September 2008
Flash Seems To Be Coming To The iPhone. But Is... →
When the iPhone was first released, there was an abundance of speculation over whether the phone’s lack of Flash support would cripple its browser and give us something less than “the real web”…
World's Largest Cruise Ship Probably Leaves... →
Only five Solstice-class cruise ships will be produced, and the first one (aptly named Solstice) has just left port for the sea. Weighing approximately 134,000 tons, the Solstice is over 1,000…
Slow Food NYC : Events →
My Thoughts On "Startup Depression" →
I received a bunch of requests yesterday to address Jason Calacanis’ “startup depression” email that was sent out over the weekend. Alley Insider had the full text of it online but they took it…
Lucy, Congress, and the New Plan Trick →
So here’s where we are at: Almost two weeks ago the market soared when late on a Thursday word broke that Congress would soon see a U.S. plan to help solidify the financial system. It continue to…
The Sun Also Sets →
For the last few years, Baseball Prospectus has had a happy and productive partnership with the New York Sun, contributing content to what has been one of the best–if not simply the best–sports…
Tax the Hell Out of Wall Street; Give it to Main... →
Tax every single share of stock that is bought and sold 10 cents per transaction. One dime. If you buy a share of stock, your brokerage pays a 10c tax. If you sell a share, your brokerage pays a…
Getting back into prototyping. Setting up my laptop with Ruby on Rails. Haters, buzz off. RoR is great for prototyping.
Analyzing The Bailout: What's In It, Anyway? →
What’s in this massive bailout Congress wasted the whole weekend negotiating? We wasted our Sunday evening reading all 110 pages to find out. (If you want to do the same, click here.)Key…
OK stats fiends, go to town on http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/. So delicious.
Reps up for re-election doom bailout plan. http://tinyurl.com/3ohgzr
http://tinyurl.com/6dngnx is good reading. Also, go read Taleb’s book The Black Swan if you haven’t yet.
McCain takes credit for bill before it loses: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14088.html
Chart: Indices Bobsledding to the Bottom →
Words don’t do it justice, so here you are, your moment of markets non-zen. I’m still amazed at the nitwits who thought they had an argument-stopper simply because the markets didn’t fall 1,000…
Gearing up for a terrible day in the stock market. I need to find me some gold coins.
ugh. Dave’s life savings faring worse than the market. Sell now?
walking to work wearing my p13n + c7y = bff shirt. Ftw.
Fudge. The show is sold out. It’s so hard to get people organized, yet I hate going to shows by myself.
Signing out of Twitter just reloads https://twitter.com/home. @ev: what gives?
At NYCR with @bre watching Buckaroo Bonzai. I’m watching it for the first time and it’s awesome.
Trying to think of what to etch on the back of my laptop. Coming up empty. Tried flickr but grayscale doesn’t work.
Why community is hard →
Community is hard, and so is pretty much all social stuff. But why is so darn hard? Why do strange, unexpected things keep happening, like the wikitorial and the Digg revolt and so on? I hope you…
The Web, it’s ALIVE! →
Doc Searls Weblog · The Live Web
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. The web is a medium for activities - for collaboration and participation. When I read (or hear or watch) something, I want to…
A Feature Request For Facebook →
I use Facebook a bit, but I use Twitter more. It’s surely because of our investment in Twitter. But it was like that before our investment in Twitter. It could be because the people I…
Jazz88 FM - The World's Premier Jazz Radio... →
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McCain’s extensive ties to gambling industry: http://tinyurl.com/4xtzz4. This is big news.
The Bad Plus is playing tonight at the Village Vanguard. That means I need to drop all plans and go see them. Who wants to join me?
I’ve got a bracelet too. Loving Obama right now.
the CNN audience meter is fascinating. Televsion is changed forever.
watching @Bre on the history channel right now. History hackers.
Pants status: No pants while playing rock band.
history hackers is awesome. Go watch it. West coast folks, it’s on at 8 and 12 today.
Can These Startups Beat Paypal? →
Despite the acceptance of credit cards and services like PayPal, the issue of getting money from one person to another online still offers opportunities for innovation. Venture firms are…
Voltaire, Batman and the Precipice →
Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. — Dark Knight (2008)…
WaMu, Pink Floyd, etc. →
When I was a child I had a fever. My hands felt just like two balloons. Now I got that feeling once again. I cant explain, you would not understand. This is not how I am. I have become…
Can These Startups Beat Paypal? →
Despite the acceptance of credit cards and services like PayPal, the issue of getting money from one person to another online still offers opportunities for innovation. Venture firms are…
My BailOut Solution - I’m In For At Least $50mm →
As you can tell by the number of the posts on this subject, I think we are in a very serious financial situation in this country. It’s bad for everyone and like many others while I think the…
There goes WaMu. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26wamu.html
Mark Cuban is spot on: Talking about the failing economy will cause the economy to fail. http://tinyurl.com/4h56pg
Just tried out Balsamiq Mockups. It’s super easy. It’s even better when you turn off the Comic Sans font.
The Bailout: The Myth, The Legend, The BestSeller →
If enough people talk about it, it must be important, right ? Well the Bailout is important. It can provide needed liquidity into financial markets.
Unfortunately, it is now more important than…
After the BailOut - Can the Bankers Who Caused the... →
The bailout is a given. Its needed to introduce liquidity into the system. I wonder why no one is defining what happens after the 700B of mortgage and other assets are purchased by the Fed.
Has…
Dow Theory Letters →
How to Build a Next-Gen Business Now →
For the last ten days - as I’ve been predicting for the last few years both here and at bubblegen - a fire has raged through the heart of the global economy. Central banks and governments are…
Stencils for OmniGraffle →
Just posted my idea called Prototype Driven Design. Feedback is welcome. http://tinyurl.com/3lzk38
Prototype Driven Development →
Disclaimer: I have no idea if this works. I thought of this last week as I was walking around with my friend Bre and decided to post it here to get feedback. There are many people who have had far…
Activity-Centered Design →
Is the future of design activity-centered?
Quite some time back I argued that Information Architecture was the wrong frame in which to approach design. My post got a lot of push-back from the…