September 2011
“Meanwhile, there’s another interesting tidbit buried in this whole flap....”
– CCDC, the Central Subway, and media manipulation (?) | San Francisco Bay Guardian
Right now this very scene is being repeated in...
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: You guys are on Macs now?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Yeah, we're slowly switching over. But we still use PowerPoint.
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: Well, we brought our portion of the deck in PDF, think we can import that?
BARISTA: TRIPLE GRANDE NON-FAT LATTE FOR BILL? BILL?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: Yeah, not sure how to do that. Do you have a thumb drive?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Sure, let me check my bag
BLUE BLAZER GUY 3: Oh, hey guys. How's it going.
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Good. Wait, should we just present the deck off your laptop?
BARISTA: VENTI PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE FOR ANNA? ANNA? AND A GRANDE COFFEE FRAPPUCINO FOR MARIO? MARIO?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: Sure, I mean I guess we could do that. Are you driving or am I driving?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 3: The deck?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Yeah, the deck.
BLUE BLAZER GUY 3: Whatever, I'm fine. Let's use my machine.
BARISTA: GRANDE NON-FAT DECAF VANILLA ICED LATTE FOR ELIZABETH?
“Do we really want Facebook citizenship to become a requirement for accessing...”
– Introducing Facebook Nation « Social Media Collective
“the Spotify we knew last week is a fundamentally different business from the one...”
– Unlike: Why Facebook Integration Is Actually Antisocial
1 tag
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Bombay Bicycle Club (12)
Cat Stevens (8)
America (2)
N.W.A (1)
Concrete Blonde (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Would The Web Have Reacted Differently to the...
Without getting too much into the backstory, AOL/TechCrunch is in disarray. Site founder Mike Arrington was forced out, and then yesterday one of the site’s writers flamed out in spectacular fashion, posting a public resignation letter on the site itself. It led to an interesting back and forth on Twitter about gender, and whether or not Carr would have been received differently were he a...
“I talk to a lot of entrepreneurs in their 20s who are knowledgeable about the...”
– Caterina.net
Everything is different now. Everything is fucked.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4) →
Bon Iver (19)
Robert Schumann (18)
Yellow Ostrich (13)
Hans-Peter Westermann (12)
Washed Out (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“It’s the end of the summer. And in Silicon Valley, it’s the end of...”
– The End of Silicon Valley
I really liked writing this story.
“Being in Silicon Valley is like playing for the Yankees. You get knocked around...”
– Andrew Mason’s Silicon Valley Problem: He’s Not Here | TechCrunch