mikehudack: nickdouglas: neighborhoodr-eastvillage: nycthe: Is this what Fred Wilson had in mind with his large financial investment in Zynga? “Hey, I’ve got a great idea. Let’s advertise our product by littering all over the public’s property in Manhattan. But, there’s a catch…the litter will have our name on it! Better yet, glue that shit down, so it can not be removed. Permanent litter with our name on it=permanent advertising!” Here’s what I think of that idea. I’d like it if you cleaned it up. And I’m not the only one. Fellow residents of New York City are not pleased. Please help keep your city clean. Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute. This really should get cleaned up soon. As a fellow activist likes to say, this won’t end. Hey Fred, the company you’re funding looks ugly on my neighborhood.

mikehudack:

nickdouglas:

neighborhoodr-eastvillage:

nycthe:

Is this what Fred Wilson had in mind with his large financial investment in Zynga?

“Hey, I’ve got a great idea. Let’s advertise our product by littering all over the public’s property in Manhattan. But, there’s a catch…the litter will have our name on it! Better yet, glue that shit down, so it can not be removed. Permanent litter with our name on it=permanent advertising!”

Here’s what I think of that idea. I’d like it if you cleaned it up. And I’m not the only one. Fellow residents of New York City are not pleased.

Please help keep your city clean. Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute.

This really should get cleaned up soon. As a fellow activist likes to say, this won’t end.

Hey Fred, the company you’re funding looks ugly on my neighborhood.

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If your quarrel with Places is that it will make it more difficult to have an affair, you probably won't win much sympathy. But you don't have to be a cheating scoundrel to worry about the repercussions from Facebook Places. We all have to tell little lies every so often.

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Remember this day. Today was the day you read that non-human objects, internet connected devices like digital picture frames, web-connected GPS devices and broadband TVs, came online with AT&T and Verizon in greater numbers last quarter than new human subscribers did.

In the race to the mobile internet, the machines have quickened their pace beyond what we humans have, at least in the US.

Objects Outpace New Human Subscribers to AT&T, Verizon

(hate the article, btw)

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Excerpt of the Day

mikehudack:

savingpaper:

It comes from a must-read story in The New York Times about Terry Jones, a Florida pastor who will “memorialize” September 11 this year by burning copies of the Qur’an (a book he’s never read but is confident it’s “full of lies”):

For local Muslims like Saeed Khan, who came here in the 1970s to study for a Ph.D. in biology at the University of Florida, the collective rejection of Mr. Jones represents the America they want to believe in. In an interview at an Islamic center that used to be a Brown Derby restaurant, Dr. Khan said that “Mr. Jones is hijacking Christianity” just as “Al Qaeda hijacked Islam.”

What saddens him most, he said, is the lasting effect on Muslim youth. He now has three grandchildren under age 3 growing up in Gainesville, and he shook his head at the story of a friend’s daughter who woke up in the middle of the night and asked her mother, “Why don’t they like us?”

Still, like many others, he rejected the moment’s swirl of anger. Even if Muslims outside the United States respond to the planned Qur’an burning with protests, or worse, Mr. Khan said he would spend his Sept. 11 doing the same thing he did last year. He will be downtown, a few miles from Mr. Jones, feeding the homeless.

slavin:

PINA BAUSCH - The Man I love (Gershwin) 

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MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS. SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON
Advertisement placed in London newspapers for Shackleton’s trip to Antarctica, 1914 (geographysucks) (via naveen, invisiblestories)
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I Am A Founder

jennydeluxe:

thingsthatscarelaurenleto:

not a foundress.

That is all I will say about that.

Heart this HARD.

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http://naveen.tumblr.com/post/1004500448/theeconomist-bankruptcies-are-back-on-the

naveen:

theeconomist:

Bankruptcies are back on the rise in America

reminds me a bit of shirky’s daycare latecomer experiment

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dherman:

RT @umairh: Chinese shoe counterfeiter on 20th century marketing: “the shoes are original. It’s just the brands that are fake”. Perfectl …

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slavin: In a room of 120 strangers in San Diego at New Year’s, it was an awkward moment: everyone had to tell the story of their first Celebrity Crush. I told mine. Mine was the story of sitting with my father who was reading the New York Times. I asked him for the scissors, to cut out Ulrike Meinhof’s picture. I carried this picture with me until it fell apart. I was five. It’s impossible that I knew who Meinhof was, or her role in Munich 72, or even that Munich had happened. At five years old, It’s improbable that I thought anything had happened at all. But she was a neat looking lady, and her picture was different than all the other faces in the newspaper. Since 1975, my feelings about Meinhof have become logarithmically complex. They that say, they say it was brain surgery that changed her to a terrorist. That it was the surgeon’s knife what made her dangerous. But in San Diego for the New Year, I remembered her again in that first role in my life, as that First Celebrity Crush. At the New Year, I realized that of all the lessons of the Baader-Meinhof gang, the most personal one is that no one really chooses. No one chooses who or what captivates them. Would that we could, and frightened that we can’t. — Photo reblogged from plsj: “Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.” - Ulrike Meinhof (via unburyingthelead) View high resolution

slavin:

In a room of 120 strangers in San Diego at New Year’s, it was an awkward moment: everyone had to tell the story of their first Celebrity Crush.

I told mine. Mine was the story of sitting with my father who was reading the New York Times. I asked him for the scissors, to cut out Ulrike Meinhof’s picture. I carried this picture with me until it fell apart. I was five.

It’s impossible that I knew who Meinhof was, or her role in Munich 72, or even that Munich had happened. At five years old, It’s improbable that I thought anything had happened at all. But she was a neat looking lady, and her picture was different than all the other faces in the newspaper.

Since 1975, my feelings about Meinhof have become logarithmically complex. They that say, they say it was brain surgery that changed her to a terrorist. That it was the surgeon’s knife what made her dangerous.

But in San Diego for the New Year, I remembered her again in that first role in my life, as that First Celebrity Crush.

At the New Year, I realized that of all the lessons of the Baader-Meinhof gang, the most personal one is that no one really chooses. No one chooses who or what captivates them. Would that we could, and frightened that we can’t.

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Photo reblogged from plsj:

“Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”

- Ulrike Meinhof

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