May 2008
“Move over, Google Labs: MSNBC has the pixels cooking with NewsWare”
– LOHAD - random rumblings on marketing and more » Blog Archive » MSNBC NewsWare Another gem: “The coolest piece of NewsWare, though, is the Spectra Visual Newsreader (screen shot above), which is one of the slickest pieces of Flash you’ll find anywhere these days.”
Density with dignity →
“That would have taken integrity and courage but then you would have had...”
– Bob Dole unloads on McClellan [via e-mail!] - Politico.com I wonder if there’s a historical drinking game in Dole calling people a “hot ticket”.
Nickels unveils 'Liveable South Downtown' plan →
The mayors plan calls for 6,000 more apartments and condos and 16,000 more workers over the next 20 years, along with offices, restaurants and shops to create an atmosphere humming with commerce, residents and nightlife around Seattle’s stadiums. Ooutgoing are spotty parking lots, building eyesores and most controversial: some of Safeco’s views of Puget Sound and the Space Needle. But...
“Q: So you are expecting this scenario to play out in the relatively near...”
– Next Housing Market to Crash? Seattle - The Home Front (usnews.com)
“If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be a duck. If it sings...”
– fourfour: Easy to swallow (via Jaime)
“My own Senior Prom was theme-less and held on a boat on Lake Union in Seattle....”
– Carrie Brownstein on Prom (via yourmonkeycalled)
When buying a home, living near rail lines is... →
“The longer a government or party are in office, the stronger are the...”
– FT.com’s Willem Buiter’s “Cleaning the stables” It is amazing that after all these years of the devolution repeating so analysis like this is not surprising, we still do little about changing the pattern.
Naveen Jain’s Latest Scam: Intelius →
Arrington digs into Jain. While you’re at it, how about some scrutiny toward a few other like-minded and affiliate “entrepreneurs”?
“Mr. Sharma estimates that iPhone users in the United States consume two and a...”
– The Guessing Game Has Begun on the Next iPhone - NYTimes.com
It Is Fun to Have Fun, but You Have to Know How →
“I love that msnbc.com continues to explore the outer boundaries of the online...”
– Cameron Moll via NorthTemple.com Maybe I should reevaluate my snarky reaction to Spectra…or maybe not. It does have a toilet flush, after all.
“Not only is it not necessary to read “Interview With the Vampire” by Anne Rice...”
– ‘1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die’ - Read On! Your Days Are Numbered (nyt) via Katy (yay!), as well as Rex’s list obsession. I refuse to tally my reading against the list. My five-year-long russophile streak probably won’t cross over well.
Spank Rock - Rick Rubin →
As we skipped Death Cab at Sasquatch and waited at our latern-lit campsite for the distant sounds of The Cure set to echo off the river gorge, a friend reminded me of the production team behind Spank…
“Provo, UT: You’re still single?”
– Comments on ‘Cities and Ambition’
“Because ambitions are to some extent incompatible and admiration is a zero-sum...”
– Cities and Ambition. I’m thoroughly impressed by this sentence. Need some serious thinking-on.
Life, Death and Twitter on the African Savannah →
Speculating if there’s a exchange-traded or microfinance market in sponsoring national park staff.
Epeus' epigone: An API is a bespoke suit, a... →
Great headline.
“Once a network reaches “critical mass”, Mr Grewal says, the incentives to join...”
– FT.com’s Caldwell reviewing/summarizing “Network Power” by David Singh Grewal about globalization’s network effects, which sounds remarkably relevant to just about everything going on today. (naked capitalism has a good analysis of varied responses to Grewal’s...
Seattle’s Condo Market: Where are the buyers? →
Human foot washes ashore in B.C., the fourth in 10... →
“The Coroners Service of British Columbia confirmed the remains to be human.” You were expecting a shoe on some other kind of foot?
“One Web will triumph over WAP content:
Full Web surfing comprises more than 77%...”
– Mobile Browsing Report
Harvard Negotiation Project: 5 Lasting Rules For... →
Seattle’s Condo Market: Where are the buyers? →
Lurking in the Mist →
Twitter: A community or a utility? →
Environmental Economics: This one looks... →
… but my Library doesn’t have electronic access to it. So, what do I do? Interlibrary loan? Nah (too much trouble). E-mail the authors for a copy? Nah (too much trouble). Ignore a potentially interesting paper? Yes. And we call it the information age?* I like honesty.
10 Ways Generation Y Will Change the Workplace... →
We’ll Hold Only Productive Meetings We’ll Shorten the Work Day We’ll Bring Back the Administrative Assistants [sic] We’ll Redefine Retirement We’ll Find Real Mentors We’ll Restore Respect to the HR Department We’ll Promote Based on Emotional Intelligence We’ll Continue to Value What Our Parents Have to Offer We’ll Enjoy Higher Starting Salaries We’ll Re-invent the Performance...
“But the most interesting thing [Biz Stone; creator of Twitter] said was that as...”
– Twitter: A community or a utility? (mathewingram.com) Great point.
