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  • Interesting Tidbits for January 17th

    Things worth reading for January 17th: Brands Create Media Outlets Online, Bypassing Magazines – NYTimes.com – “In the not-so-distant past, a luxury brand like Richemont, the Swiss company that owns Piaget, Dunhill and Montblanc, would have killed for even the slightest attention from Jeremy Langmead, the editor of British Esquire. “Now, he works for them,…

  • Can anybody help me to identify the source of this Schopenhauer quote?

    Hi there! At Le Web last month Alexander Tamas of DST International mentioned this famous quotation by Schopenhauer, but while I can find the full quotation (see below) easily enough I can’t manage to place it in Schopenhauer’s ouvre. Can anybody answer this one? “Authors can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The…

  • Interesting Tidbits for January 12th

    Things worth reading for January 11th through January 12th: Comics to capital markets, – VERY interesting guest post by investment banker Knolla on how he learns and tracks the markets. Some of his insight sources will surprise you: ““the ‘shared worlds’ of Marvel, DC, Valiant & Image comic books as well as the Dragonlance &…

  • Interesting Tidbits for January 10th

    Things worth reading for January 8th through January 10th: 10 Rules for modern collaboration | Creativity_Unbound – Surfaced by Nancy Duarte on Twitter… a useful article for any business where innovation is key. The Year Ahead in Media: Digital or Die – WSJ.com – VERY useful set of trends-spotted… Guest Blog: Glia: The new frontier…

  • Interesting Tidbits for January 7th

    Things worth reading for January 4th through January 7th: Amazon Must Fast-Forward Video Plans – WSJ.com – “How important is it for Amazon to remain strong in video? After all, it now sells everything from refrigerators to paper towels as well as books. Media accounted for only 45% of net sales for the first nine…

  • Interesting Tidbits for January 4th

    Things worth reading for January 4th: How Aha! Really Happens – Fascinating article and well worth the time it takes to read. If you’re accustomed to talking left brain vs. right brain, it’s time to rethink that dichotomy: “Over the past decade, neuroscientists have come a long way in figuring out how ideas form in…

  • Interesting Tidbits for January 3rd

    Things worth reading for January 3rd: Ad Execs Gaze Into 2011 Crystal Ball – WSJ.com – Another round of predictions… Google Digital Newsstand Aims to Muscle In on Apple – WSJ.com – I’d love to get Doug Weaver’s take on this.  “Google Inc. and Apple Inc. have stepped up their battle to win over publishers,…

  • Interesting Tidbits New Year’s Day Edition!

    Things worth reading for December 31st through January 1st: Flipboard’s Mike McCue: Web format has ‘contaminated’ online journalism | Technology | Los Angeles Times – “It’s generally agreed that the Web isn’t a very good place to read. With constantly changing, amorphous formatting and an invariably ad-choked feel, the Web has never been able to…

  • Interesting Tidbits for December 31st

    Things worth reading for December 31st: Google destroys its brand difference :: CultureBy – Grant McCracken – Grant’s ability to put his finger directly onto a problem consistently impresses me. Argentina’s Dancing with the Stars Is Pretty Much Straight Up Porn – To say this is “NSFW” is to make the understatement of the century……

  • Interesting Tidbits for December 30th

    Things worth reading for December 30th: MapQuest, Yelp and Other Websites Ally Against Google to Sell Local-Business Ads – WSJ.com – “A band of Internet rivals is joining together in hopes of jump-starting sales of online ads to local businesses, and of defending their turf in the emerging local market from Google Inc. “Using technology…