“What if there was an agreed upon microformat…that would telegraph to others our capabilities, experience, strengths, knowledge and, especially, our availability to be hired?” – Steve Borsch Must be something in the warm Janurary in MN air. A lunch earlier this week – unfortunately without Steve (need to remedy that) – was all about the …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
A New Year of Indirect
“Just another reminder that the reason to be a Long Tail producer is not direct revenues. Instead, it’s exactly what Guy uses it for: marketing for his books, VC firm, speeches and consulting. For which he’s exceedingly well paid. Indirect revenues rule!” – Chris Anderson For a review of my thoughts on blogs as persistent …
Ellison – The First Post-Scarcity Politician
“We need a politics of generosity based on the reality of abundance as opposed to a politics of not-enough.” – Keith Ellison
DRM: Done (Getting) Reece’s Money
“I’m not sure what is going to replace my use of iTunes yet, but for now I think I’ll lean on Amazon Prime’s free 2-day shipping and just order and rip CDs to good old fashioned high-bitrate MP3s.” – Manton Reece
Gang of One
“We use words to helps us group people efficiently, but sometimes the grouping loses sight of the individual in the groups” – Liz Strauss
First Crack 93. Five Things You Don’t Know About Me
Tagged by evoljennifer, here are 5 things you probably don’t know about me. #5. I actually get the itch to podcast far more frequently than I do. Really. Listen to 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me [7 min] for the other 4. Passing the meme to Kris, Matt, Tim, and Darrin.
Niche like a Weather Forecast
Eric Rice asks about the relationship between niche information and income levels. At first glance, I don’t think there’s a relationship. Everything is niche. I trust people all along the income scale are looking for very relevant information. Though, it could be I live so far down the tail, that I doubt the existence of …
Stop the Presses – Save the Journalism
NickelNuts pointed me to an article by media lawyer, Steven P. Aggergaard article via instant messaging, I read it in my web browser, and then posted this to a weblog. Aggergaard is arguing we need to keep paper in newspaper – because that equals journalism and full-time jobs. Despite all the costs and overhead he …
The Worst Best in 15 Years
“You might start by considering that the best-selling album of 2006 was actually the worst-selling best-selling album since Metallica back in 1991.” – Paul Kedrosky
Tell Me When It’s Over
“In my experience, until the feature is done, it’s quite difficult to predict when it will be done…” – Johanna Rothman