- Just like Facebook has done – repeatedly – Google has miscalculated privacy implications as well as the literacy of its total user base. Fortunately, they have an opportunity to recover, an opportunity they would be well advised to take advantage, which I suspect they are. So far, they’ve made a number of small but meaningful changes.
- I really like the ability to use the keyboard shortcuts from Google Reader. You can call them up by pressing [Shift+?] or view them here.
the Great Disruption
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Feb 10
Thoughts on Google Buzz
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Jan 10
Tablets could ruin everything
- Speculated mock-up of Apple’s forthcoming tablet product.
I’m watching all the speculation over Apple soon-to-be unveiled Tablet product, due to be revealed on 1/26/2010. Steve Job’s had questioned the wisdom of a tablet (NYTimes via John Gruber):
Another former Apple executive who was there at the time said the tablets kept getting shelved at Apple because Mr. Jobs, whose incisive critiques are often memorable, asked, in essence, what they were good for besides surfing the Web in the bathroom.
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Dec 09
A Tale of Two Ivies
One of the more frustrating things about Obama’s economic team and policy has been the use of the same advisors who contributed to the conditions that made the Great Recession possible (Geithner, Summers, etc.).
Some schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania, saw the changing and challenging economic environment and shifted their investments accordingly. An earlier email by Penn President Amy Gutman (via Business Insider) detailed the investment strategy and operating cost-containment measures:
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Dec 09
Fast Food Content
I’m not really that concerned about Fast Food Content. If you are not familiar with the term, here’s an explanation:
But for every link there are dozens of sites that outright steal our content with no attribution. Not just spam blogs, even the NYTimes does it. This isn’t a copyright issue – the stories are rewritten by actual people. But it’s far cheaper to simply take the news and rewrite it – if you can get away with it – than to hire people who do actual journalism. Over time, it becomes a competitive tax that is difficult to bear.
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Dec 09
What Climategate and Copenhagen are really about…
In a nutshell (Jeff McMahon at True/Slant):
[US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke] said unparalleled economic growth occurred in the 20th Century because of two factors: access to cheap, abundant fossil fuels and ignorance or disregard for the fact that those fuels produced greenhouse gas pollution that caused global warming. Both of those factors, he said, belong to history.
“Those days are over,” Locke said moments ago in Copenhagen. “What’s required is nothing less than completely redesigning the way we produce and consume energy…. We’re talking about creating an entirely new model of economic growth.”The world has spent a century investing in petroleum infrastructure, Locke said: refineries, pipelines, stations.
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Dec 09
Whaaaaaaat?
Oprah has an average viewership of 7 million. Facebook has 110 million (via Google AdPlanner).
Take a gander at these statistics for LinkedIn versus dead-tree legacy media:
By nearly every stretch of the imagination, social media (or at least LinkedIn) delivers a superior demographic. It totally befuddles me as to why internet advertisers aren’t DEMANDING more money.
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Nov 09
The Iron Paywall?
Saul Friedman, an 80-year old print veteran at Newsday, hops over the paywall (via BoingBoing):
Customers of Cablevision, the cable and Internet provider that owns Newsday, and people who subscribe to Newsday in print will still be able to browse Newsday.com unfettered. But Newsday recently announced that everyone else will have to pay $5 a week to see much of the site, making it one of the few newspapers in the country to take such a plunge.
