Book publishers battle Amazon over eBook pricing via @tuaw

6 02 2010


The Strange World of the Facebook Gift Shop via @thebigmoney

5 02 2010


Man saved on frozen sea by webcam spotter

3 02 2010


Enjoyed: The Future of Crowd Funding by Steve Rosenbaum @magnify via @MediaBizBloggers

2 02 2010


Enjoyed: The Future of Crowd Funding by Steve Rosenbaum @magnify via @MediaBizBloggers

2 02 2010


Just discovered, love: NFB.ca for documentaries and animated films

1 02 2010


Domino’s learns Twitter, Facebook lessons

30 01 2010


@dbenk @poynter: @IBM study finds online news use down among the young. I can’t find the study.

28 01 2010


For marketers, brands: @jowyang Four Social Media Trends for Business in 2010 (via @wearesocial).

28 01 2010


Nick Summers @newsweek: How Many Industries Will the Apple Tablet Upend? Pretty Much All of Them

27 01 2010


Nick Summers @newsweek: How Many Industries Will the Apple Tablet Upend? Pretty Much All of Them

27 01 2010


15 Most Annoying Types of Twitter Users @soshable via @guykawasaki

27 01 2010


Teacher, 100, gets degree a day before dying

27 01 2010


Important ideas from @rbole: An innovation agenda for public purpose media.

26 01 2010


@billgates has a new web site. Strange: A personal site, in third person.

22 01 2010

Climate change? Focus on the big goal, not the little one … but, wait, the little one is cool too:

"Because 2025 is too soon for innovation to be completed and widely deployed, behavior change still matters.

Still, the amount of CO2 avoided by these kinds of modest reduction efforts will not be the key to what happens with climate change in the long run."



Correlation: Size of three brain structures: How well you’ll do on a video game

21 01 2010

Psychologists say they can predict how well you'll do on a video game by looking at the size of just three little structures inside your brain.



Apps, ebook pricing: It’s Amazon vs. Apple @NYTimes.com

21 01 2010


Jaron Lanier seeks value for creation

20 01 2010

Jaron Lanier in WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703481004574646402192953052.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

"It turns out that millions of people are ready to contribute instead of sitting passively on the couch watching television. On the other hand, we made a huge mistake in making those contributions unpaid, and often anonymous, because those bad decisions robbed people of dignity. I am appalled that our old fantasies have become so entrenched that it's hard to get anyone to remember that there are alternatives to a framework that isn't working."

Caterina Fake in HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caterina-fake/participatory-media-and-w_b_428053.html

"I've never heard anyone assert, as he appears to think everyone in the digital arena is constantly asserting, that "collectives make the best stuff" — quite the opposite. Everyone agrees that 99% of everything is crap."



Jaron Lanier seeks value for creation

20 01 2010

Jaron Lanier in WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703481004574646402192953052.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

"It turns out that millions of people are ready to contribute instead of sitting passively on the couch watching television. On the other hand, we made a huge mistake in making those contributions unpaid, and often anonymous, because those bad decisions robbed people of dignity. I am appalled that our old fantasies have become so entrenched that it's hard to get anyone to remember that there are alternatives to a framework that isn't working."

Caterina Fake in HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caterina-fake/participatory-media-and-w_b_428053.html

"I've never heard anyone assert, as he appears to think everyone in the digital arena is constantly asserting, that "collectives make the best stuff" — quite the opposite. Everyone agrees that 99% of everything is crap."



MIA: “F*** New York Times!!!!!!” (GRAPHIC IMAGE) via @HuffingtonPost

13 01 2010