October 2010
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Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
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Ten Crack Commandments: Notoriously B.I.G....
After speaking with @aweissman and @EghosaO about the tao of Christopher Wallace a while ago, I decided to put together a little end of the year post regarding how to run your digital social startup business like Biggie Smalls and become notoriously big: Never let no one know how much dough you hold.  The cheddar breed jealousy.  Greed and hubris have turned many a king into a jester.  As the...
Oct 28th
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“Even if ten million people in this country buy your album, that means 250...”
– My friend Ruth Gerson quotes producer Don Dixon while exploring the difference between artist criticism and artist judgment in music journalism. There’s a huge lesson in the above for all who dare to build audience and weather critics [via http://huff.to/aNdO4r].
Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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“The blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed...”
– Dr. Cornel West
Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 20th
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“We see tremendous value in having Apple, rather than our users, be the systems...”
– Steve Jobs during his iPhone vs. Android rant during their earnings call today.  Strangely, the entire 5 minute diatribe provides a window into Apple’s deft marketing.  Though Apple would never do a feature by feature comparison between iOS and Android in marketing literature for potential...
Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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“Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night.”
– June Cleaver, R.I.P.
Oct 18th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 15th
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Oct 13th
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“The middle class is over. It’s not coming back Remember travel agents?...”
– Douglas Coupland is a genius radical pessimist.  The whole piece is a realistc dystopian vision of what life may be like in 2020.  A must read for any armchair futurist.
Oct 11th
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“If as many people really listened to Joy Division as list them on their Facebook...”
– Trent Reznor on Why Facebook “Sucks” / Music News // Drowned In Sound (via drownedinsoundcloud) Boom.  (via david-noel) gbattle sez: Actually, it’s more complicated than that.  Given that Trent Reznor’s anecdotal access on Facebook is really limited to his own friends and friends of...
Oct 11th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 9th
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From Live to Living: Sentient Content →
John Borthwick’s blog always inspires thought for me, and his recent post regarding how we define, refine and measure conversation with respect to time in light of the AOL purchase of TechCrunch triggered a few ideas of my own.  See my comment below. ==== The part that resonates here is the ownership question - who owns the [content] experience?  Clearly, as Arrington has voiced, it takes...
Oct 9th
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“There’s no difference. It’s only when manipulation is obvious, then...”
– Hollywood writer/director Aaron Sorkin’s answer when asked to explain the difference between language that convinces and language that manipulates in Dr. Frank Luntz’s “Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear.”
Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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Factoid of the Day: This October has 5 Fridays, 5...
Oct 2nd
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Oct 1st
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“Find a smart blogger who has your disease.”
– CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen reporting on “The Empowered Patient.”  Has it really come to this?  Really?
Oct 1st
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Oct 1st