January 2012
1 post
WatchThis is the first in a weekly Bloomberg TV series looking at the most-widely shared stories on LinkedIn. To read all of the stories we talk about, visit the LinkedIn Blog.
December 2011
4 posts
Everyone loves a failure: A look at the top 5 most-shared stories on @LinkedIn this week. My latest post: http://t.co/0dyb7twM
Isaacson is the new Robert Caro. RT@Fortunemagazine: Exclusive: Isaacson’s Jobs biography could expand http://t.co/UmuVvTHl
Paul Smalera: Tumblr Cop - Big thanks to Paul Smalera (of the Reuters Smaleras) for noticing that Tumblroth… http://t.co/0jlZ9yaT
Paul Smalera: Tumblr Cop
Big thanks to Paul Smalera (of the Reuters Smaleras) for noticing that Tumblroth has been running a broken image as its background for probably 5 or 6 months now. Using the broken window theory of policing, he figured that if I left my Tumblr like this, it wouldn’t be long before people were coming here to huff paint. Bad idea! So there’s a new theme and, thanks to this post, new...
July 2011
3 posts
RT @leighgallagher: Is it really true that none of these young, nimble cos—Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Groupon, Foursquare—has a woman …
Cool! Thanks. RT @TheByliner 21 great reads by Daniel Roth http://t.co/wgJ6djD Selected hits by @LinkedIn’s new Exec Editor, via @TheByliner
My social summary is out! http://smf.is/1ue21M (w/ @LinkedIn, @wired, @jimpoco & 11 others)
June 2011
7 posts
. @karaswisher, @moorehn, @wired & 9 others showed up in my social summary! http://smf.is/1ucjzF
Come check out my summary! http://smf.is/1uaFab (w/ @johncabell, @ewiesen, @wired & 17 others)
RT @MicheleSteele: The Dodgers’ top 3 creditors: Manny Ramirez ($20.9m); Andruw Jones ($11m); Hiroki Kuroda ($4.5m)
Personal news: Leaving @fortunemagazine to join @LinkedIn. Sad to be leaving the incredible journalists here; excited about what comes next.
Fortune, 1938: “No better way to channel the spending habits of the American male than through gadget appeal.” http://bit.ly/lIXoGw
RT @FaustErika: Perhaps Mitt Romney should have started a coupon site today. Or at least shared his Adjusted CSOI.
CJR spanks @felixsalmon for a 2007 story. http://bit.ly/kO4Njp Finally? Even odder is that they explain what Felix meant by “grok.”
May 2011
5 posts
Just posted an amazing 1938 Fortune story about Coney Island. Carneys, kosher picnics, and public baby incubators (?!) http://t.co/T9fL17k
We’ve radically changed Fortune.com. Check out the new look and the new Term Sheet channel. http://t.co/1DQh5TH
Market closed up. Good job, us! http://yfrog.com/gz4r5gej
Dan Gross has the best email subject lines: “From Gross”. Write once, run everywhere. @grossdm
RT @TrayHairston: “What The Bachelor is to dating and American Idol is to singing in the shower, Trump is to business” http://bit.ly/k2syie
April 2011
2 posts
Great hire by @fastcompany: writer/editor/idea generator/pop culture know-it-all’er @nmillions joins as West Coast editor. Congrats to both!
If you are going to read just one @ColinCBarr post all day (but why limit yourself?) make it this one on why we’re more broke than we think.
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
Jobs talks smack about $ADBE (lazy) and $GOOG (evil). Nice work @wired
The Jobs rant link: http://bit.ly/aibGyk
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
What are some of the worst? Name names! RT @djsiry: The amount of bullshit announcements from EV manufacturers is just stunning.
RT @cdixon: These “capital gains cuts helps startups” arguments are goofy. there’s too much VC $ in the system. http://post.ly/L3wc
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.