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The steaks they are a changin’ (via New Steak on the Block...

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:36:50 -0400

The steaks they are a changin’

(via New Steak on the Block - WSJ.com)

1997: I was there. ilovecharts: Nokia Chronology

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:37:09 -0400

1997: I was there.

ilovecharts:

Nokia Chronology

Union Station (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 20 May 2012 16:37:39 -0400

Union Station (Taken with instagram)

Rhododendron (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 20 May 2012 12:57:30 -0400

Rhododendron (Taken with instagram)

Growth (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 20 May 2012 12:55:34 -0400

Growth (Taken with instagram)

"What Fenway Park has is what it always has offered for exactly 100 years: baseball in an intimate,..."

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:04:20 -0400

“What Fenway Park has is what it always has offered for exactly 100 years: baseball in an intimate, beautiful, green park as cherished as Yosemite or Yellowstone (though somewhat easier to hit a ball out of).”

- Amen

Here’s to another 100 years of Fenway Park - ESPN

Doner kebab on @WSJ’s front page: greatest hedcut ever?...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:11:26 -0400

Doner kebab on @WSJ’s front page: greatest hedcut ever? (Taken with instagram)

The Artist will win the Oscar for Best Picture

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:03:00 -0500

You heard it here first: The Artist will win the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture, according to a regression model I developed with a team of classmates in business school. The model predicts The Artist holds a formidable 97.7% chance of winning.

The Martin Scorsese film Hugo comes in second with a 25.6% chance of winning, and The Descendants comes in a distant third with just under a 5% chance of victory.

The model correctly predicted the previous two Best Picture winners, The Hurt Locker (2010) and The King’s Speech (2011), and correctly predicts 82% of the Best Picture winners since 1970.

The Artist boasts the largest predicted chance of winning Best Picture in the three year history of the model.

Upgraded foursquare Explore is excellent — it found me a...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:25:30 -0500

Upgraded foursquare Explore is excellent — it found me a new brunch place within 10 minutes of my apartment without a huge wait. On Sunday. At 12:30 p.m.

Are you not amazed?

(via Foursquare Solves A Basic UI Problem That Eludes Google Maps And Yelp | Co.Design: business innovation design)

This is how one advertises for cars, in my opinion: let them...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:40:46 -0500

This is how one advertises for cars, in my opinion: let them speak for themselves.

60 Years of the SL Roadster - Mercedes-Benz (by mbusa)

"In the world of plenty, the only currency is attention and attention is what defines “media."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:17:09 -0500

“In the world of plenty, the only currency is attention and attention is what defines “media.””

- Om Malik, on GigaOM buying PaidContent. Two brands with serious authority that command attention.

Why we are buying paidContent — Tech News and Analysis

"The rules: everyone stacks their phones face-down, and if a person at the table reaches for their..."

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:52:17 -0500

“The rules: everyone stacks their phones face-down, and if a person at the table reaches for their device before a meal is over, they have to pay the whole bill.”

- Participated in a phone stack last night. No one cracked, though we did almost reach for The Google to settle some arguments. Zeitgeist!

Yes, Cell Phone Stacking Is Now a Thing - Trendwatch - Eater National (via etagwerker)

Popped this for New Year’s Eve — was better than...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:07:54 -0500

Popped this for New Year’s Eve — was better than Champagne. Great drinking and a lot of fun.

brewnoob:

I’ve been saving Infinium in my fridge as well, and have been saving the beer for the best occasion to open it and share with fellow beer lovers.

via notyouraveragebeersnob:

I can’t wait to drink this!!! Samuel Adams and Weihenstephan Infinium Ale. It’s been sitting in my garage, if it tastes half as good as it looks I’m into it.

When beer prices get out of hand, head to social media

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:20:45 -0500

NYC pricing is a real problem for craft beer. Certain grocery stores are especially ridiculous in marking prices up to and above corner deli levels.

brewyork:

We’ve written lately about beer prices getting out of hand at bars in New York City. With the growing popularity of craft beer in the city, it’s no surprise that some businesspeople might try to take advantage of the boom by driving up prices.

How do we combat this?

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"If you’re a pure economist and following the laws of supply and demand, the argument is that if..."

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:48:41 -0500

““If you’re a pure economist and following the laws of supply and demand, the argument is that if someone is willing to pay a price, then it is not excessive,” said Liran Einav, an associate economics professor at Stanford. “But that all depends on the type of long-term relationship you want to build with your customers.””

- When standard economics meets behavioral economics. This week: dynamic pricing bites back.

Disruptions: Taxi Supply and Demand, Priced by the Mile - NYTimes.com

"There has never been a mass market for good journalism in this country. What there used to be was a..."

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:03:23 -0500

“There has never been a mass market for good journalism in this country. What there used to be was a mass market for print ads, coupled with a mass market for a physical bundle of entertainment, opinion, and information; these were tied to an institutional agreement to subsidize a modicum of real journalism. In that mass market, the opinions of the politically engaged readers didn’t matter much, outnumbered as they were by people checking their horoscopes. This suited advertisers fine; they have always preferred a centrist and distanced political outlook, the better not to alienate potential customers. When the politically engaged readers are also the only paying readers, however, their opinion will come matter more, and in ways that will sometimes contradict the advertisers’ desires for anodyne coverage.”

- Clay Shirky gets into it. Bonus points for use of “anodyne.”

Are Newspapers Finally Figuring Out How To Reward Their Best Customers? | paidContent

"In short, micro-pub is a combination of old fashioned newsletter, blog and a directory service,..."

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:36:00 -0500

“In short, micro-pub is a combination of old fashioned newsletter, blog and a directory service, managed by one to ten people. This is a model which is sustainable and perhaps makes more sense than some of the idiotic models proposed by hype meisters of the dot-com era.”

- Interesting read from Om Malik. For those interested in a niche covered by a micropub the value is tremendous — PaidContent is my go-to source for media/publishing news.

And, according to Om, PaidContent founder Rafat Ali is making more off it than he did as a journalist.

The Dawn of the MicroPubs — Tech News and Analysis

evangotlib: courtenaybird: More evidence that different...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:44:16 -0500

evangotlib:

courtenaybird:

More evidence that different devices fuel news consumption at different times

Computers get used during the workday (that big plateau from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

Tablets get used at breakfast, during commutes, on the couch, and in bed (peaks around 8 a.m. and 10 p.m.)

Smartphones get used in spare moments throughout all waking hours.

Amazing to see my own device usage so clearly as part of a larger consumption pattern.

City foliage (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:01:35 -0500

City foliage (Taken with instagram)

Apparently (pun intended) if one wants to read the New York Post...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:35:29 -0500

Apparently (pun intended) if one wants to read the New York Post on an iPad, one must download the application instead of using the browser. Makes sense from a publisher perspective: get downloaded, get user data, turn casual visitors into more frequent readers. After all, casual readers — like me — are not that valuable (even though they do boost traffic stats). I haven’t seen this elsewhere, but it is consistent with News Corp.’s strategy.

I didn’t download it. Maybe next time.