March 2009
21 posts
“Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened...”
– Chögyam Trungpa
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“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are...”
– Clay Shirkey in his essay Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
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“We’re going to look back at many facets of old media and realize that we were...”
– Steve Berlin Johsnson in his speech Old Growth Media and the Future of News
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Is there anyone who works for AIG that can tell us... →
“Like i said earlier now with people like me and you becoming even more irate with this new scandal of 74 bonuses, my friends who work directly with AIG have been furiously taking their corporate stock shares and moving them elsewhere, have been updating their resumes, using any type of social out puts to get new leads at a different companies, and have been using up all of their available...
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Rafiki by Zap Mama from the album A Ma Zone
WatchCute hummingbird returns year after year for closeup videos.
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How Rich Countries Die →
“Citizens won’t bother to inform themselves about public policy, especially the details. Given the lack of influence of a single vote, it doesn’t make sense for a non-specialist to invest the time. Olson says this is why we have a progressive income tax, obvious to all voters, and a lot of obscure loopholes that benefit the wealthy and influential. He notes that the benefits of Medicare...
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Wolfram getting ready to drop some science →
Wolfram and company have spent the last few years developing, in secret, some kind of amazing thing that sounds too good to be true. It’s called Wolfram Alpha, and is apparently an online expert system that can answer natural language queries on a vast array of subjects, computing the answers for you on the fly:
Wolfram’s team manually entered, and in some cases automatically pulled...
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The Story of Deep Capture →
In 2006 a Columbia Journalism Review editor (a seasoned journalist formerly with Time magazine in Asia, The Wall Street Journal Europe, and The Far Eastern Economic Review) called me to discuss suspicions he was forming about the US financial media. I gave him leads but warned, “Chasing this will take you down a rabbit hole with no bottom.” For months he pursued his story against pressure and...
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Search Patterns: A sandbox for collecting search... →
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Emotionally Unavailable Until Famous →
“Timothy Leary said “The universe is an intelligence test.” This line captures the attitude I had well into my 30’s (I’m 43), and I’m happy that it doesn’t anymore. Around that age, I started thinking more about mortality and failure and accepting their inevitability— which in turn made me appreciate the preciousness of life. What did I want to do...
