February 2009
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The Economics of Giving It Away →
“In a battered economy, free goods and services online are more attractive than ever. So how can the suppliers make a business model out of nothing?”
January 2009
28 posts
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“But somehow in the last century we decided our own lives were too important,...”
– Eliot Pattison, Prayer of the Dragon (via gregvassie)
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The end of solitude →
If boredom is the great emotion of the TV generation, loneliness is the great emotion of the Web generation. We lost the ability to be still, our capacity for idleness. They have lost the ability to be alone, their capacity for solitude.
(via Nicholas Carr)
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A meditation on hope: Sherwin Nuland on TED.com... →
Surgeon and writer Sherwin Nuland meditates on the idea of hope — the desire to become our better selves and make a better world. In a thoughtful 12 minutes, he explores the connection between “hope” and “change” — a fitting talk to end this week full of both.
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Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark... →
“If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.”
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M. Ward — ”Never Had Nobody Like You”
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Tom Friedman offers a perfect definition of... →
Tom Friedman, one of the nation’s leading propagandists for the Iraq War and a vigorous supporter of all of Israel’s wars, has a column [in Wednesday’s] The New York Times explaining and praising the Israeli attack on Gaza.
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Flat N All That →
“Matt Taibbi takes on porn-stached New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s greenish ways.”
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WatchModels are loud. by lonelysandwich (via merlin)
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Tim O'Reilly: Work on Stuff that Matters →
Our economy has many elements of a ponzi scheme. We borrow from other countries to finance our consumption, we borrow from our children by saddling them with debt and using up non-renewable resources.
It’s hard to see beyond the “small here” and the “short now,” especially if you live in a favored place and time…
That’s why a time like this, when the...
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Bon Iver — “Blood Bank”
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Justice after Bush: Prosecuting an outlaw... →
Americans may wish to avoid what is necessary. We may believe that concerns about presidential lawbreaking are naive. That all presidents commit crimes. We may pretend that George W. Bush and his senior officers could not have committed crimes significantly worse than those of their predecessors. We may fear what it would mean to acknowledge such crimes, much less to punish them. But avoiding this...
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In search of the God neuron →