“ Today the blogosphere is so charged, so polarized, and so filled with haters hating that it’s simply not worth it. I’d rather watch from the sidelines and be involved in a smaller, more personal, conversation.
Official announcement regarding my retirement from blogging.
Snippety bits
“ Hansson has a predictable response to such charges. “I don’t usually go around saying ‘Fuck you’ to everyone I meet,” he says. “But sometimes it’s the appropriate answer.
The Brash Boys at 37signals Will Tell You: Keep it Simple, Stupid
“ If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” -Betty Reese
A great quote about size - (37signals)
“ …the type of ‘friending’ activity that occurs on social networking sites, where users link to one another’s profiles to grow their networks, highlights the radically changing notion of what it means to be acquainted with someone.
Parenting 2.0 / frog Design Mind
“ When you can distribute something digitally, for free, it will spread (if it’s good). If it spreads, you can use it as a vehicle to allow people to come back to you and register, to sign up, to give you permission to interact and to keep them in the loop.
Seth’s Blog: Music lessons
“ Someone you probably went to school with but can’t remember just sent you an unfunny photo you’ve seen 48 times before” I love you Facebook
Twitter / Trevor May: “Someone you probably went …
“ She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: “That’s yours.
BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Woman jailed for testicle attack
“ happily eating my own shit
Twitter / Tom Hume: happily eating my own shit
“ Isn’t the point really that the internet has provided us with a new and alternative world/space/universe? *Real* continuums of time and space are altered. Using the internet we become cyborgs in that our human senses are extended and enhanced with the help of technology. Within a hyper-real space, we are becoming hyper-social, we are being virtually social. It is about our e-behaviour and doesnt really translate to our embodied lives - as a website can’t translate to a retail outlet. We are on a new frontier - ahoy there!!
Sophie Tanner, commenting on Is Social Media Social? @ Nixon McInnes: Social media goodness. Translated. Created. Delivered.
“ In a knowledge economy there are no such things as conscripts - there are only volunteers. The trouble is we have trained our managers to manage conscripts - Peter Drucker
The Obvious?: My favourite Drucker quote …
“ The easiest way to have insiders is to have outsiders.
Seth’s Blog: Exclusion
“ The moral of the story: in the immortal words of William Goldman, nobody knows nothing.
blog.pmarca.com: Applied lessons in unpredictability, 2008 primary season edition
“ It’s such a sadness when you think you’ve seen a film in on your fucking telephone.
Antikewl Daily / David Lynch on the iPhone - The best place for stuff
“ We are the future…ish.
Paul Fabretti commenting on By Will McInnes: Calacanis on start ups and revenues - bubbles anyone?
“ Running a startup is NOT about revenue anymore—it’s about critical mass. It’s about scale. When you’re playing in the big leagues with unlimited access to capital you shouldn’t worry about revenue BEFORE you have critical mass.
The three business models that make Twitter a billion-dollar business in 12-24 months.
