May 2012
1 post
… think before you say something stupid. Or punch something hard.
– Jim McCarthy on Live 2.0
February 2012
1 post
March 2011
1 post
It makes no sense to have a big corporate infrastructure to do, basically, the...
– Om Malik on This week In Tech. Replace “media organization” with “theatre” and make other similiar, relevant changes and you have another very timely statement.
February 2011
1 post
Isn’t this costing you money? Are you bad at business?
There are some...
– The Alonetone About page
August 2010
3 posts
The reason most advertising (and artistic endeavors) are lousy is not that...
– Brian Belefant on 60 Second Director
To be clear, if the New York Times is to be believed, Verizon and Google...
– The Economist
…that we have any regulators at all is a testament, on some basic level,...
– The Economist
June 2010
1 post
Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.
– Scott Adams
May 2010
1 post
It is not acceptable to me that 21st century knowledge retention has become so...
– Understand The Web by Ben Ward
March 2010
3 posts
Be careful of the “everyones” who say pageviews are imperfect but the best we...
– John Gruber on Daring Fireball
But right now, we don’t have functional big banks. We have a cartel run by...
– James K. Galbraith in “The Nation”
So a brand that’s been successful for over three decades is now curated by...
– Amanda Ameer at Life’s A Pitch
December 2009
1 post
Now there was silence again. This time I was the one not talking. There was this...
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
October 2009
2 posts
The central problem — our changing culture. The world has changed, but...
– Greg Sandow
We’ve been working ‘outside the box’ for a long time. For...
– Rosalba Rolon, artistic director of the Pregones Theater in the Bronx, speaking at a conference about the future of NYC Performing Arts
September 2009
1 post
When you see something that’s taking advantage of new technology to give...
– Paul Graham on Post-Medium Publishing
August 2009
1 post
The internet is becoming this thing where it’s just people trying to...
– Merlin Mann
June 2009
1 post
That’s because nothing in medicine is without risks. Complications can arise...
– Atul Gawande in The New Yorker
May 2009
2 posts
There probably aren’t many jobs that can be reduced to rule-following and still...
– Matthew B. Crawford in the NY Times
When I tell people that my iPhone isn’t a very good phone—its reception in...
– How I got addicted to playing games on my iPhone. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine: via Mike Daisey
April 2009
1 post
controlling the scarcity of something that isn’t scarce can’t work
– Joey Baker
March 2009
3 posts
Undo Send for Gmail is all fine and good, but I want Undo Receive, I want some...
– via Peter Rojas on Twitter
We need a Coalition for Culture and we need it urgently.
– From New Music Strategies
February 2009
11 posts
When bombs went off in Mumbai last November, American Express immediately went...
– Penelope Trunk via Brazen Careerist
In other words, brethren in the arts community: stop talking about public...
– The Nonprofiteer
Our world, our educational system, and our arts have become Fogelberged. We have...
– Scott Walters
1 tag
As a folow up to his music made with a stapler, Diego Stocco creates music with sand!
All a product is, all a company is, is an an “Idea Amplifier”....
– Hugh Macleod at Gaping Void
January 2009
10 posts
Now you see I am also not confusing Art with Entertainment. Because...
– Robyn Archer in Industry that pays and Art that doesn’t
– and this is the crucial point: the central premise of there being a...
– Andrew Haydon in The Guardian
The old concept of the album is dead. However, we now have an opportunity - if...
– George Howard in 9 Giant Steps
Now we can see why blogging and the Net matter so greatly in political...
– Jay Rosen
There’s long been a fundamental problem with the green world — the myriad...
– Joel Makower writing in the Marketing And Strategy blog.
Before long, it won’t simply be the case that you shouldn’t simply...
– Mark Hannah in Media Shift
I think the sticky wicket is this: How do we discuss our own interpretation of a...
– Meaning
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious...
– Theodore Adorno - quited in the Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
Guest post: Acting as a non-monetary economy
from The Long Tail by Chris...
– Adam Gurri writing on Chris Anderson’s blog “The Long Tail”
December 2008
6 posts
Gioia, a poet, didn’t suggest that people had stopped reading poetry...
– The Guardian - How To Make America A Nation Of Theatregoers by Alexis Soloski
…when there is no vision of progress or betterment to unify a society, the...
– From Kevin Kelly - The Missing Near Future
VALIDATION