Nick Szabo — The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments For example, comparing the personal value of a large, diverse set of low-priced goods might require a mental expenditure greater than the prices of those goods (where mental expenditure may be measurable as the opportunity costs of not engaging in mental labor for wages, or of […]

Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content

Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content This strategy doesn’t work, because the act of buying anything, even if the price is very small, creates what Nick Szabo calls mental transaction costs, the energy required to decide whether something is worth buying or not, regardless of price.

Why Small Payments Won’t Save Publishers « Clay Shirky

Why Small Payments Won’t Save Publishers « Clay Shirky The other key piece of background isn’t about small payments themselves, but about the conversation. Such systems solve no problem the user has, and offer no service we want.

The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky

The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky When the value of complexity turns negative, a society plagued by an inability to react remains as complex as ever, right up to the moment where it becomes suddenly and dramatically simpler, which is to say right up to the moment of collapse. Collapse is simply […]

The Technium: The Shirky Principle

The Technium: The Shirky Principle “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky

How Do We Identifiy Good Ideas?

How Do We Identifiy Good Ideas? Take time off to properly value your own ideas.

Blog: Wired Science » Frontal Cortex: How Do We Identifiy Good Ideas?

How Do We Identifiy Good Ideas? Jonah Lehrer, Wired Science » Frontal Cortex