Music, Technology, Art, Economy

Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Tina Seelig, Stanford...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:47:57 -0800

Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Tina Seelig, Stanford Technology Ventures Program - Classroom Experiments in Entrepreneurship

Take 6 min and watch this, cool examples of creative problem solving

"Don’t waste your money on any of the others - especially if you have a large dog with large..."

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:57:43 -0700

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Don’t waste your money on any of the others - especially if you have a large dog with large “deposits” for you to pick up.

This bag is heavy and solid - no worries about tearing, etc.

I love them!!!

”

- Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Firstrax Poop Patrol 6 Refill Rolls

I don’t know about you, but I love reading Amazon customer reviews, YouTube comments, and - especially - the “Talk” page on Wikipedia articles about weird subject matter.

There’s a million art projects in here waiting to bloom.

"It was a lot more than just the TARP money. In fact, those bonuses that Goldman executives are..."

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:44:13 -0700

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It was a lot more than just the TARP money.

In fact, those bonuses that Goldman executives are about to pull down owe a fair amount to us taxpayers.

Goldman’s failure to even concede that point is a large part of the reason the firm is under such scrutiny now.

”

- Talking Business - Short Memories at Goldman - NYTimes.com

"The local increase in homeless kids happened at the same time that incoming federal funds earmarked..."

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:46:56 -0700

“The local increase in homeless kids happened at the same time that incoming federal funds earmarked for homeless students have been cut by half”

- Michigan Can’t Afford School Bus Safety Inspections, May Stop Service

THIS is why TARP, et al, are so fucking ridiculous.

A few useful snippets of some modern Business Models

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:15:52 -0700

A few useful snippets of some modern Business Models

"When asked for the most valuable topic in Demand’s arsenal, he replies instantly: “‘Where can I..."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:30:29 -0700

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When asked for the most valuable topic in Demand’s arsenal, he replies instantly: “‘Where can I donate a car in Dallas?’

One, you have a certain number of people searching for it.

Two, the bid term ‘donate a car’ is in the double-digit dollars, like $15 or $20 per click. People have a propensity — 17 percent — to click on an ad when they see the word car. There’s very little competition. And the article will retain its value for a long time.”

So why Dallas?

He has no idea: “Dallas just happens to be the location where we know people are searching for how to donate a car.”

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- The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell | Magazine

"The process is automatic, random, and endless, a Stirling engine fueled by the world’s unceasing..."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:08:34 -0700

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The process is automatic, random, and endless, a Stirling engine fueled by the world’s unceasing desire to know how to grow avocado trees from pits or how to throw an Atlanta Braves-themed birthday party.

It is a database of human needs, and if you haven’t stumbled on a Demand video or article yet, you soon will…

Demand is already one of the largest suppliers of content to YouTube, where its 170,000 videos make up more than twice the content of CBS, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera English, Universal Music Group, CollegeHumor, and Soulja Boy combined

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- The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell | Wired Magazine

Why Freakonomics Can't Beat Geekonomics

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:51:21 -0700

Why Freakonomics Can't Beat Geekonomics

"For years, George Bush hunted for phantom WMDs, while terrorist networks flourished under his..."

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:21:10 -0700

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For years, George Bush hunted for phantom WMDs, while terrorist networks flourished under his nose.

Now Barack Obama is hunting for a phantom prosperity, while the greatest robbery in the world is happening right under his nose.

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- Reinventing Wall Street From the Bottom Up - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org

The New (New) Mediaconomy

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:09:35 -0700

The New (New) Mediaconomy

Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:26:34 -0700

Applause For Finland: First Country To Make Broadband Access A Legal Right

"just think what a small fraction of everything you know you have published on the web. Yet everyone..."

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:27:23 -0700

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just think what a small fraction of everything you know you have published on the web.

Yet everyone (not just those who blog a lot) have knowledge and experience that is valuable to share.

By using the web as an index of people, Social Search lets you tap into absolutely anything that anyone knows… in the theoretical limit

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- The Real-Time People Web

Elinor Ostrom and the Future of Economics

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:11:41 -0700

Elinor Ostrom and the Future of Economics

In defense of charging

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:05:49 -0700

In defense of charging

via img.4chan.org

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:07:35 -0700

via img.4chan.org

Reviewing Some Bad Google Search Results With Sergey Brin

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:03:10 -0700

Reviewing Some Bad Google Search Results With Sergey Brin

"Can you imagine if the fed regulated cpc in the early days with disclose statements – then it’s..."

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:55:44 -0700

“Can you imagine if the fed regulated cpc in the early days with disclose statements – then it’s possible that Google’s ad prosperity never would have existed.”

- My Response to Matt Cutts on FTC Issue … « /SAbackchan

Leadership…I Gotzt it!

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:04:54 -0700

Leadership…I Gotzt it!

My friend Kyle Reinford tipped me off with a facebook Wall post...

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:56:06 -0700

My friend Kyle Reinford tipped me off with a facebook Wall post and I magically was one of the lucky few to get two tickets to see Thom Yorke play a warm-up show at the Echoplex last night.

As I somewhat sarcastically noted on Twitter, getting the tix was anticlimactic…one of those things that I tried on a whim and the online ticketing gods smile upon me…thousands of people were freaking out in the mean time.

The show itself was great, the band sounded awesome. The video above pretty much tells the story. My wife and I just hung back where she could see and jammed out and danced. For all the hand wringing and excitement over the show, I was pretty surprised at how unenthusiastic and shoe-gazing the crowd was. The band was KILLING it and these pretentious “omg I hate it when people talk at the show” losers weren’t giving any energy back to the band.

To that point, during one of the encores I walked up to the front…everyone was standing like 12” away from everyone else, it was easy to move around. Frankly it seems a bit weird and suspicious to me when people are being that mellow at a show like that.

Because I’m old and lame, I have to admit that one of my fav parts of the night was going for dinner and drinks at our favorite mexican place in LA, El Conquistador, and then cabbing over to the venue right when the band started. All the losery shoegazers wasted their night standing in line for no reason. Ahhhhh, the vindication.

Definitely one of the coolest shows I’ve been to in a long time. When my bro was in town in August, we caught Fiona Apple with Jon Brion at Largo and that was pretty amazing, too. Gotta love Los Angeles.

meganwest: Carl Sagan - ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:13:38 -0700

meganwest:

Carl Sagan - ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)

The fact that I hadn’t seen this before now means you’re all fired.