April 2008
30 posts
Ratatat vs. Justice - We Are Seventeen (Casio)
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“Lots of people who start companies seem to think it will be fun to make...”
– Joel Spolsky, A Real Cool Customer
Joel on why it’s better to sell to businesses, why it’s better to charge them more rather than less money, and why healthy margins are hugely important to startups.
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“As for Lenovo, look, they do nice work but in terms of image and corporate...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
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Tom Waits - All the World is Green
It’s a...
The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health (Ratatat...
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“However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell...”
– Clay Shirky - Gin, Television, & Social Surplus
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http://octopart.com/search?q=flux+capacitor →
Better hurry, there are only a few of these.
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“Kerris was the first person to show Keith Richards an iPod.”I said ‘This can...”
– The Set List: Rolling Stones Techie Shines A Light On Mick’s Love Of The iPod (via bijan)
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“But this strain of startups is a highly inbred line that holds more risks than...”
– DHH on the Bay Area
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Good Question
rach (orig gillianmae):
from the LA Times: Is it possible to lead a dedicated literary life in the billionaire-filled, media-crazed New York of today? To be heedless of the material world as you burrow into novels and ideas the way the old Partisan Review gang did in the ’40s and ’50s, to come up with notions that rock the intellectual landscape? And if so, who exactly is still paying...
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“So if you start the kind of startup where users come back each day, you’ve...”
– Paul Graham, Be Good
Graham nails it again—making the connection between benevolence, non-profits, and start-ups. This is a topic near and dear to my start-up, Mobile Commons. We’re a little different than our friends at tumblr, hypem, or other consumer-facing start-ups. They all have lots...
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“When the network becomes as fast as the processor, the computer hollows out and...”
– Eric Schmidt, 2003. Moore’s law and Grove’s law are on a collision course.
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del.icio.us →
fred-wilson:
I included this chart in my post yesterday. I selected it because it made the point I wanted to make (that delicious was languishing under Yahoo!’s ownership)…
I got the following email from Joshua yesterday afternoon:
We continue to grow normally.
Unique users is not a good measure of our growth, though.
Much of our traffic is through the firefox and other browser...
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“I mean… the reason I don’t blog is that it’s inherently...”
– Nicholson Baker (who was great last night at NYPL Live)
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“These kinds of connections can work to stabilize the world in a crisis. But not...”
– This is a lexical definition of sensationalist reporting. Thanks, Newsweek.
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fred-wilson:
Kanske Ar Jag Kar I Dig - Jens...
“Four years ago I was leading a popular open source software project, born out of...”
– Dean Allen - Founder of TextDrive
What a great kick-off to a new blog. I’m looking forward to reading.
“I have three Battlestar Galactica parties to go to tonight. Does that make me...”
– Ben
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April Fool's 2008
Blogoscoped definitely had the best April Fool’s joke—playing on a popular meme and only nailing the geeks.
Michael Arrington’s Facebook lawsuit post fell pretty flat (for me). It didn’t seem plausible, but the notion of “personal brand” was not sufficiently satirized and seemed a little too close to the truth.
On the other hand, Tim Ferriss’ reveal of the...
Velvet Underground, Pale Blue Eyes
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Beirut, Nantes
m-in-e posted this a while ago. I...
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