January 2009
43 posts
It happened so suddenly, but social media has profoundly changed the world. Between the Obama campaign and Israel’s use of Twitter and Youtbe this week, 2008 has birthed a fundamentally new, and better, media landscape.
Update: The Israeli Consulate just responded to TotSpot’s offer to host videos that were taken down by YouTube (and evidentally, since restored)… this is really...
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“You did not cause the anti-Semitic insults about Jews and money, but you caused...”
– - Rabbi Marc Gellman’s Open Letter to Bernie Madoff (via adamkatz)
Re-blogging because:
1) It’s really painful to acknowledge just how bad Madoff has been for Jews. Though to be fair to the media, where Rabbi Gellman isn’t as charitable, I do think that Jews, ourselves, have played a...
December 2008
18 posts
Follow Obama's Inauguration on Twitter →
(via steller)
The Best ‘Best of 2008’ Lists of 2008 List →
(via steller)
A meta list!
Master of 500 Hats: Silicon Valley 2.0: The... →
We are living by this presentation these days… one of the best overviews of metric-driven product development I’ve ever come across.
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Disproportionate Responses
Ezra Klein joins the media chorus criticizing Israel’s “disproportionate response” to the Hamas missile attacks, but doesn’t really care to unpack what the argument actually means.
The notion that Israel ought to be faulted for responding “disproportionately,” presumes that there ought to have been some other, “proportionate” response. What exactly...
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The Rise of the Open Letter
Fred Wilson made an insightful post today about how correspondence is making a comeback. His points about how writing itself is being rediscovered by a mass audience are well made, but I think there’s also something even more fundamental changing about the changing nature of communication - whether it be expressed via the written word, images, videos, or anything else.
In particular, beyond...
“Again, why spend four years of your life in cold weather when you don’t...”
– ESPN Page 2 - Sublime meets ridiculous in holiday mailbag
A good mailbag by the Sports Guy. Here he channels… me.
“Early this morning, we posted a letter that carried the name of Bertrand...”
– Editors’ Note - Editor’s Note - NYTimes.com
Wow…that’s a fairly major blunder for the NYT
Credit Suisse Paying Top Execs With Illiquid... →
This is a brilliant idea. Hat-tip to Adam Daneshgar, founder of the world’s greatest Song of the Day list, for the link. If you want to get on the Song of the Day list, send me an email: michael AT mylastname DOT com.
Jenny McCarthy and Joely Fisher Host TotSpot... →
We’ve been pretty busy at TotSpot HQ. So busy, that we haven’t properly shared photos and news about our launch party last month! There are some more great pictures on our Facebook Fan Page…
“to me always having a dessert seems as odd as having to choose between “just...”
– Why the hype? - [Look Around You] The first in a series
If you’re not reading ‘Why the Hype,’ you’re just not reading at al all. Keep it up Fuzy!
“In the long run we are all dead”
– Economic View - What Would Keynes Have Done? - NYTimes.com
A great piece by Mankiw; here quoting Keynes.
