July 2010
“The worst part of a decade of MTV Cribs is the realization that the rich are...”
– Spencer Hall: ESPN Has Broad Understanding Of ‘Editorial Process’ - SBNation.com
I did an honest-to-god spit take.
“What’s emerging is a new rhetoric of development and globalization in what I am...”
– Tricia Wang on Neo-informationalism
After reading Ben’s writeup of Tricia’s talk on Neo-informationalism, I had to revisit her passage on the anthropomorphization of information. It’s a brilliant challenge to the religion of ‘Open’ that many of us subscribe to. If...
“Many of us have sat through countless meetings, listening to pundits make wild...”
– Ben Hammersley on Tricia Wang’s Neo-Informationalism
WatchGraffiti Analysis v3.0 - Trailer (by Evan Roth)
Usher-Papers (lyrics) vs. Man Goat by VJ Ann... →
Please click through. This had me in tears.
On Basketball - Traded by Knicks, David Lee Was... →
The funeral for Scott Jaffer, a longtime N.B.A. security official whose primary post was Madison Square Garden, was held July 11. [David] Lee had been in St. Louis, his hometown, after being dealt by the Knicks to the Golden State Warriors in a sign-and-trade transaction that was announced soon after LeBron James’s all-about-me ESPN extravaganza.
Lee was stunned to hear that Jaffer, 63, had...
5 Questions With…Know Your Meme‘s Kenyatta Cheese →
Q: What’s the one big issue/law/attitude/restriction that you think is holding back the industry?
A: Is there really something holding us back? Is there some imaginary finish line somewhere in Hollywood that we’re all looking to cross? Web video has this inferiority complex, as if we have to explain away why we’re not television. Meanwhile, we forget that television had the same exact anxiety,...
“Sometimes the pointless-seeming jokes that spring from the Web seem to be...”
– Taking Web Humor Seriously, Sort Of - NYTimes.com
NYT mag article about ROFLCon II featuring guest appearances by KYM, Tim Hwang, Christina Xu, Ben Huh, Chris Poole, Biella Coleman, Clay Shirky, MemeFactory, Jason Scott, and more.
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“You need killer instinct to play here. It’s why Reggie Jackson became Mr....”
– No guts, no glory for Chicken King - NYPOST.com
“[Google] believes that they draw upon the qualities that stand opposite from...”
– GOOGLIST REALISM: The Google-China saga and the free-information regimes as a new site of cultural imperialism and moral tensions
Google, The Accidential Imperialist
James Gandolfini reprised his role as Tony Soprano... →
The Knicks opened their video presentation Thursday with a scene from a LeBron favorite. Suddenly Tony hadn’t been killed off by David Chase after all. He was wearing a beard and living with his wife under the cover of the witness protection program, and Tony was telling Carmela he had an important friend coming to town. A friend who needed a place to stay. A friend named LeBron James.
Deconstructing Startup Growth →
The most important element is having a large percentage of users who consider your product a “must have” (over 40% is a good benchmark). This gives you two key benefits:
The first is that your churn will be relatively low (if it’s a “must have” why would users leave?), so you won’t be wasting resources filling a leaky bucket.
The second is that “must have” products generally maintain strong...
“In practice, programs gain overlapping features over time. A set of programs may...”
– Where the Unix philosophy breaks down — The Endeavour
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