March 2009
2 posts
Announcing Freerisk →
Last week, Toby Segaran and I announced our new project Freerisk at the O’Reilly Etech conference, in a talk entitled “I Just Don’t Trust You: How the Tech Community Can Reinvent Risk Ratings…
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November 2008
1 post
October 2008
1 post
this is old. →
but oh so good.
September 2008
5 posts
Hadoop Reduce Value-Iterators are Flyweights →
Hadoop reduce iterators are pretty broken, so realize that before you waste tons of time like I did. The following won’t work (never mind the crap job I’m doing protecting my heap): List entries =...
“The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it...”
– Nicholas Taleb
via Steve J
(via bryc3)
Podcaster-gate →
I’m impressed by the anger directed at Apple for Podcaster-gate. Good community backlash is always healthy. If you haven’t heard about all this you can read more about it here to catch up, but in…
Perhaps Denmark shouldn't outsource it's cultural... →
But I’m available for the right price. Ostensibly a tribute to Olafur Eliasson. Contains expletive laden substance. Hat tip the quiet quiet
Bansky On Advertising (Monoscope) →
June 2008
7 posts
blogging at O'Reilly Radar for a bit →
I’ll be guest blogging on the O’Reilly Radar blog for a little while. You can see my first post here.
Indian Firms, Where Innovation Goes to Die →
The Navi Radjou at the Harvard Business Blog writes about the dearth of innovation going on in India. It’s a structure problem according to the analysis. The culprit works out to be family-run,…
when mbas go wrong →
On a related note, my technology strategy professor laughed at the idea that Apple might have a competive advantage in “style and taste”.
“I honor John McCain efforts and work, although he doesn’t honor mine”
– Barack Obama
Twitter / Ricardo:
(via fred-wilson)
May 2008
5 posts
April 2008
46 posts
“Say something new.”
– Paul Kedrosky: Unsolicited Conference Speaking/Panelist Advice
Two scary, scary videos →
HA! lindsaycampbell: First of all, what the hell is wrong with Laura Bush’s face? Seriously. I want to know. Second, so the DAUGHTER of the current president gets national airtime on a well-watched show, is asked about the election and says she’s been too busy to follow it? Passing these videos along is equivalent to tasting something, finding out it’s disgusting, then asking other people...
The Low Road to Victory - New York Times →
NYT is starting to roll back their endorsement.
apparently i could be more interesting →
Worth noting is that the bounce rate on “jesper andersen” is 75%. They’re searching for a different one. Great news for my friend Rob and his company Knowledge Bid, though.
The MFA is the New MBA →
“EITHER ACT OR FORGET”
– Sagmeister via Kottke (via reversecowgirl)
monstro: Fuck it. Time for Manhattans.
Showdown - Enter your Artwork at Saatchi... →
vote for the next art to be shown in the saatchi gallary hot or not style.
in which i get too snarky by half on the web →
Last night I got up nervous about my interview for yet another Kauffman Fellow position, this time up in Canada. To kill some time I cleaned out my rss reader and caught an interesting post by Fred…
Apple says Web designers can post "any font" for... →
Interesting lack of guidance on copyright. I’m more curious about download size as compared to creating images with your special font in them.
