October 2009
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“Newspaper sites are the patent-leather stilettos of the online world: they get...”
– Advertising - Newspapers May Face Ad Difficulties on Web Sites, Too - NYTimes.com
Now there’s a sound bite.
This is worth a read — I haven’t seen a piece that’s so pro-networks in a while.
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“I’m not against MBA’s (I have one myself from University of Chicago and my...”
– Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC? (via mikehudack)
I’d like to write a lot more about this, but I need to study for my accounting midterm. Ain’t that ironic. I can’t help but say a few words about the experience and what I think the benefits are so far:
I’ll readily...
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“That means Zynga can quickly find out the impact of small adjustments—such as...”
– Inside the App Economy - BusinessWeek
Cha-ching.
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FT: The beast of the new journalism →
A look at how The Daily Beast is faring on its first birthday. It doesn’t have a timeline for profitability, and looks like the jury is still out — even if it does have Diller’s support (for now). He believes in online advertising, and DB is going to move into short books (less than 5,000 words).
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Twitter co-founder's 'Square' comes into focus →
I’m really glad people continue to look at mobile payment solutions — and I’m continually amazed by the iPhone as a platform for pretty much everything.
Along those lines, this month’s Wired (not yet online) has a note from the Publisher about Wired’s partnership with Kooaba, which lets you to take pictures of ads in the magazine with your iPhone/Android phone and...
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Thoughts on the Breakingviews and BusinessWeek...
In response to Let’s Make a Deal:
That Breakingviews stuck to its plan and succeeded is, I agree, remarkable. My sense is that opinion/hard-hitting analysis has generally been thought to be more valuable than straight news, in terms of dollars and cents, over the past few years. My takeaway from these deals is that companies that want to own news and analysis content — i.e....
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Steak Tartare in NYC
I’ve been a big fan of steak tartare since I studied in Paris in 2004. I don’t have it that often in NYC, and when I do it’s usually at a French restaurant. Last weekend I had Markt’s steak tartare and it was good.
My NYC steak tartare breakdown to date (worth remembering, anyway):
Markt
Edge: Do-It Yourself Customization
A lot of meat
Lightly seasoned by default
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“We’re a communications company that’s terrible at communicating.”
– My TWC technician, at the apartment right now. (via adamiss)
Not sure what to add to this.