June 2009
33 posts
Keeping News of David Rohde’s Kidnapping Off... →
Customer driven iteration vs Whiteboard driven... →
“I’m always a little reticent to draw lessons from things still unfolding,...”
– TED Blog: Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran
I can’t help but feel like I should be paying more attention to what’s going on in Iran, or even doing something more myself. I’m an American of Iranian descent who’s grown up thinking I may never see where my parents had grown up. Now, I spend my life building a social media company and advising others in its practice, while these very tools tear at the seams of an...
“The Iranian elections have stirred a whirlwind that will lead, someday, to the...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Fragile at the Core - NYTimes.com
“Politicians like the darkness”
– Adam Katz on design for political websites.
Michael J. Totten: Iran on Fire (Continuously... →
Unbelievable how this is unfolding and the role social media is playing
Watch@msuster on “How to Perfect Your Pitch” (to VC’s) on the Fox Business Channel
Facebook Vanity URLS are not what you think «... →
This article hits on one of the remaining key differentiators between FB & Twitter (addressable identity)… interesting point.
“Technology has reached a point where anyone can get involved with innovation....”
– Open Platforms and Innovation
“Flight 447 was an Airbus, which uses so-called “fly-by-wire”...”
– Computers Key To Air France Crash - Digital Life Blog - InformationWeek
UPDATE: NB, I agree with everything Trey says here:
Trey: i dont like your airline quote
it seems to make the issue bigger than it is me: ya… i think i agree with you… but i thought it was an interesting...
50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design |... →
“We talked for 20-30 minutes by phone. About 30 seconds of dialog, remixed to...”
– The Morality And Effectiveness Of Process Journalism
This is Michael Arrington (Techcrunch) on the same NYT article that Jeff Jarvis wrote about, and I linked to a couple posts ago. I wonder why no blogs / journalism outlets have started posting, in full (with off-the-record parts taken out), the...
“We who publish must learn how to say what we don’t know at least as well as we...”
– Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture « BuzzMachine
Excellent piece by Jeff Jarvis
“You can still sometimes see in rural China the remains of a monument to a...”
– Rising Above I.Q. - NYTimes.com
“We’ve seen this before, albeit in different context: An overconfident government...”
– The Quagmire Ahead - David Brooks (NYTimes) writing about GM
Google Local Lures Small Businesses With Their Own... →
Google is incredibly shrewd. I’m impressed with this as well as their approach to People Search / Profiles and convinced that both will payoff significant longterm dividends — for the company, and frankly, for end users as well.
Put Ad on Web. Count Clicks. Revise. →
Congrats to Darren Herman on this great feature
