December 2008
18 posts
Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking
For many...
A David Plouffe Interview →
The goal of this interview will just be to get you to teach us a little bit of Presidential Campaigning and also to give us a couple of insights from your own experience in this last campaign.
With Stevens’s Fall, a Pipeline for Lobbyists... →
“When Alaskan voters narrowly rejected Mr. Stevens’s bid for re-election last month, just days after a jury convicted him of federal ethics violations, it was in some ways like the closing of the plant in a company town.”
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“We can’t be too romantic about this [social media]. Legislation still has to be...”
– Paul Krugman
Krugman nailed this one. Expression of opinion and public discourse is an important part of a healthy democracy. But at the end of the day, things actually need to get done—whether that’s economists crunching numbers, health workers distributing vaccines, or nonprofits...
“We have to give objects, including objects of desire, a chance to die violently....”
– Baudrillard
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Jay-Z & Santogold - Brooklyn Go Hard
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Annals of Medicine: The Checklist →
Atul Gawande:
“[Dr. Peter] Pronovost remains, in a way, an odd bird in medical research. He does not have the multimillion-dollar grants that his colleagues in bench science have. He has no swarm of doctoral students and lab animals. He’s focussed on work that is not normally considered a significant contribution in academic medicine. As a result, few other researchers are venturing to...
“One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed...”
– Clayton Christensen, WSJ
“You were never exactly wrong. If you’d been born 10 years earlier and behaved...”
– Michael Lewis
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“We were some tiresome motherfuckers with all our talk about the end of news on...”
– Clay Shirky
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Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl
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“No way to BCC messages [in twitter or facebook]. In email I can copy my boss...”
– Robert Scoble, Ranting Against Facebook & Twitter
Scoble’s comments are a little off-base—he argues both sides of the point and wants a lot of cake. The asymmetrical follow is what makes twitter work for most people (he’s an exception in that he follows everyone). The other thing...
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