November 2011
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April 2010
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Flickr users: Don't sell out to Getty
ckck:
“Let’s briefly examine Getty’s relationship to Flickr photographers. You may be honoured that the world’s largest agency has taken an interest in your images, but please remember that Getty keeps 80% of whatever it makes on your photos, and that it retains exclusive rights to those images. This is a much larger slice of the pie than the 50% the agency typically extracts from its non-Flickr...
December 2009
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Economists are the new rock stars?
With all of the economic shenanigans of the past couple of years, people are suddenly interested in economists, of all things. Men (it’s mostly men) who have spent most of their lives hanging out in academia and ignoring their chronic dandruff have been thrust into the public spotlight with all of the trappings of rock-stardom.
If the analogy with rockstars seems like a bit of a stretch,...
November 2009
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Interesting article on the changing face of... →
Found this fascinating. Looks like Live music is overtaking recorded music for revenues. At the same time, artists are taking home more of the dough, at the expense of the old music publishers…. I think all content is heading this way. Even TV!
October 2009
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More Inaction on climate change →
Until citizens of developed nations accept that there will be a material cost to action on climate change, then this impasse will remain just that, an impasse.
September 2009
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Stumbled Upon (in a park)... The Boom-Bench →
Wondering around the New Island Festival, on governors Island, NY, this weekend, I stumbled upon the “Boom-Bench”. It’s a bench equipped with speakers that allows you to play music via Bluetooth enabled devices (e.g. cellphones with music players). I love the interactivity of this idea: stroll up with your device and… instant party. Reminds me of Ben Cerveny’s...
Great photo montage of people at Burning Man 2009 →
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My First Burn
I went to “Burning Man” for the first time just over two weeks ago.
It was an amazing experience. It was, in fact, one of the more interesting (and charged) experiences of my life so far.
When I got back, full of inspiration, I had a go at describing it to people (“Imagine if a bunch of free-spirited artists and hippies took over the Las Vegas Strip and remodelled it on new age...
May 2009
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April 2009
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Credit Crisis Visualized →
Thanks to @rickybobby77 for finding this
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Why the current obsession with Vampires?
I’m strangely fascinated these days by our obsession with Vampire stories. I think the current run began with the wildly popular “Buffy the vampire slayer” from a few years back and has since migrated to shows like “Trueblood” and, of course the insanely popular “Twilight”.
So what’s the whole obsession with Vampires all about?
I think it seems...
March 2009
10 posts
Picture of Jenny →
I like this one. So do you, apparently
Here's Matt's Article in "Rolling Stone" - you... →
“With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial...”
– Clay Shirky (via betaworks) (via mikehudack)
Bankers and the cold war philosophy of "mutually...
So this morning’s Financial Times erupted in Fury over this 90% “special tax” on people who took taxpayer money and then used it to pay themselves massive bonuses.
Here are some corker quotes from this morning’s FT “weekend edition” (who put no less than six journalists on the case):
“Introducing this 90% tax is like taking the finance industry out back...
“…and the worst part about it is that we’re still in denial - we...”
– The brilliant Matt Taibbi in the April 2nd issue of Rolling Stone Magazine
Porn in the woods? →
“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.”
– Peter Ustinov, British actor and writer
“Watching Hulu on a computer/Web browser is a fine, if unprofitable experiment...”
– NBC Boss Explains Why Boxee Users Can’t Have Hulu (GE, NWS) (via tootwo) (via mikehudack)
