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2009-07-14T14:23:30-04:00

how $0.00 is the past of business : rick webb's blog : : the barbarian group: Now that the book is out, I feel I need to re-pimp my post from a while back about Chris Anderson’s “Free”. I’ve seen a lot of commentary on it lately but I still think I’ve got an original thought. Or something. Maybe.

Tumblr: melodymcc: All of my favorite bands decided to get together and...

2009-07-14T14:23:30-04:00

melodymcc:

All of my favorite bands decided to get together and throw a party.

This might be the first festival where I’ve literally already seen EVERY SINGLE BAND on the bill. Oh wait, I have never seen Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. MAN I AM THERE!

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2009-07-14T11:46:40-04:00

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Tumblr: Blur defy illness to play 'last gig' at T In The Park - T In The Park Festival News - Festivals Guide 2009 - NME.COM - News, Reviews, Line-Ups, Photos, Videos, Information and More

2009-07-14T09:11:43-04:00

Blur defy illness to play 'last gig' at T In The Park - T In The Park Festival News - Festivals Guide 2009 - NME.COM - News, Reviews, Line-Ups, Photos, Videos, Information and More:

“We nearly didn’t make it,” he said when the song ended. “Graham literally walked out of a hospital to come here. He’s alright. This is our last gig.”

I am now feeling a deep regret for not going to any of the Blur reunion shows.

Also it’s weird they didn’t say what Graham was in the hospital for.

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2009-07-14T06:32:45-04:00

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Barbarian Group Rick: Real-Time Conversations Hasten Social CRM

2009-07-14T06:32:45-04:00

Real-Time Conversations Hasten Social CRM :bq. During one flight, a woman who just graduated medical school to become a doctor, had tweeted her excitement about graduating and also flying @virginamerica. Instead of simply responding with a congratulatory Tweet, Porter and her team retweeted and asked someone on the flight to buy her a drink (the benefits of offering inflight wifi). To her surprise, Porter triggered an immediate response, “Row 11 is going to buy her a drink.” And, to her further astonishment, the person who sent that Tweet was live in the audience at the Real-Time stream event. Alexia Tsotsis, tech writer at the LA Weekly, shouted from the first row, “That was me!” Everyone in the audience was a witness to a vivid demonstration of how interaction online extends into real world experiences.

That is kind of hilarious. Off-topic – doesn’t it seem like there’s another conference every week on this stuff? How do people even hear about them? I feel so out of the loop – I only learn about the latest social media conference when someone writes an article about it after the fact.

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2009-07-14T06:32:45-04:00

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2009-07-14T06:32:45-04:00

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Barbarian Group Rick: Google Brain Drain: Twitter Poaches Prominent Lawyer (GOOG)

2009-07-14T06:32:45-04:00

Google Brain Drain: Twitter Poaches Prominent Lawyer :p. So this is weird. Why does Twitter need an in-house counsel? Is this something valley startups “just do?” I mean, we have like 70 people, about the same as Twitter, and a fairly constant need for legal services, but I am nowhere near thinking about getting an in-house legal counsel. I like using a law firm, and you get experts in every subject as you need them.

I suppose part of it is that in the “advertising” world, the CFO does a lot of the contract negotiations with clients, so there’s not a constant stream of legal needs from your moneymakers. but still, how many deals does Twitter make in a month?

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2009-07-13T22:46:26-04:00

@ Ray's Pizza

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2009-07-13T22:46:25-04:00

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2009-07-13T20:11:05-04:00

@ St Regis

Tumblr: Google Brain Drain: Twitter Poaches Prominent Lawyer (GOOG)

2009-07-13T20:11:04-04:00

Google Brain Drain: Twitter Poaches Prominent Lawyer (GOOG):

So this is weird. Why does Twitter need an in-house counsel? Is this something valley startups “just do?” I mean, we have like 70 people, about the same as Twitter, and a fairly constant need for legal services, but I am nowhere near thinking about getting an in-house legal counsel. I like using a law firm, and you get experts in every subject as you need them.

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2009-07-13T17:33:45-04:00

P1000279 (via liz enthusiasm)

Tumblr: Real-Time Conversations Hasten Social CRM

2009-07-13T17:33:45-04:00

Real-Time Conversations Hasten Social CRM :

During one flight, a woman who just graduated medical school to become a doctor, had tweeted her excitement about graduating and also flying @virginamerica. Instead of simply responding with a congratulatory Tweet, Porter and her team retweeted and asked someone on the flight to buy her a drink (the benefits of offering inflight wifi). To her surprise, Porter triggered an immediate response, “Row 11 is going to buy her a drink.” And, to her further astonishment, the person who sent that Tweet was live in the audience at the Real-Time stream event. Alexia Tsotsis, tech writer at the LA Weekly, shouted from the first row, “That was me!” Everyone in the audience was a witness to a vivid demonstration of how interaction online extends into real world experiences.

That is kind of hilarious. Off-topic - doesn’t it seem like there’s another conference every week on this stuff? How do people even hear about them? I feel so out of the loop - I only learn about the latest social media conference when someone writes an article about it after the fact.

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2009-07-13T14:56:14-04:00

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Tumblr: Discoveries of Human Feet on British Columbia Beaches, 2007–2008

2009-07-13T12:15:18-04:00

Discoveries of Human Feet on British Columbia Beaches, 2007–2008:

bestofwikipedia:

Since August 2007, six legless human feet have been discovered in coastal British Columbia, Canada, and a seventh in nearby Washington, United States. The feet belong to four men and one woman, the two left feet having been matched with two of the five right feet.

Well that’s about the weirdest thing I’ll read all day.

Tumblr: Editorial - The City Life - What the Sisters Are Up To - NYTimes.com

2009-07-13T12:15:18-04:00

Editorial - The City Life - What the Sisters Are Up To - NYTimes.com: le chauvinism. “Next time, let’s have our women religious study the quality of life of our male clerics,” is Mr. Fox’s advice.

Man. Leave those do-gooder nuns alone!

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2009-07-13T09:36:07-04:00

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Barbarian Group Rick: "A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January..."

2009-07-13T04:23:12-04:00

“p. A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning.
He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. Every single time a child walked past, he or she tried to stop and watch. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace.
He collected $32.
When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it.
No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.

Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?

”

- _p. The Washington Post

This has to be one of my favorite articles of all time. I read it when it was published and think about it almost every week. It’s sheer genius.

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(via newelizabethan )p. I think I’ve reblogged this twice now. Even as I think about it I still miss daily beauty.

Man. That was a stunning article. So much stuff in one article. Offhand comments about Kant being right. An analysis of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven.” A history of theft of an ancient violin. The fact that this dude paid $3.5 million dollars for the tool of his trade (I would DIE). But more than all of that, a moving analysis of beauty, perception, mood and the human condition. Wow. I’m gonna go stare at the sky for a few hours.