October 2011
18 posts
“The story of the last three decades, in other words, is not the story of a...”
– What Tax Dollars Can’t Buy - NYTimes.com
Oct 30th
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“In 2001, Frederic Brochet conducted two experiments at the University of...”
– ‘You Are Not So Smart’: Why We Can’t Tell Good Wine From Bad - David McRaney - Life - The Atlantic
Oct 30th
“In the early ’80s, Pepsi ran a marketing campaign where they touted the...”
– ‘You Are Not So Smart’: Why We Can’t Tell Good Wine From Bad - David McRaney - Life - The Atlantic
Oct 30th
“Martin Wolf is right. This is a challenge to the right, as much as to the left....”
– Right, Left, And Inequality - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
Oct 29th
“What’s killing newspapers isn’t the lack of new ideas, it’s people who obstruct...”
– Cheezburger’s Ben Huh: Weingarten is confusing journalism with the business of newspapers - Ask The Post - The Washington Post
Oct 29th
“When it comes to the ever-growing ad tech world, publishers can sometimes just...”
– Digiday - DPS Highlights: Why Ad Tech is Scary for Publishers
Oct 28th
“The folks over at Cheezburger are masters of user-generated content — obtaining...”
– Have it your way on Cheezburger with new personalized Web pages - GeekWire A New Zombie Site on Cheezburger
Oct 28th
“Rather than raise taxes on individuals, we should “lower the amount of...”
– The Divider vs. the Thinker - WSJ.com
Oct 28th
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“There’s a lot to rebel against, to want to throw off. If they want to make...”
– The Divider vs. the Thinker - WSJ.com
Oct 28th
“Non-college grads also have seen declining wages, and so one can look at the...”
– Why the current revenue model of higher education is in trouble — Marginal Revolution More evidence for the bursting of the higher education bubble.
Oct 27th
Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC:... →
jayparkinsonmd: So for the past month I’ve been laying all the groundwork for my next company. It’s called Sherpaa. The branding and the site are coming together nicely and the legal side of things is too. Here’s what Sherpaa will do: A few weeks ago, I received an email from a friend of a friend who was… This is medical reform I can rally around…
Oct 21st
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Continuations: The B Corporation →
continuations: I attended an interesting lunch yesterday on something called the B Corporation. It is an effort to formally write the idea of triple bottom line businesses into corporate law and provide the standards to go along with that. Today’s common form of organization is the C Corporation which has as… If I were started a company, then I would seriously look into a B Corp.  The C...
Oct 21st
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“Don’t try to say this is a privacy thing. It. is. not. How exactly does this...”
– Dear Google: This is war | Search News Central Lots of bullshit getting called on Google for claiming that they are removing keyword queries for security reasons. This is a great rant. (via tedr) I honestly don’t quite understand the hysteria at this moment w/r/t google’s hiding of...
Oct 21st
“Disclosure: Google Plus bought my love by including me on its list of Suggested...”
– World’s Youngest Leading Social Network Eats World’s Last Major RSS Reader: Google Reader Gets Plussed Best and most honest journalistic conflict disclosure ever.
Oct 20th
“Parents want to provide the best environment for their child, but delaying...”
– Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril - NYTimes.com
Oct 12th
“Some observers like the author Jim Collins think great companies are all about...”
– Steve Jobs, Superman « Uncrunched
Oct 11th
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“Ironically, the most fanatically apostle customers were the ones that had the...”
– Scott Weiss #truth
Oct 7th
Oct 4th
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