June 2008
76 posts
“I.B.M. uses a Facebook-like site called Beehive and a personalized internal...”
– Preoccupations - I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip - NYTimes.com (via datainsightsideas)
Internal social media is the next step toward increasing organizational efficiency.
“Participation is the Killer App”
– Participation is the Killer App | innovation Creators (via suwaowalog)
WatchYes, in fact this is a Chuck-E-Cheese Animatronic animal band playing Love in This Club.
Secrets about the internet
marco:
The most common word in search queries is “photos”. Number two? “Fotos.” The associated words indicate that people are usually searching for pictures of naked women and cars.
Blog readers don’t click on ads. Most ads are clicked by confused, lost, nontechnical people who arrived from a Google results page and think that the ad will take them to what they were really looking for. (This is...
Hillary Clinton makes an awkward fundraising pitch →
squashed:
The Clinton campaign is about $20 million in debt. She’s looking for help retiring some of that debt. This is going to be a bit of an awkward sell, seeing as about half of that debt is money she loaned her campaign. It’s a bit of an awkward argument to try to convince people to give money to those who are better off than they are.
It’s like the opposite of charity.
…or she...
MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
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George Will talks about Obama and "Paternalistic... →
squashed:
I seriously think even George Will is thinking about voting for Obama.
The general idea the article discusses is that you can change behaviors by changing defaults. If we want to have organ donors, we could pass a law that says everybody has to be an organ donor—but that’s a bit worrisome for a number of reasons. Currently we have an opt-in system, which means that people who don’t...
I can't believe it took me this long to remember...
Legal Theory Lexicon: Public and Private Goods →
# Public goods have two characteristics—nonrivalrousness and nonexcludability. For example, consumption of national defense is nonrivalrous (my being protected by the U.S. armed forces doesn’t diminish your protection). National defense is a nonexcludable good: the Army cannot say to Mexico, “Solum hasn’t paid his national defense bill, “Go ahead and attack...
Greasemoney Script: Post to Tumblr from Google... →
How did I not find this earlier? Workflow++
Use a Machete and Shower Less: Five ‘Manly’ Ways... →
I’m pretty sure this is really just an endorsement of “Lumberjack” as a valid career choice on Myers-Briggs exams.
George State Park Service issues press release... →
Sometimes, I think press releases just state the obvious. This is not one of those cases.
(via Reddit)
Apple's iPhone marketing plan →
thx rana
WatchOn the first episode of The Dana Carvey Show, Dana made a bold prediction about Pat Buchanan. Now with his persistent presence on MSNBC and Air America Radio, it seems wierdly correct.
Yes, Tumblr is blocked in China
squashed:
In all honesty, I was hoping it was just me. Then I’d know I’d made it.
Instead, David and the rest of the Tumblr crew know they’ve made it.
WatchJohn Mccain on SNL 2002 in a Lifetime TV Movie parody.
John McCain being all super creepy. And Amy Polhert looks just like his wife/trollop
Update: Hulu’s got the whole thing.
WatchThe Robert Downey Jr. Of Cookies
“Where the fuck is webvan when i need it? I want coffee in 30 mins or less.”
– Rana June Sobhany
Violent Femmes - Crazy
So Gnarles Barkley covered...
A truly exceptional thing.
fred-wilson:
supernice:
Tim Russert’s son, Luke, asked Barack Obama and John McCain to sit next to one another at his father’s funeral Wednesday. And they did. From the NYT -
“Then, in remarks from the pulpit, he exhorted them and other politicians to “engage in spirited debate but disavow the low tactics that distract Americans from the most important issues facing our country.” At the end...
Colorado Lottery offers scratch-'n'-sniff games →
Aaah - the smell of dispair.
WatchEven though the Obama parody Kia commercial has been taken off youtube, that won’t stop the Hulu embed from The Daily Show.
George Bush Does Kia Commercial →
Found this while looking for the Obama Kia commercial. I guess Jon Stewart was right about usually needing to be president first before having your likeness used to sell cars.
“McCain’s most obvious comparables, Bob Dole and Dick Cheney, offer...”
– Candidate Health Report: John McCain
The fantastic FiveThirtyEight.com, run by a sports statistician at Baseball Prospectus, provides a look into McCain’s health by by a player health analyst.
Terms I’d love to see enter the lexicon as a result of this campaign: FiveThirtyEight Effect...
WatchJohn McGloclan reveals that Barack Obama is not our first black president
Pablum - Pure Unadulterated Pablum →
Some backstory: Last summer a buddy of mine, Alex “Rach” Racheotes was chosen as a fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Relations, a liberal think tank focused on Central and South America, in the basement of the same building as Revolution Health. Rach spent the entire summer fighting with the head of the organization, Larry Birns, an old-guard leftist who despised my buddy for...
John McCain Strategy Briefing →
JMac uses Keynote?! What would FSJ say?