Etaoin Shrdlu (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Let us start with Plato and finish with Dave Pell, with a little Jeff Jarvis mixed in to help bind it all together. Sometime around 370 BC Plato held forth against the invention of writing, a mere crutch that would cause memory to atrophy while offering only a pale reflection of discourse in its place. The fact is that this invention will produce forgetfulness in the souls of those who have
Inc.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Tour a Start-up's Office: The Gawker edition. Gawker Media, the parent company behind blogs like Valleywag and io9, has been experiencing a growth spurt of 40 percent year-over-year. Now Silicon Alley Insider takes us inside CEO Nick Denton's "steampunk" headquarters in downtown New York as part of its new tour a startup photo feature. What should you expect from inside the belly of the...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
We stopped by Gawker Media's New York headquarters earlier this week and asked owner Nick Denton how's business. He told us: Gawker reached 394 million pageviews in October. Revenues were growing at a 40% y/y pace earlier this year, but Nick Denton says, "I don't think we'll sustain quite the same rate of growth that we had in first half." We also brought our camera along for the visit....
N=1 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Free gets you to a place where you can ask to get paid." Fred Wilson "Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings." Albert Dunning Today's...
Google Blogoscoped (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dan Siroker is the founder of kid's learning games site CarrotSticks.com. Before that, he was involved with the Obama campaign as deputy new media director; prior to that, Dan was a product manager for Google Chrome. This email interview was made possible with the friendly help of the Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference (December 7-11 this year), where Dan Siroker -- as well as Jeff Jarvis,...
The Constant Observer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
My good buddy Lisa Williams (founder of Placeblogger.com) found something very interesting today when she checked out @WSJ's Alan Murray's new Twitter list for The Future of Journalism : there are no women on this list. What gives, @WSJ? There are loads of women news innovators, who are creating the future of the news NOW, not just postulating about it. And it's not just Lisa, but Amy Gahran who also...
Mike Hudack (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
“The US government is ambivalent about social benefits, like public health, because Americans don’t believe that we are all in this together. The sentiment for right-leaning and moderate Americans is every man for himself. The rich look out for themselves and convince the bourgeois the poor have no one to blame but themselves.” - Stowe Boyd (via ambivalence ) (via tedr ) The fact...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Gawker Media, one of the most powerful and popular blogging networks in existence, has reported a total of 394 million pageviews in October across their network. Nick Denton released an image, see below, detailing the total pageviews across the Gawker Media network websites. Gizmodo won, coming in with a stunning 126 million page views in October. The [...]
Flypaper - Stuck on Style (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Why did I not see this before? "Style Rookie" blogger Tavi Gevinson and legendary fashion columnist Lynn Yaeger are totally " ragamuffin chic " style twins. Watch Tavi explain her intellectual approach to fashion below. More... > Check out Lynn Yaeger's fashion coverage on The Cut > Read Tavi's blog > VOTE: Which Blogger Rocks It Best? > Our fave fall '09 trends
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Oakland Local is a new non-profit community resource for news and information about Oakland, CA that was recently launched by Susan Mernit. Our site combines original investigative and feature reporting with community news and information about Oakland non-profit organizations, community groups and engaged citizens. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Twitter, Facebook [...]...
tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A couple weeks ago I attended the fall board meeting for Augsburg Fortress . Augsburg is a publisher affiliated with the ELCA , which is the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. My connection to Augsburg is a result of a speech I gave to a group of leaders in the ELCA several years, and has been a remarkable experience for the last two years. It’s remarkable for several reasons:...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--One message that remains consistent throughout the debate on health care reform is the government's "ultimate vision" that "all patients are fully engaged in their health care."* A key arena in which this is being addressed is on the Web with health-focused services for consumers. At the opening keynote talk for the World Healthcare Innovation and...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Carly Fiorina, former chief executive at Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, is expected to announce this morning her candidacy for the U.S. Senate in California. She’ll be gunning for the Republican nomination against Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, and if successful would go up against Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer as she seeks a fourth Senate term. She goes into detail about her reasons for...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Like Jeremy Zawodny, I’ve had persistent issues with Intel Video since the Jaunty release of Ubuntu. The short version is that the fancy effects that I eventually came to depend on stopped working after the Intrepid release of the distribution. Both Jaunty and Karmic include Intel video drivers – and I’ve tried every bleeding edge [...]
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Jeff Jarvis makes an excellent point about Twitter (and all similar services): Twitter is temporary. Streams are fleeting. If the future of the web after the page and the site and SEO is streams and I believe at least part of it will be then we risk losing information, ideas, and the permanent points the permalinks around which we used to coalesce. In this regard, Twitter is to web pages what web...
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