November 2008
45 posts
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– E.B. White, Here is New York (via whitneymcn)
From my favorite essay about New York by one of my favorite authors. And now, perhaps, it’s easier to come to New York than anytime in the past 10 years. No more insane security deposits and arrogant landlords. So while there will be a lot of pain...
“The pirates will finance part of the purchase by selling new Pirate Ransom...”
– Somali Pirates in Discussions to Acquire Citigroup
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via willmccloud mikehudack)
“People refer to powerpoint as a “deck.” There’s no rule that says you have to...”
– Fred Graver (via entrepreneurwisdom)
“The brevity of the reviews allows for a much greater variety of opinions to be...”
– Artists House Music: Musebin: Twitter-style Music Reviews
“These are the locust years for the journalistic profession… But amid all...”
– Adrian Wooldridge
Intern to launch a 1-line Music Review Site →
This is a great oppertunity to intern with Sawhorse Media to work on Musebin. We even occasionally get our interns coffee, not the other way around.
“If you would prefer to hold without music please press the # key now.”
– GoDaddy’s support line
“Like many other major corporations, all three have policies requiring their CEOs...”
– Big Three auto CEOs flew private jets to ask for taxpayer money - CNN.com
Umm, who sets the policies at these companies?
“My songs prove I’ll be a great dad.”
– John Mayer
“I’m in, very sweet. Haiku snobbery is the illest.”
– A journalist’s reaction to Musebin
My first reaction to discovering that Twitter is down is to Twitter about it.
“I hate how the Vista advertisements rave about how parents can limit their kids’...”
– Allison Weiss (via Mareen) (via marco)
Imagine if Mr. and Mrs. Gates limited Bill’s time on that computer. He could have gotten a college degree!
“Adding comments has been disabled for this video.”
– YouTube - Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect
Why’d Obama turn off comments on YouTube?
“As the Valley goes into the fetal position, Microsoft’s relative position...”
– Henry Blodget
I’m not sure if I agree with Henry’s prescription for making Microsoft more relevant to the internet, but I do doubt that Ballmer’s running around Redmond with an “RIP Good Times” PowerPoint to rally the troops.
“Academia is a world that is designed to be explored and it’s very easy to...”
– Malcolm Gladwell
“I fill my life with people from diverse backgrounds. I have friends in academia,...”
– Malcolm Gladwell
“It’s only fitting that I should try to apply the Musebin lesson to this...”
– Eliot Van Buskirk in Wired.com
“Musebin wants music reviewers to cut to the chase, big-time. Nevermind that girl...”
– Eliot Van Buskirk in Wired.com
“I’ve been saying for months the the answer to this liquidity shortage is...”
– Going Private
10 Benefits of a Recession - Michael Hyatt →
It causes you to get more creative.
It forces you to make the tough decisions.
It thins out the competition.
It makes you realize you can’t take anything for granted.
It reminds you that real wealth isn’t about the stuff you own.
It fosters out-of-the-box thinking.
It makes it easier to abandon business-as-usual.
It brings you back to the basics.
It accelerates change.
It causes...
“It’s laissez-faire until you get in deep shit”
– John Gutfreund, former CEO of Salomon Brothers
“The bottleneck [in green tech] is not enough entrepreneurs digging into this.”
– Jeff Stewart
“When you order from Vermont Brownie Company (or Amazon.com, for that matter),...”
– Tom Evslin: Maybe We Don’t Need So Much Credit (via rafer)
“Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered police on Friday to stamp out any...”
– Russia president tells police to crush crisis unrest - Reuters News (via mikehudack)
I hear this is the next phase of Hank Paulson’s bailout plan too.
adamvarga:
Yay. Check out @musebin’s latest tweet. The avatar = the album art. And we’re now using an even tinier URL.
“Anyone else get blitzed last night? Oh man. The Founding Fathers had some...”
– Barack Obama
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve...”
– H.L. Mencken
“Choose the lesser of two evils on election day.”
– Advice from the AM New York dude at West 4th Street
“Few Americans find anything amiss in the notion that it is the president’s...”
– Gene Healy
“There are few better examples of democracy’s mediocrity than this...”
– Peter Suderman
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...”
– Oscar Wilde
