January 2010
18 posts
Merlin Mann Brings Out the Best in Seth Godin →
Don’t miss this. Perhaps 15-20% of the time I feel a little iffy about Seth Godin’s stuff. Perhaps it’s just because he does “marketing”. But I never feel iffy about Merlin, and he brings out the 80-85% of Seth I really like. (34 minute audio interview) Seth’s new book Linchpin sounds like a must read.
Never Dupe Your Readers - Davidson on Calacanis →
(note: read into the comments where Calacanis shows up to defend his actions)
I’m with Mike on this one. Calacanis had me going for a few minutes, until I clicked through and saw the totality of his tweets… I don’t follow him (I did once, until I realized I just signed up for the Mahalo hype list) and was only seeing pieces come through the rest of the tech world.
Mike nailed...
iPad: A Shift. →
My take on a shift in personal computing in the near future.
Fed Stimulus High Speed Rail Grant: Knowledge... →
Hurray for high-speed rail coming to New England!
In total, $485 million in stimulus funds will be invested to improve rail lines in the Northeast Corridor. In addition to the investments between New Haven, Springfield and St. Albans, Vermont, $35 million was awarded to Maine to restore rail service between Portland and Brunswick as part of the popular Downeaster service which begins in...
WatchElection and voting reforms are the keys to ending the purchase of our democracy. It’s not going to be easy. Watch this, please. Change-Congress.org is a good organization lead by a smart guy, Larry Lessig. You should offer them your support.
marco:
8 minutes on Obama’s first year, by Lawrence Lessig:
An analysis of what’s really accounts for the failures of this past year, and why...
Friday Lunch Links
In no particular order, here are somethings I’ve been reading today:
WSJ Jumps the Shark
Under Murdoch, Tilting Rightward at The Journal
The second link here is referenced from the first one, but I want to point it out because it take’s Ritholtz’s opinion piece,
Hence, I must now move the Journal out of my column of “Essential investor reads,” and into the column marked...
Supreme Court Strikes Down Key Campaign-Finance... →
In a ruling that has major implications for how elections are funded, the Supreme Court has struck down a key campaign-finance restriction that bars corporations and unions from pouring money into political ads.
[…] and potentially opens the door for unrestricted amounts of corporate money to flow into American politics.
Questions about the Meaning of the Mass Senate...
If you voted for Scott Brown because you honestly believe in the policies he supports, congratulations. If the majority of Massachusetts citizens truly supported the policies Brown endorses, I wouldn’t feel so upset this morning. But I think it’s clear that’s not the case.
Voters were pissed off for a number of reasons, and voted for Brown as a protest vote, as is,...
“Rarely has a pitch been more misleading. A vote for Brown is hardly a symbolic...”
– The Boston Globe’s endorsement of Martha Coakley for Senate.
“Hi Nikola, Al Gore wants you to change the numeral one in Brioni.”
“Huh?!”
– Typotheque: Gore’s choice
