Dalton Caldwell’s thoughts on Twitter’s crucial decision to become an ad/media company are spot on.
I still have a lot of love in the geeky corners of my heart for Twitter and hope that they’re trying to do the right thing. Talk of “delivering a consistent user experience”, innocent though it may be, makes me nervous.
We have to give this the opportunity to flourish first
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Denise Warren, general manager of nytimes.com, on the lack of paywall on the Times’s new Chinese-language site.
It might be easier for me to learn Chinese than to figure out how to subscribe to the Times.
The EFF has put together an incredibly clear and reasonable set of guidelines for software patent reform. Let your congressfolk know you support this.
The Ron Paul Family Cookbook is about as horrible as you’d imagine
Equal parts Betty Crocker and Ayn Rand, recipes include Easy Oreo Truffles (made of cream cheese and crushed Oreos, natch), Golfer’s Chicken (don’t forget the powdered onion soup mix, salad dressing and apricot jam) and Zippy Olive Beef Spread (leftover wine, cream cheese, mayonnaise, cocktail olives, shredded beef and a little bit of puking in your own mouth). Mrs. Paul prepares these family favorites in an apron embroidered with “End the Fed”.
Like so much of the Paul’s very special brand of libertarianism, it’s really just an excuse to ignore common sense and prop up corporations at the expense of your own well-being.
This is pretty close what I wore to work yesterday.
Dutch artist Bart Jansen has turned his recently deceased cat into a working quad-copter.
It’s the GZA. Hanging out with Neil deGrasse Tyson, who consulted on GZA’s new album “Dark Matter”.
Of the infinite possibilities of infinite universes, I’m glad this happened in this one.
A colored background, a few stick drawings and bizarre font choices don’t make something an infographic. You’re hunting the word into extinction. Please, stop.
NBCU Exploring Buyback of MSNBC.com
I wish all my former colleagues the best as this shakes out. Weaning off a one portal’s firehose (to another?) is ambitious and they have a good team who I expect will be eager to have direction.
Just what Tiff said. Lots of smart folks there.
Tenacity and commitment are key attributes of a great entrepreneur. Eric has these in spades as demonstrated by his willingness to do whatever it takes to get his company off the ground.
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Clint Korver of Ulu Ventures, in reference to a 19-year-old kid who secretly camped out at AOL’s Palo Alto campus for 2-months while working on his startup.
This is why Silicon Valley is so fucked up.