November 2009
1 post
October 2009
2 posts
“Flirting is the gentle art of making someone feel attractive.”
Daily Overview for October 2, 2009 (Today)
Quickie
If you take a more impersonal point of view now, you’ll learn a lesson in maturity.
Overview
Your job is more demanding than usual right now but that’s not the worst thing in the world. In fact, if you play your cards right, you might end up with a promotion, raise or commendation
June 2009
1 post
Marketing →
May 2009
1 post
“Brands are the people that work on them.”
– via tim armstrong interview - ad age http://adage.com/brightcove/lineup.php?lineup=21520198001
April 2009
2 posts
“Winners make commitments, losers make promises.”
“There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly...”
– Logan Pearsall Smith
March 2009
1 post
That's a little too real.
So weird, I just started watching The Wire too. Hammered out first season earlier this week, and spent or wasted my weekend with season two. 8 episodes in a row today…
baxterp:
So…. my brother and I decided we no longer wanted to be the last two people to see The Wire and have been sitting here watching the first couple episodes. I just got on facebook for a second, only to see a status...
February 2009
21 posts
“Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”
– Good Will Hunting - Robin Williams
“Virtue and vice are not the same, even if they undergo the same torment.”
– Saint Augustine (via whokilled)
“The Brand Collective. It’s the new secret sauce.”
– Adam Hanft, Millions Downloaded vs. Billions Sold: Apple’s New Brand Collective Changes the McDonald’s Game — Huff Po, 2/18/09
Great piece from my friend Adam Hanft on the importance of open platforms, from a marketer’s perspective. I’m left dreaming of the possibilities of an open oatmeal...
Want Content? "Pick One"
rickyv:
A meeting with the super smart Avner Ronen of Boxee yesterday, combined with reading coverage of the Pirate Bay trial and the 30 Rock “McFlurrygate” has got me thinking on overdrive about the future of video content. In a conversation last night with my buddy Aaron, we came up with a simple rule called “Pick One.” While certainly not groundbreaking, it’s an easy way to think about the...
“In essence, the nation’s biggest employers of unskilled labor often leave...”
– America on $195 a Week | Mother Jones (via lebren)
Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 →
kenyatta:
“Hi, this is Mike from Yelp,” the voice would say. “You’ve had three hundred visitors to your site this month. You’ve had a really good response. But you have a few bad ones at the top. I could do something about those.”
This wasn’t your average sales pitch. At least, not the kind that John, an East Bay restaurateur, was used to. He was familiar with Yelp.com, the popular San...
Why being a hit on iTunes (and Hulu) doesn’t... →
fredseibert:
I must say I really do not understand the obsession about “real” TV over the internet. Who really gives a crap? Though it happened back in the day when cable TV was new too. I could care less as to whether network TV shows are ever profitable on the internet.
New mediums demand NEW brands, not recycled ones.
moth:
Good if obvious article regarding “Dollhouse” and the economics...
3 Boston Startups I Like
fredseibert:
robgo:
Over the past several months, I’ve met a number of people who are new to Boston or completing graduate school and are looking to join an exciting startup in the technology or media space. I’ve found that a couple companies keep coming up, and I thought I’d share 3 that I particularly like.
Because I know VC’s are horrible self-promoters (myself included), I am excluding...
ben franklin and pennies
a penny saved is a penny earned… when was the penny created?
Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur →
“In the past four years, I’ve learned that in addition to a zero basis for...”
– Ashish Gadnis - Entrepreneur Magazine
“Accept what you can’t change; change what you can. If you’re tired...”
– February 8, 2009
“Satisfaction leads to regression.”
– Alexandre Burrows - Vancouver Canucks
“There is no off position on the genius switch.”
– Blago on Letterman?
John Adams & Thomas Jefferson
Both deceased on July 4, 1826. Adams was 90, Jefferson 83. Exactly 50 years from the Declaration of Independence. Spooky!
“You’d be surprised of what people can do together, when nobody is looking...”
– Pat Quinn - Chicago Tonight
January 2009
55 posts
“Sometimes when people get what they want. They see how limitless their goals...”
– Mad Men
Year of the OX - Rooster
Rooster Overview
Get ready for an outstanding year. Aside from the Snake, the Rooster has the best prospects in the year of the Ox. This is the kind of year you have been waiting for, as everything seems to go your way. You have been diligently working towards some long term goals that finally come together this year. Your relations are felt at new levels, as you find a sense of satisfaction that...
Obama's Ambition
mokoyfman:
Barack Obama gave his first televison interview as president yesterday evening. And he did so to al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based satellite network that is one of the largest English-language TV outlets aimed at Arab audiences.
This is a first for an American president and a remarkable indication of Obama’s ambition. He is coming in fresh, looking to make an immediate positive impact in...
“Vanessa Wetherhold: [drunk] What’s it like… to be stupid?
Brooke:...”
– From the Movie - Smart People (I highly recommend)
“Don’t waste your youth on age.”
– Mad Men
“The reason you haven’t felt it is because it doesn’t exist. What you call love...”
– Don Draper (via lapanopticon) (via rachelhotchkiss)
Your weekly existential dilemma is brought to you...
tylercoates:
Here’s a rhetorical question: how does one figure out if romantic feelings are still at the surface of things because one misses the routine and comfort of companionship, or if those feelings are validated by the very fact that they are there? It’s rhetorical, obviously - I think it’s rhetorical for everyone - and it may be the kind of problem that is only solved through action rather...
“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in...”
– Markus Zusak (via thresca) (via onherway)
“Who’s more obnoxious? Sober Black People or Drunk White People?”
“Never show weakness… The only pain that matters, is the pain you inflict.”
– Jon Voight - Varsity Blues
WatchThere’s so much to love about this. The short dance sequence at te 3 min mark was killer.
“Women want to be thrown up against a wall but not... →
(via katiebakes)
“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at...”
– Tom Gates (via hiiamblair) (via tylercoates)
I LOVE TRUTH!
(via lebren)
“[redacted]’s dick is so small, it was in a deleted scene of honey i shrunk the...”
– Matt Jordan (via megwhyte)
The Night New York Avoided a Riot →
boutofcontext:
mandalay:
jingc: When Martin Luther King was assassinated, there were riots all over the country. People were worried that New York would be the same, or worse. However, the mayor at the time, John Lindsay, headed straight for Harlem:
Jimmy Breslin, the city’s leading columnist, wrote, “He looked straight at the people on the streets and he told them he was sick and he was sorry...
“Surviving, that will be our revenge.”
– Tuvia Bielski (as portrayed in the movie Defiance) (via whokilled)