About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I’ve been pondering the dedicated podcast devices tossed around by Rojas-Winer-Calacanis. The power and simplicity of it are quite attractive. I’m on board with the following: Data Input/Output: Wifi. No need for anything else. Supported Media Formats: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, anything else open & cheap. Pre-selling a small initial run as financing. As an interface …
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“It’s probably the most invasive system the government has yet deployed in terms of the number of people affected” – David Sobel, EFF lawyer. Like all these systems, we are all judged in secret, by a computer algorithm, with no way to see or even challenge our score. Kafka would be proud. – Bruce Schneier
Interesting conversation last evening about the price of iPods specifically, and ecommerce differences in general between the States and Belgium. Check this: 80 Gig iPod: $350 or €399 With the current exchange rate, that makes the European price tag: $529 Dang. For that price, it’d be worth flying to the States and loading up a …
The first breath of air as I stepped off the plane brought a big smile to my face. The air here is a little mustier. A little earthier. A little more natural. The increased intensity of the smell are one of my favorite things about Belgium (and the Netherlands and Germany). The onions chopped for …
“Ideas are easy, so let’s have lots of them.” “Invest in them incrementally.” “Make sure that the ideas we invest in can be “recycled” by adding to the collective intelligence and business capabilities, so that if they don’t work out individually we have created food for other groups to use.” – Adam Richardson
We landed in Brussels a couple hours ago. Smoothest trip we could have imagined. I let out a jet-lagged giggle at the ‘inspected by the TSA’ sticker on the car seat we checked.
“The US copyright office will permit mobile phone subscribers to unlock their phones, allowing them to be used by rival network providers.” – Andrew Orlowski, The Register “The exemptions become effective on 27 November 2006 and will only remain in effect for three years.” – Tim Finn “This is really only applicable to Cingular and …
We caught the “Heretics” episode of the This American Life last week on the drive back from Wisconsin. A superb listen – about Reverend Carlton Pearson and his New Dimensions church – best I’ve heard from public radio in quite a while (not that I’ve been able to stand listening that much). Pearson’s philosophy of …
Realism is just idealism stretched over time. – Thomas P. M. Barnett There really isn’t much a of ‘short run’. It quickly becomes yesterday. The long run, on the other hand, sticks around for quite a while. – Seth Godin
Bruno Bornsztein, Ben Moore, and I talk about their recently launched project – Curbly.com – a social networking site for sharing DIY projects, tips, and finding help. After we run through the site, we talk about; Using agile web development processes and what Ben calls WWIBAN (What Would I Bitch About Next) to be “one …
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