November 2009
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“Tonight, there will be a reunion. Are you ready for a summit at The Garden? ...”
– Bruce Springsteen introducing Billy Joel at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert on HBO.
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“Let me put it this way. I started broke and I’m now a billionaire. And I never...”
– Liberty Media’s Malone To Heckler (via rickyv)
gbattle sez:
John Malone is probably one of the savviest businessmen in media, period. When my former boss, Bob Johnson, had the idea in the late 70’s to start Black Entertainment Television and shopped the idea, John Malone loaned him the...
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Clifford Brown - “Daahoud”. My Uncle...
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The New Mastersounds ft. Corinne Bailey Rae -...
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Omar ft. Erykah Badu - “Be Thankful”...
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“Life is really simple as far as I’m concerned. There is no luck, you work hard...”
– Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc. and Mahalo (via hiten)
Rafer sez: That’s all well and good if you think there’s some reason beyond random chance that your physical health, mental health, and mental aptitude are up to the task. I don’t. No matter which position you take on how you gained...
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Jungle Brothers - “J. Beez Comin’...
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Ideation #1: Time In A Bottle
Note: I’m starting a new series of “Ideation” posts where I just throw out startup ideas I’ve had that I have no time and no inclination to work on. The point is to get them out there in a succinct enough manner (3 questions, 3 answers) so I don’t have to waste mental shelf space. If you run with any of these ideas, attribution is all I request, but cash/equity/paid...
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newspeedwayboogie:
The Cult - She Sells...
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The Cult - “Love Removal Machine” -...
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“Men lie. Women lie. Numbers don’t.”
– Jay-Z’s acceptance speech at the American Music Awards.
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“Just look at the conceptual abortion that is the new retweet functionality:...”
– Paul Carr laying down the law on why Twitter’s Retweet function sucks.
ANNOTATION » ATTRIBUTION
People value the story more than the footnotes.
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The Black Keys ft. Raekwon - “Stay Off The...
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The Ohio Players - “Ecstasy”. The...
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Lewis Taylor - “Everybody Here Wants...
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“I Text Allegiance,
To The Flag,
Of The United States of American Apparel,
And...”
– Stephen Colbert’s reworking of the Pledge of the Allegiance 2.0 to be this year’s Tickle-Me-Elmo.
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“Word processing didn’t create more Shakespeares.”
– Screenwriter and director Hue Rhodes on Cliqology speaking about democratization of technology vs. quality artistic production. His film, Saint John of Las Vegas, comes out in February, 2010. Support my friends.
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De La Soul - “Verbal Clap” - The...
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Easy Star All Stars ft. Gary ‘Nesta’...
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8 Bit Construction Set -...
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Eumir Deodato - “Theme From Peter...
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Jay Collins - “Come And Go Blues”...
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Mike Stern - “Freddie Freeloader” -...
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WatchAnya Marina - “Whatever You Like”.
“It ain’t trickin’ if you got it” … nice T.I. cover.
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Pomplamoose - “September” (EW&F...
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“This hostility must seem perfectly sensible if you’re an old man who has your...”
– Ryan Tate (via soupsoup)
gbattle sez:
As companies and individuals generate more and more indexable content, the idea of give a penny, take a penny for search in the face of such pissing matches by big media types like Murdoch becomes very possible. What if Google blocked access to their search...
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Twitter Lists: Missing Magic Musings
I wrote a post a few weeks ago entitled “Twitter Lists aka $100mm to Copy Blogrolls” where I detailed the folly and promise of Twitter Lists - glorified blogrolls/OPML but a step in the right direction if combined with other tools like search.
Friend and founder of TGroups/TLists, @jonathanglick, asked me to blog about my Tweet stating that Twitter Lists were overpromised and...
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Hubert Laws - “Moment’s...