December 2009
22 posts
Police Are Said to Have Killed 10 in Iran Protests →
unfortunately buried in the news
“The guiding myth underpinning the reconstruction of our dangerous banking system...”
– “Wake Up, Gentlemen” « The Baseline Scenario
Hey Internet (Google, Twitter, Facebook)…There is... →
Nice piece by @howardlindzon
“For the 20-year period ending in 2007, the Los Angeles Lakers’ N.B.A....”
– Are the Lakers a Sure Thing? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Getting Computer Science Into Middle School →
“We want to do something that’s organic and in the flow of the way people...”
– Dick Costolo, Twitter COO
Content-Search Deals Make Twitter Profitable - BusinessWeek
‘Social’ will be monetized. I think Twitter’s going to nail it… and… Facebook will copy it; and that will be the right move.
“I take away the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world and...”
– Our President on the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr (a subject that’s popping up all over the place) via David Brooks in Obama’s Christian Realism - NYTimes.com
“The Internet is a massive content creation machine. We are witnessing an...”
– Why Social Beats Search (by Fred Wilson, kingmaker vc of the social web)
“Remember when that idiot shoe bomber Richard Reid tried to blow up his shoes on...”
– Bill Simmons: Tiger Woods mailbag - ESPN
“Right here in your own backyard, an American company creates a brilliant phone,...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
A tour de force by Fake Steve. Seriously great material.
“There’s no business value in financial safety when the government bails...”
– Lest we forget that deep, structural problems in the U.S. financial regulation regime still go untended to…
James Grant Mourns the Loss of the Gold Standard - WSJ.com
“They are asking us to forget about the election results as though people are...”
– Mir Hussein Moussavi
Iranian Student Protesters Clash With Police - NYTimes.com
“A few bad strangers ruined it for us all”
– George Castanza, Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Finale