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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Stuff to keep you awake at night
Here are 10 potential geopolitical disasters. #1? Israel attacks Iran and all hell breaks loose.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Improving email
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
The Longest Way
The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
This video is incredibly cool.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Just Go
There is a lot of hubris in Congress, of course, but there is the hubris of Robert Byrd who just became the longest serving member of Congress in history. He refuses to retire even though his health often prevents him from voting and the Democratic Governor of West Virginia would surely appoint a fellow Democrat to fill his seat should he retire.Just go.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Subscriptions
The current conventional wisdom is that consumers will sooner or later have to start paying for online content. That may or may not be true.
My own view is that the core problem is not that people won't pay. They will pay. But when you add up all the digital pennies you end up with a top line that is a fraction of what today's top line subscription revenues look like. This is only due in part to the fact that we've trained consumers to expect stuff for free. The other more important fact is that so many people are willing to create and distribute quality content (and services) for free. Think of how much excellent news analysis is being created on top-quality blogs, for example. yes the authors would like to get some form of payment for the content but for them to do so would necessarily cut into their traffic and harm them on the advertising side. And we've reached the point where top bloggers can make a six-figure income from advertising alone.
This may be bad news for newspapers and for journalism as a profession (because many fewer of them will be able to make a living), but I'm not yet convinced it's bad news for body politic.
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My own view is that the core problem is not that people won't pay. They will pay. But when you add up all the digital pennies you end up with a top line that is a fraction of what today's top line subscription revenues look like. This is only due in part to the fact that we've trained consumers to expect stuff for free. The other more important fact is that so many people are willing to create and distribute quality content (and services) for free. Think of how much excellent news analysis is being created on top-quality blogs, for example. yes the authors would like to get some form of payment for the content but for them to do so would necessarily cut into their traffic and harm them on the advertising side. And we've reached the point where top bloggers can make a six-figure income from advertising alone.
This may be bad news for newspapers and for journalism as a profession (because many fewer of them will be able to make a living), but I'm not yet convinced it's bad news for body politic.
Article here..
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Mini Cape Town
I love tilt-shift photography, which creates the illusion that an image is miniaturized, and have just discovered a web site called tiltshiftmaker that will take uploaded photos and simulate tilt-shifts.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Cruise Inflation
The Oasis of the Seas is now the world's largest cruise ship. 40% larger, in fact, than the next largest cruise ship.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Most Interesting Shots (Today) #8
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Amtrak deflation
With the exception of the Northeast Corridor services, all Amtrak routes lose money. But the surprise, to me anyway, was how much some routes lose. The Sunset Limited, which runs from New Orleans to LA, loses $460/passenger!
Now, I'm a hug Amtrak fan and I ride the rails about twice a week between New York and Philly, but it really burns me that places where rail makes good economic sense like the Northeast are starved of funds to feed the romance of the rails in parts of the country where it makes no sense. I mean, surely people riding from New Orleans to LA could, er, pay a little more?
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
World's Tiniest Model Train
This took me a little while to figure out, but this is a working model of a very tiny train set.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
News deflation
Can reams of news articles produced for $15-$20 a pop crush the New York Times online? That's the question posed by the business model of Demand Media.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Declining Dollar
Long term, there is no where for the dollar to go but down, especially if countries like those of OPEC stop using dollars to price commodities like oil.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Online Ad Deflation
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Here's a quick explanation of Google Wave. Can I have an invitation to be a beta tester please?
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
News deflation
Consumers will not pay for news. Period.
Newspapers were able to charge for news because they provided essentially a monopoly service before TV and the Internet. Now, there's so much news from so many sources (many with purely ad-supported business models) that there's always a free option to turn too. Turns out, most news is a commodity.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Deflation News
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