November 2011
1 post
October 2011
2 posts
Epicurely: The Future of Food: Insects or Mutant... →
epicurely:
Most of you probably know about chocolate-covered ants or have watched an episode or two of Bizarre Foods where people from far-off lands consume exotic and strange things… but have YOU ever munched on a crispy critter? If not, there’s no time like the present! There must…
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs, Commencement address, Stanford University, June 12, 2005 (via courtbean)
September 2011
1 post
8 tags
Epicurely: connecting people through food →
Awesome inaugural blog post by my co-founder Santiago @SirTeno capturing the essence of our over-arching mission at Epicurely.
Rock on!
Food touches all of us
Wherever I happen to be, I’ve found that people are genuinely happy to share their food traditions and customs. People have emotional connections with food that run deep. These connections are part of who we are. They are part of our...
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
6 posts
“Strong personalities distort the information field around them.”
– David Brooks (via underpaidgenius)
Daily Patricia: The Coming Digital Future The Next... →
patriciahandschiegel:
The next presidential candidate is going to face something none other has previously:
A new world connected by a single platform (the internet), which is now in position as the world’s dominant information delivery and communications infrastructure.
Every country has had print media, telephone…
PayPal Attempts Its Own "Bitcoin RoadTrip" →
bitcoin:
PayPal president Scott Thompson is excited over the future profits PayPal will earn when its customers embrace further the use of PayPal as a “digital currency”.
From his three week long sabbatical vacation in Cape Cod the PayPal executive describes his own attempt to switch from using a wallet and describes the company’s digital currency employee challenge.
“Five employees will try...
October 2010
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August 2010
1 post
“Colleges are focused on teaching kids content, not on teaching them skills, and...”
– Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.: The Failure of American Higher Education
Thoughts?
(via world-shaker; infoneer-pulse)
I think this is a broad generalization, but not without truth. I was fortunate in many of my undergraduate classes and most of my graduate public policy classes to be taught how...
January 2010
1 post
October 2009
3 posts
“i want to get a twitter feed directly to my balls… so every time i get a...”
– From a Skype message by Nathaniel Green.
August 2009
1 post
3 tags
July 2009
1 post
“Another outcome of the social nervous system is that we see the shift away from...”
– The Rise of the Social Nervous System (via girk)
March 2009
4 posts
“Learning seems to occur when kids have to figure things out for themselves (or...”
– great post on education by my partner Albert (link below). My dad was a college professor and he would always make his students start class by “taking boards” and teaching each other. the greatest way to learn is by teaching.
Thinking about Education and Learning - Continuations
(via...
10 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die
Couldn’t agree more with Andrew Baron’s eloquent blog post about the inevitable demise of the traditional studio.
“My number one takeaway, a perception I did not have before, is that the studios are probably not going to make it. I always assumed and have always said that I believe the studios will make it through the transition on top but now I’m not so sure.”...
January 2009
1 post
Neglect
I’ve neglected my Tumblr account lately, but am excited by all the awesome improvements in V5…
September 2008
1 post
July 2008
2 posts
fred-wilson:
Gamma Ray - Beck - Modern Guilt
...
BrainSpeed is ready to rock baby!!!
June 2008
7 posts
Don't laugh at us
staff:
Yes, it’s totally silly that one year after launching Tumblr, we’re moving the official Tumblr blog off of Wordpress because it was too much work to update.
We want to spotlight all of the neat stuff happening on Tumblr. So today we’re announcing the official Tumblr tumblelog: staff.tumblr.com
There’s a lot we want to do here. In addition to showing off the new features we’re...
“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
– One of my favorite quotes…
ass to mouth—great track, great name!!
April 2008
2 posts
The best site to learn languages on the web? →
Welcome to the Social Learning Revolution! So far, it’s only the Social “English” Learning Revolution, but more soon…
February 2008
7 posts
Sometimes dumber is smarter
I was making fun of my colleague, Dominiek, about waiting until his technology fucking worked until he started soliciting Digg’s about it, but he made a good point, which is… less is more, or dumber is smarter, or release early or release often.
In other words, quick feedback loops and seeking correction from your peers and environment is a more efficient way of creating something...
Twitter bots, agents, and beyond
So my friend Dominiek has created a simple twitter agent called Observatory that tracks keywords across the blogosphere (well, a finite, but growing number of blog feeds) and sends you a tweet if/when that keyword is referenced. Pretty cool shit, huh?
So without further ado, let’s see if this actually works. I am tracking the keyword iKnow! Why iKnow!? Well, I’m a loser, and I spend...
wonders whether there is an advantage to using #FOAF in addition to the #XFN #microformat…
is going to try to leave the office soon!
is updating his status from #Plaxo using the #Pulse status update. Pretty cool stuff. We are going to try to do something similar on #iKnow!
hasn’t been twittering much in the last 24 hrs… it’s time to go to bed… I will dream of the open #social+graph and the future of the web
is on his way to the #iKnow! User’s Party in #Shibuya. You gotta love those #iKnow! users!
January 2008
152 posts
is heading home. Go #Hoyas! Another game, another win. #Georgetown
is tired, yet energized after day 4 at the gym. Will #Tipness become a staple in my “new” life?
is at the office. Time to work on #iKnow!
so it looks like #McCain is “unofficially’ the front runner for the Republican nomination.
so it looks like #McCain is “unofficially’ the front runner for the Republican nomination.
just returned from the gym - that’s three days in a row at #Tipness!