May 2013
“The United Space Alliance, which manages the computers aboard the International...”
– International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux, for improved reliability | ExtremeTech
“I think that sort of striving for simplicity is not a style. It’s an approach...”
– stratēchery | Jony Ive Is Not a Graphic Designer
“The disconnect is sharp; the frustration, the sense of ennui palpable from...”
– This Isn’t Obama’s Malaise, It’s GOP Intransigence - The Daily Beast
April 2013
“Couple a voluntary reporting scheme with too-big-to-fail status and a...”
– The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Politics News | Rolling Stone
“It wouldn’t be politics without politics, and the phrase “free from government...”
– The Brief: Monday, April 22nd
“Our laws do more than prevent the government from restraining prices for drugs...”
– Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com
“An acquisition, or an aqui-hire, is always a failure. Either the founders failed...”
– An acquisition is always a failure | PandoDaily
March 2013
“The video was the latest in a line of similarly-themed productions posted to the...”
– Video: North Korea ‘defeats’ US troops in new video - Telegraph
“Wealth affects not only how much money is given but to whom it is given. The...”
– Why the Rich Don’t Give to Charity - Ken Stern - The Atlantic
“The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that 10 of the 20 occupations that will...”
– Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com
“Taken as a whole, these powerful institutions and the bills they churn out...”
– Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com
January 2013
“There are roughly 5,600 commercial banking institutions in the country, Mr....”
– A Fed Voice, Asking to Cut Megabanks Down to Size - NYTimes.com
December 2012
“He went on to say the adopted treaty text was incompatible with the existing...”
– Behind closed doors at the UN’s attempted “takeover of the Internet” | Ars Technica
“If you wished to characterize the Democrats and the Republicans in terms of true...”
– n+1: Politico-psychopathology
“suspect that if you agree with Clay Shirky that teaching is analogous to music,...”
– Essay critiques the ideas of Clay Shirky and others advocating higher ed disruption | Inside Higher Ed
I do believe that teachers are analogues to hiring a live band.
November 2012
“If education were truly constructed around outcomes, it would start with...”
– Content vs. service in media & education — BuzzMachine
“Reporters in his traveling press corps often wondered why, even as the general...”
– A Mormon Reporter On The Romney Bus
One chart that tells the story of US debt from... →
“During the 1950s, the military, like much of the nation, became more...”
– General Failure - Thomas E. Ricks - The Atlantic
“The news media, meanwhile, almost never take candidates to task for incorrect...”
– The world is safer. But no one in Washington can talk about it. - The Washington Post
October 2012
“Beginning sometime around 1970 the U.S. and most of the ‘free world’ have...”
– Guest Post: The Dark Age Of Money | ZeroHedge
“Argument, of course, is the human condition, but public argument is not. Indeed,...”
– Shirky: ‘We are indeed less willing to agree on what constitutes truth’ | Poynter.
“How frequently people in a state searched for “Obama jokes” almost perfectly...”
– Google’s Crystal Ball - NYTimes.com
Social Media and Political Engagement | Pew... →
“those who use social media, especially Facebook, are more civically and...”
– Social Media and Political Engagement | Pew Internet & American Life Project
September 2012
August 2012
“Imagine if a politician were to say, “France has a better health care system...”
– To Make America Great Again, We Need to Leave the Country
“Last March an upstart exchange called BATS, based in Kansas City, organized an...”
– Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading | Wired Business | Wired.com
“The firm, in this view, operates outside the market; as an island within the...”
– Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valveâs management structure fit into todayâs corporate world? | Valve
July 2012
“Software companies would do well to learn this lesson: anything with the phrase...”
– blog
“In the months afterwards, no less than 125 local outlets picked up the story,...”
– Lessons from ProPublica | Monday Note
June 2012
“Congressional staffers asked company officials at the time about rumors that...”
– World War 3.0
“The War for the Internet was inevitable—a time bomb built into its creation. The...”
– World War 3.0
“Freemium requires a business to maintain two value propositions with a...”
– The Anatomy of Profitable Freemium
Will the wires survive?
Andrew: You think the wires will survive? 2:11 PM
Me: As in the current companies, or the idea of centralized information gathering as b2b? 2:29 PM
Andrew: Well, both, I suppose 2:32 PM
Me: Bloomberg has a shot – their customers are finance not journo. Reuters is doing interesting things with staffing, becoming a destination, and "new media" AP is doomed. So are most others. 2:36 PM
Me: centralized information gathering as a B2B model will likely continue, but not in it's current form. 1) twitter, et al, eats their lunch. Wires need to get very, very specialized and easier to filter. See: bloomberg 2:39 PM
Me: 2) information has become more commoditized. Getting it right, and fast is meaningless when man-with-smartphone beats them 50% of the time. The quantity of wires needs to go down, or specialization needs to increase. See: bloomberg terminals 2:40 PM
Me: 3) staffing needs to get sorted. Full time salaries for world-wide locations are a needless expense. Much better to have a network of specialized freelancers who work for several interests. 2:41 PM
Me: 4) the current institutions are largely professionals that strive for professionalism. This really means that they are old-boys clubs that spend a lot of money on gear. The Arab spring has, in part, shown us that cheap and good-enough are nearly as effective. 2:43 PM
Me: 5) the major problem wires were created to solve were speed of information flow, and gathering of disparate information. Speed (with some exception [Bloomberg terminals] is a solved problem), quantity of information is a solved problem. What's needed are good filters – that's new for wires (see: what AP doesn't do). 2:45 PM
Me: IHMO. Why?
“Other Justices show no such deference — in fact, they appear to think any...”
– Behind Stephen Colbert’s fascination with Super PACs, c4s and ‘independent’ expenditures
May 2012
“In my opinion it should, if you want to ride the four transformational trends...”
– Journalism education reform: How far should it go? - Knight Foundation
“How to survive
Once you start looking at news media through the lens of...”
– Fungible
“When people trust their institutions, they’re better able to solve common...”
– In Nothing We Trust - Ron Fournier and Sophie Quinton - NationalJournal.com
“ Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
Do not think it worth while to...”
– Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Teachers — Marginal Revolution
