January 2011
22 posts
Happy →
Just a quick note to say Happy New Year and wish you all a great 2011.
I will try and do something of a roundup in the coming days, hopefully make it interesting, but I just wanted to say something real quick. Thanks to all of you for spending time with me, whether it’s in person or just by subscribing to the site’s RSS feed. It means quite a bit to be surrounded by so many amazing...
December 2010
9 posts
The Cubist Phase of Management →
I really liked this explanation of the changes in the role of manager over the last few decades from the NYTime’s article about brainstorming over the weekend:
Dev Patnaik of Jump has his own answer to the [innovation] why-now question. He contends that advances in technology over the past three decades have gradually forced management to reconceive its role in the corporation, shifting its...
WatchSNL: Julian Assange Hacks Into Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Person Of The Year’ Thank-You Message
Best line: “Time Magazine, always on the cutting edge. Discovering Facebook only weeks after your grandmother.”
Everything is Media →
I was telling a few folks about a talk I gave in Singapore last year and decided to just throw the deck up. The audience was a bunch of media people and essentially I went in and told them content doesn’t matter … At some point I’ll write the thing up in essay form, but until then, here’s the deck.
Everything is MediaView more presentations from nbrier. Via: Everything is...
Mechanical Turk + Twitter →
So it turns out Quora, the new question/answer service that keeps popping up, has set up Twitter accounts for most of its popular topics. That’s not necessarily revolutionary, except for the…