January 2010
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“Great products are triumphs of taste. And taste is a byproduct of study,...”
– Steve Jobs (via ecbp)
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Dunbar's number →
…a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person. Proponents assert that numbers larger than this generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No...
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“Basically, his address boiled down to, ‘Fuck me? Oh, no no no, my friend. Fuck...”
– Jon Stewart on President Obama’s State of the Union Address (via bringmethathorizon) (via think4yourself) (via virtualephemera) (via apsies) (via mikehudack)
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The wrong business model? →
Delivering immediate effect might not be the best business model for designing long-term valuable marketing initiatives. … There is a need for long term marketing initiatives; digital concepts and ideas need to carry the longevity of product relationships. Which also implies a different way of measuring value. (What are the metrics identifying the value of a relationship? Are they the same...
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“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you...”
– Conan O’Brien (via editorlisa and dpstyles) (via david)
such a great show closing too.
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“Before the Internet, most professional occupations required a large body of...”
– MIT researcher David Dalrymple’s answer to the question, “How is the Internet changing the way you think?” (via chrbutler) (via slantback)
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An Ongoing Lack of Imagination in Pricing (of... →
debbiestier:
maggiehilliard:
Interesting post about lack of creativity in digital pricing from Albert Wenger.
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Yet despite such clear examples, Amazon, Apple, the New York Times, book publishers, etc all seem stuck on essentially the one price model. Can we please have some more imagination in pricing? It is time to start creating offers that let readers self select...
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enter the magical mystery chambers. →
um, guys? wu-tang vs. the beatles.
hat tip @blam & @ryan.
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“You never master it, I don’t care how many lifetimes, and that’s the...”
– Chris Bianco
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applesauce cake.
ratcliffe-lee:
tomorrow, alex heads back down to philly after break from dancing & classes. all six of us had dinner for the last time probably until katie’s birthday in a few weeks.
mom told her story again about great grandma ackerman’s sister, who worked at grand central station as a reservations agent, memorized the timetables for the entire united states rail system.
i also whipped...
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The Reviewing Stand →
The oddness of some of the voices in the reviews only makes them more useful. When you consult reviews on a site like Amazon, you generally see what you want to see, and autobiographical information can give a handy pretext for disqualifying an argument you’re disinclined to hear. (“That reviewer’s way too young to know a good pre-Raphaelite frameable art card!”) When you turn to the Internet for...
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“Ideas cannot become shared ideas without some awareness of those ideas. You and...”
– Accuracy and Truth (via azspot)
as the atlantic says, “think. again.”
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Watchlast moments of 2009.
the language is a bit fresh but nothing can hold back swarley mean time.
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