December 2008
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Listen Freddie Hubbard - “Blues For Miles”....
Dec 30th
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Listen Wes Montgomery - “Besame Mucho”. A...
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“Innovation is the rejection of best practices.”
– Me, just now, while taking a nap.
Dec 28th
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Listen Aretha Franklin - “Twas the Night Before...
Dec 28th
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Listen The Three Tenors - “Feliz Navidad”....
Dec 26th
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“As these companies struggle to adapt, the methods of doing business that worked...”
– Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, preface to his 1996 book, Only the Parinoid Survive.  The Big 3 automakers and autoworkers may want to look toward Silicon Valley’s oracles for answers on how to maneuver amdist apparent global chaos.
Dec 26th
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Listen Roland Kirk - “We Three Kings” - We...
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 22nd
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“Curiosity, initiative, tenacity, ability to reason logically, ability to...”
–  Bjarne Stroustrup answering the question “What makes a great developer?” (via iwc) There was time when I could quote Stroustrup’s and Lippman’s legendary books, chapter and verse.  Those tomes were about the closest I’ve ever come to literally wearing a book out.
Dec 21st
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Listen Esperanza Spalding - “Ponta de...
Dec 21st
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Listen Cheech & Chong - “Santa Claus and His...
Dec 20th
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Listen Notorious B.I.G. ft. The Game and Faith Evans -...
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Listen Top Billin Part 2 - “Still...
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Listen Ozzy Osbourne w/Dweezil Zappa -...
Dec 17th
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Quitting Verizon →
notthatkindagay: frothyparadise: Well. I think it’s safe to say that this guy isn’t too too concerned with burning bridges. I’m going to try to weave “RTFM” into my daily vernacular. I had RTFM as a programming language on my first resume which I was forced to explain to the bemusement of Bell Labs trained scientist future boss.  It’s an old MIT term.  There was a great anonymous ftp...
Dec 17th
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Listen Robben Ford - “Revelation”. ...
Dec 17th
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My Response to Aaron Cohen's Response to Fred... →
josephweisenthal: mikehudack: innonate: gbattle: Aaron Cohen’s response to Fred Wilson’s post.  Below is my humble reply. 7.  Move GM out of Detroit? No, move GM out of the country.  GM should be run like Nike, which is a US based marketing company that exports production to the cheapest producers.  The American future is about owning brands, not PP&E (power, plant and equipment). ...
Dec 15th
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My Response to Aaron Cohen's Response to Fred... →
Aaron Cohen’s response to Fred Wilson’s post.  Below is my humble reply. ===== Hey Aaron.  As a social liberal / fiscal conservative, I too lean with the Republicans on the auto bailout issue.  The problem is that the democrats and Bush have have conflated a financial issue into a social issue.  A few brief notes on your points. 1. Cerberus isn’t involved with GM, they are...
Dec 15th
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Dec 12th
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I got a tweet from @askfrasco asking if I wanted to get a tarot card reading over ustream.  These are the results.  Better than $5.99/minute.  Miss Cleo better watch out!
Dec 9th
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“You make a living with what you get. You make a life with what you give.”
– Quincy Jones
Dec 8th
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“Black Swans are now as common as pigeons.”
– My friend Chad Patel’s GTalk away message
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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soupsoup: Timbaland and Chris Cornell create an album together : Inspiration Sessions on Sundance. Wowzers.  Talk about two people I would have never paired to work together.  I had to think about this for a minute and then it clicked.  Timbaland has been on record for at least 5 years that hiphop as a pure artistic medium is dead.  I can see how he’d want to expand.  But Chris...
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Listen James Brown - “Soulful Christmas”. ...
Dec 6th
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Listen Grant Greene - “Ain’t It Funky...
Dec 6th
URL Shorteners Redux: Winning Strategy
I applaud your verve Kortina, and you know I also think a bit(ly) about the utility and future of URL shorteners. We can probably agree that the URL shortening market has been and will continue to be driven in the short term by the limits imposed by microblogging formats like Twitter. The promise of something more in terms of historical metrics, collective insight, search and discovery has yet...
Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Listen Johnny Guitar Watson - “Superman...
Dec 4th
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Listen Heart - “Magic Man”.  If you...
Dec 4th
Thoughts on TechMeme's Editorial Injection
I’ve had the pleasure of studying (ok, reverse engineering) most of the good automated news services and always enjoyed yours as it takes some smart shortcuts to implicitly measure popularity, similarity, freshness and reputation. The interesting thing to me is how long you held out against a curatorial/editorial layer, when literally every other automated/social aggregator has an editorial...
Dec 4th
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Listen Eric B and Rakim - “Know the Ledge”....
Dec 3rd
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URL Shorteners: A Case for Vanity
The huge problem with URL shorteners is that the more popular any singular service becomes, the longer the URL becomes and their utility decreases (just look at tinyurl lately). I had an idea after chatting with Kortina yesterday about Quantcast and Comscore not really counting the ANAMES and even the subdomains for Tumblr correctly (as an aside, I’d be curious to measure how incestuous...
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Listen MC Lyte - “Listen Up”.  A rare cut...
Dec 1st