February 2010
7 posts
The Net brings lots of news, little new. Check out Nieman’s piece on who broke what re the big China hackers story. http://bit.ly/8ZTlaH
Just got sent this endless list of recommendation sites: http://bit.ly/b14BJu. The subject line of the email: What hath Digg wrought.
RT @FortuneMagazine: EXCLUSIVE Interview: Greenspan takes on his critics. Says housing bubble was a “once-in-a century event.” http://bi …
SEO, make way for real time optimization. Some good tips in here. http://bit.ly/afLRZ9 h/t@AC_Luke
<8% of households thinking of cutting cable. To spot those likely to do so: Look for red envelopes http://bit.ly/9cfx0h
At the Milwaukee airport, recombobulating. http://tweetphoto.com/10274331
Fortune.com: Avatar Blues: $500 million settlement wipes out the Navis http://bit.ly/boVCvu
The Jobs rant link: http://bit.ly/aibGyk
Jobs talks smack about $ADBE (lazy) and $GOOG (evil). Nice work @wired
January 2010
29 posts
Amazing local TV in my hometown: “Snow on the Ground” http://bit.ly/aLKH9v and a quadruple mangling of “tefillin” http://bit.ly/8qFlAX
Analyst on $AOL’s upcoming earnings: “It will take time to remedy a decade of a lack of innovation.” http://bit.ly/alh6MC
Looking for jobs in all the wrong places RT @FortuneMagazine Why Obama’s export push won’t boost employment. http://bit.ly/9y9ZHa
RT @danshanoff: Valuable advice in here RT @ceonyc New post: Dear MBAs who want to work at startups http://bit.ly/9VXiYf
RT @cdixon: These “capital gains cuts helps startups” arguments are goofy. there’s too much VC $ in the system. http://post.ly/L3wc
What are some of the worst? Name names! RT @djsiry: The amount of bullshit announcements from EV manufacturers is just stunning.
Congrats, Nick! RT @nxthompson: I’m now officially a contributing ed w/ @Bloomberg_TV. Still @wired of course; just now doing more TV w/ B.
Just filed my last feature for Wired (and maybe last story—for a while, at least). Now packing for the move to Fortune.
Worst takeover: AOL of Time Warner or Tishman/Blackrock of Stuy Town?
RT @jsnell: WHY did Brett Favre choose to throw that pass instead of doing the obvious thing and introducing a revolutionary tablet device?
There goes labels’ last great hope. @geekychic: MTV/Harmonix testing Rock Band Network: unsigned acts upload tracks, earn $$ as players DL.
RT: @markhor: Volcker comeback is an amazing turnaround. Uncharacteristically sudden decision by Obama, motivated by MA http://bit.ly/4KCp2r
Thanks to everyone for the mini-Twitstorm of congrats. I’m taking it as pure coincidence that #YouKnowurescrewed was a trending topic today.
Personal news: I thrilled to say that next week I’ll be joining Fortune to run Fortune.com. Kafka has the scoop http://bit.ly/6OIXns
RT @footnoted: RT @felixsalmon: AT&T charges fee to donate money for Haiti. Verizon and T-Mobile don’t. http://bit.ly/7Xt7K5 #attfail vi …
RT @redw0rm: D’oh! RT @TimothyFitz
If you’re looking for EA’s missing revenue, I think Zynga took it…
To win in Afghanistan, the military is taking tips from Fox, ESPN and the NFL. http://bit.ly/5Twb1f
On the fence re: advertising? Wired’s publisher makes a strong case RT @hsmittman: Fired a fully auto M16 in Vegas. http://twitpic.com/xgg2r
Yet my Google Voice transcriptions read like Mad Libs. RT @fredwilson: Voice recog on the nexus 1 is amazing.
Nice post by @felixsalmon on why consumers should never use debit cards. Only Visa and the banks win with DC. http://bit.ly/5XVODt
One place happy about Cali’s woes: Vegas. “Once California companies can afford to move, they will move in droves.” http://bit.ly/4MAgbG
How a $100 payday loan incurred—legally—a $1,000 finance charge. http://bit.ly/info/8EsNH3. One step away from this: http://bit.ly/6ifXAa
Dell used to do the same — those day are gone. RT @nytimesbits Zappos’ new business: selling its business model. http://bit.ly/63bLct
Cleaning house and found this. Voters felt betrayed by Lieberman. Protested he was owned by big health care. http://tweetphoto.com/7817865
Cool new gig for Coop RT @jayrosen_nyu: Fascinating job @mattizcoop signed up for: doing journalism for a gov’t commission http://jr.ly/mysx
RT @sethmeyers21: Opening ‘10 with the Northwestern Wildcats playing in a New Year’s Day bowl. That’s called a good start.
First fight of ‘10: Cablevision v Scripps. “We have no expectation of carrying their programming again.” http://bit.ly/8id753 ht @jimmaiella
December 2009
12 posts
Got an email from @eddyson replying to an email from Oct. She wants to get her inbox to 0 by 2010. Tempted to just keep responding…
make that @edyson.
RT @footnoted: Footnoted readers select Aubrey McClendon’s antique map collection ($CHK) as worst footnote of 2009 by a wide margin: htt …
My fave biz news daily emails of ‘09: Research Edge http://bit.ly/5lbSdT, FierceFinance http://bit.ly/16WGCx, IPFCT http://bit.ly/tfctR
A roadmap for covering Google in 2010. Nice post. RT @cdixon: What’s strategic for Google? http://bit.ly/4UwtZJ. h/t@infoarbitrage
RT @stenvesterli: “Ellison is often time-dyslexic — right about the fundamental trend but wrong on timing” http://bit.ly/91HNA7
RT @adamlashinsky: Let us praise VCs http://tinyurl.com/y98ccxx for all they do to make our world a better place. And so altruistic too.
Huge congrats to Time’s Justin Fox for the move to the Harvard Business Review! Very nice hire. http://bit.ly/8exfim
Latest story: How Larry Ellison predicted and enabled the cloud-based era of computing, yet failed to rule it. http://bit.ly/7i9bFN
Been back 5 days from Copenhagen and only now starting to thaw.
GM PR says Whitacre going to manage the company without moving from Texas. Also: government told earlier today that Fritz was out.
Fritz out as CEO of GM, Whitacre takes over. On conf call now. “Been a busy day,” he says. “We all agree that changes needed to be made.”
November 2009
5 posts
“The Dale Carnegie of Silicon-29 NMR” Ha! RT @hotdogsladies: Okay. Seriously. Read the reviews. http://bit.ly/1siOQw.
RT @felixsalmon How not to deliver bad news to Wall Street: http://bit.ly/146Wkf