“The future of media is to stop boring us with news that doesn’t relate to our lives. I’ll start reading my ‘local’ newspaper again when it covers my block.” – Chris Anderson Chris nails the idea I’ve talked about on this blog (1, 2, 3) and in numerous lunches: the blog-on-every-corner news. St. Anthony Village …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Color Me Stressed
I took the ColorQuiz 3 times this afternoon. Hear the results
Balance in the Air
A couple very recent quotes on balancing your life from two of my favorite bloggers: “5. People have only so much toleration for novelty in them; no one embraces novelty consistently and in all fields of life. Spend your tolerance for novelty wisely.” – Tyler Cowen 23.”Running a startup is full of extreme ups and …
RSS: Rude Screen Scrapers?
“I hate it when RSS scrapers steal my content” – Thord Daniel Hedengren Yes – crediting the source is polite. I make a point of linking back and crediting, and expect the same those of you that find what I write interesting. That said, spammers are inherently rude. They don’t change their ways when asked …
Something’s Burning
My 2 most recent pet peeves: Permalinks that are actually Feedburner redirects. Feed links that are actually Feedburner landing pages Anyone else or just me? LATER: Some elaboration as requested by Jake Parrillo from the Publisher Services Team: Jake, Thanks for the note. To start, I use NetNewsWire as my aggregator. By redirects, I mean …
iTouché-ing
I believe it’s been said many times before; while there are many other tech companies out there – Apple is the only one worth complaining about. If Apple was actually interested in short-term value and a simple, highly-constrained, highly-polished experience, the iPhone wouldn’t do 2/3 of this things it’s purported to (still being vaporware and …
Take 40% Off the Top
“Trees must be cut down, hauled to factories in trucks, and pulped into rolls of paper, which themselves must be transported to other factories, where they are chopped up, covered in ink, folded, stacked, and loaded onto a third set of trucks. These trucks then fan out across the region, dropping bundles at distribution points, …
Feeling Temporarily Secure
I’ve been to handful of airports – the underlying architecture of them all is: open, flowing, permanent. The ironic exception is the airport checkpoints – like pop-up stores in malls. Foldable tables, movable queue markers, equipment on wheels – makes it feel so temporary. Like it just might packed up and gone tomorrow. “The tables …
An Optimistic End to a Rough Day
It’s pushing midnight. I’m reading Tom Peters’ Re-Imagine and listening to ‘Above the Law’ by N.W.A. and Limp Bizkit’s cover of ‘Faith’. Here’s to tomorrow.
Demanding Markets in Absolutely Everything
“The next logical step, then, would be to make this all personally competitive. The rise of the multi-billion dollar fantasy sports industry — where people bet, or simply compete for bragging rights, by predicting and tracking statistics in everything from baseball and football, to supreme court decisions and Congressional voting — demonstrates how eager people …
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