Michael Broukhim

Introducing Mediagazer

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:56:10 -0800

added to the must-read list… still, techmeme / memeorandum are my top daily news visits; am sure this will be joining… now I just need ecmeme / finmeme / bizmeme.

"Viral videos and blog posts are becoming the samizdat of our day"

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:57:26 -0800

“Viral videos and blog posts are becoming the samizdat of our day”

- Hillary Clinton

U.S. Hopes Internet Exports Will Help Open Closed Societies - NYTimes.com

Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework - Love it....

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:31:06 -0800

Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework - Love it. Don’t let the short run confuse you. Minimize long term regret.

Spirit Awards Live

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:52:00 -0800

Always good to support indie films. This year’s show (by Dick Clark Productions) should be pretty cool. The widget will be the exclusive home of the arrivals show.

"The customer really isn’t always right."

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:46:00 -0800

“The customer really isn’t always right.”

- Great Lake, a Chicago Pizza Shop, Enjoys Being Small - Question - NYTimes.com

(via @jhstrauss)

Fascinating Q&A. Something very appealing about the owner’s confidence in what he wants to create and what he wants to get out of it.

On my first FoodCrawlNYC. Live updates by inventor RobD

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:44:00 -0800

On my first FoodCrawlNYC. Live updates by inventor RobD

NYC 2/22. BOS 3/1.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:09:13 -0800

Never knew LA could be so NYCish. #artwalk in downtown la

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:26:59 -0800

Never knew LA could be so NYCish. #artwalk in downtown la

More evidence that #GoogleBuzz is a winner. There’s a big...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:55:00 -0800

More evidence that #GoogleBuzz is a winner. There’s a big crowd of people who use Gmail but who are too lazy/busy/coolforschool to switch out to FB / Twitter to make friends & make updates. Credit to Google for making it simple to get started (auto-follow is a *win* despite the complaining) and giving Buzz a utilitarian feel (everything from the deep integration of location to the UI) to win over folks who don’t feel at home in the purely social networking environment.

Don’t get me wrong, Twitter & FB aren’t going anywhere, but Buzz will be the 3rd most popular way to get social on the Net sooner than later.

UPDATE: “Buzz is not about beating Facebook or Twitter it’s about commoditizing them.” - this post by TomsTechBlog.com provides the best commentary I’ve read on Google Buzz.

"This is a social network built into your inbox. Why would you go anywhere else?"

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:01:00 -0800

“This is a social network built into your inbox. Why would you go anywhere else?”

- Daniel Broukhim, my brother, on Google’s Buzz. Danny is my go to for a man on the street’s perspective of new tech products. Buzz is a winner.

Fun with punctuation

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:23:00 -0800

Fun with punctuation

Back cover of banksy art book.

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:59:33 -0800

Back cover of banksy art book.

"Ever since I started covering politics, the Democratic ruling class has been driven by one fantasy:..."

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:13:45 -0800

“Ever since I started covering politics, the Democratic ruling class has been driven by one fantasy: that voters will get so furious at people with M.B.A.’s that they will hand power to people with Ph.D.’s. The Republican ruling class has been driven by the fantasy that voters will get so furious at people with Ph.D.’s that they will hand power to people with M.B.A.’s. Members of the ruling class love populism because they think it will help their section of the elite gain power.”

- David Brooks - The Populist Addiction - NYTimes.com

It’s been a while since I’ve quoted the prescient David Brooks. I think he’s more the PhD type with a not-so-secret crush on MBA’s.

"The best way to counter the Tea Party movement, which is all about stopping things, is with an..."

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:07:46 -0800

“The best way to counter the Tea Party movement, which is all about stopping things, is with an Innovation Movement, which is all about starting things.”

- Op-Ed Columnist - More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs - NYTimes.com (via fred-wilson)

How to disrupt Wall Street by @cdixon - chris dixon's blog

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:32:28 -0800

How to disrupt Wall Street by @cdixon - chris dixon's blog:

There would be so much more disruption here if the financial bailout didn’t unfold the way it did… In any case, yes, for far too long financial innovation has meant creating additional layers of obfuscation (e.g. ever more complex securities and ways to lever up) to make it more difficult for normal folk to realize just how they’re getting taken; we need the good kind of financial innovation.

"In the past decade, media businesses, from music to newspapers, have suffered from the impact of..."

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:28:36 -0800

“In the past decade, media businesses, from music to newspapers, have suffered from the impact of unbundling. Civil wars in the cable business make it likely that it’ll be next”

- Why cable companies bundle their channels : The New Yorker

"Those are 56 words spent allowing Jesse M. Brill to restate the author’s point. Yet I, for one, have..."

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:00:59 -0800

“Those are 56 words spent allowing Jesse M. Brill to restate the author’s point. Yet I, for one, have never heard of Jesse M. Brill before. He may be a fine fellow. But I have no particular reason to trust him, and he has no particular reason to need my trust. The New York Times, on the other hand, does need my trust, or it is out of business. So it has a strong incentive to earn my trust every day (which it does, with rare and historic exceptions). But instead of asking me to trust it and its reporter about the thesis of this piece, The New York Times asks me to trust this person I have never heard of, Jesse M. Brill.”

- Cut This Story! - The Atlantic (January/February 2010)

Michael Kinsley decries traditional news media and restates his advocacy for embracing opinion journalism head on (as many bloggers do). This article was a nice restatement, but his real tour de force came in his 2006, “The Twilight of Objectivity: How opinion journalism could change the face of news.” Definitely worth a read.

"the important thing looking forward is to stop listening to financiers about financial reform"

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:44:59 -0800

“the important thing looking forward is to stop listening to financiers about financial reform”

- Op-Ed Columnist - Bankers Without a Clue - NYTimes.com

When the Solution Has No Price - Freakonomics Blog

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:30:25 -0800

When the Solution Has No Price - Freakonomics Blog

Helloform » @DaveMcClure on design, marketing and eating your own startup dogfood

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:31:54 -0800

Helloform » @DaveMcClure on design, marketing and eating your own startup dogfood