The Technology Doesn’t Matter

Imagine what the adoption curve for books would be if the conversation about books dealt with typesetting and font intricacies and the compelling features of a particular kind of binding.

Shirky has a remarkable ability to put a skewer through a million things and get to the essence of the broader question that isn’t even articulated: […]

Man Machine Failures Plague Heathrow Terminal Opening

Heathrow’s Terminal 5 opened yesterday with a resounding thud that left travelers and employees stranded and BAA and British Airways officials red faced and shamed. This is as much a failure of man as it is the systems that have been designed and implemented.

There is simply no excuse for employees not being able to log […]

Twitter Analytics

Here’s are some cool services for slicing-and-dicing Twitter:

TweetVolume : Enter a keywords and a graph will be built showing the frequency of the keywords. It’s great for seeing how often your company is referred to versus competitors or doing a buzzword trend analysis.

TweetStats : Analyze your Twitter traffic. Apparently I am a Monday morning Twitterer […]

Twitter Add-on for Ecto

Just found this Twitter add-on for Ecto which tweets when I publish a blog post. Could FriendFeed be a subset of Twitter?

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Sticking w/Flock

I’ve been using the Firefox v3 beta for the last couple of weeks to see how it behaved and I’m going back to Flock, which has been revved to version 1.1.

The problem with Firefox on the Mac is twofold. First and foremost, it is still not a well behaved application in terms of memory […]

I Have Seen The Future and It Works

Broadcasters should be very afraid.

I’ve watched the quality of streaming video increase substantially in recent years and with the advent of exciting new technologies like Silverlight it is not beyond speculation to suggest that with the barriers lowering for new entrants to create and distribute compelling online video content and user experience that we will […]

Bookends

I often write about my experiences on airlines because there are few categories of consumer experiences that inspire such visceral reactions among customers as getting on an airplane. I am also old enough to remember when business travel didn’t suck as bad as it does today; when you could get on an airplane, have a […]

Maybe They Should Talk to the RIAA

“As network and affiliates, we both have an interest in slowing down the explosive growth of DVRs. This is about combating DVRs. As we developed this at every stage, there was an agreement that however we put this together, disabling the fast-forward function was key.”[From Techdirt: Dear ABC, You Don’t Compete With TiVo […]

Stanford drops tuition for some students

I’ve recently been critical of large higher education institutions for how they haven’t been using their formidable endowments, to expand education opportunities for more students. Harvard and Stanford in particular deserve considerable attention for what they do and don’t do with their multi-billion dollar investment funds, but today I want to point out something that […]

VC T-Shirts

Be forewarned, put down whatever you are drinking before you read these t-shirts. Hat tip to John Worrell

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