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Apr 09 2012 ∞
theatlantic: The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph This graph below from Visual Economics, which shows the adoption rate of new technologies across the century, is one of my new favorites … Click it. Print it. Take your time with it. That’s a lot of linear data. One way to parse it is to ignore everything at the top and trace your eye along the 10% line: In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove, or had access to electricity or phones In 1915, <10% of families owned a car In 1930, <10% of families owned a refrigerator or clothes washer In 1945, <10% of families owned a clothes dryer or air-conditioning In 1960, <10% of families owned a dishwasher or color TV In 1975, <10% of families owned a microwave In 1990, <10% of families had a cell phone or access to the Internet Today, at least 90% of the country has a stove, electricity, car, fridge, clothes washer, air-conditioning, color TV, microwave, and cell phone. They make our lives better. They might even make us happier. But they are not enough. Read more. [Image: Visual Economics]

theatlantic:

The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph

This graph below from Visual Economics, which shows the adoption rate of new technologies across the century, is one of my new favorites … Click it. Print it. Take your time with it. That’s a lot of linear data. One way to parse it is to ignore everything at the top and trace your eye along the 10% line:

  • In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove, or had access to electricity or phones
  • In 1915, <10% of families owned a car
  • In 1930, <10% of families owned a refrigerator or clothes washer
  • In 1945, <10% of families owned a clothes dryer or air-conditioning
  • In 1960, <10% of families owned a dishwasher or color TV
  • In 1975, <10% of families owned a microwave
  • In 1990, <10% of families had a cell phone or access to the Internet

Today, at least 90% of the country has a stove, electricity, car, fridge, clothes washer, air-conditioning, color TV, microwave, and cell phone. They make our lives better. They might even make us happier. But they are not enough.

Read more. [Image: Visual Economics]

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Mar 19 2012 ∞

Burning Man inspired movie ad

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Mar 18 2012 ∞

Who wants to go bike riding this summer?

Okay I biked today and now want to go on ALL the bike rides.
I joined NYCC they have a ton of open/free rides per weekend.
Then here is the giant list of organized rides:
5/20 Media Fondo 65 mile ride to Bear Mountain
6/3 Bike and Boat to Shelter Island $25
6/4-6/5 Mohonk Mountain House Ride $576 (damn- looks nice though)
6/16 Ride to Montauk 70 Miles $92
7/22 Harlem Valley Rail Ride- horse farm & dairy farm $115
7/27-7/29 3 day Farm Ride w/ hot tubs $100
8/25 Round the Valley Lebanon PA $30
8/26 North Fork Century 72 or 100 miles $87
9/2 Golden Apple
9/22 Escape NY Hudson Highlands $35
9/23 Tour of the Hamptons
10/5-10/7 Seagull Century to Assateague

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Dec 06 2011 ∞

Information Arbitrage: Message to founders: Always ask for "the order"

informationarbitrage:

In Wall Street parlance, “the order” is the opportunity to do a transaction. You, the salesperson, are telling the customer in no uncertain terms that you want to do a deal given a particular set of parameters. It is part and parcel of the culture that you can (and should) educate, compare…

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Nov 27 2011 ∞

xkcd: Money Chart

So cool- could look at this for hours. Need to get the poster for the house.

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Nov 01 2011 ∞

The Life Cycle Of A Web Page On StumbleUpon [Infographic] @PSFK

That Stumbleupon is a traffic machine

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Oct 17 2011 ∞

Continuations: Occupy Wall Street: Some Foundational Thoughts

continuations:

So I was wrong when I wrote that Occupy Wall Street would at best help draw media attention to inequality. I had suggested that instead folks should spend their time building startups that disrupt existing institutions. It now seems that the Occupy Together movement has the potential to…

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Sep 12 2011 ∞

Strong Opinions @marksbirch: Why Startups Fail

marksbirch:

Losing the passion. It is as simple as that. All the other reasons about scaling too fast, bad mix of co-founders, running out of money, economic upheaval, etc. are either symptoms or accelerators of the eventual downfall. When the founders just do not have the excitement anymore,…

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Jul 21 2011 ∞
pheelmore: marsbot: foursquare has a brandbook And it’s super interesting to read. 

pheelmore:

marsbot:

foursquare has a brandbook

And it’s super interesting to read. 

(via pmoehring)

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Apr 24 2011 ∞
whitneymcn: Cripplebush? Awesome. It’s apparently been gone for more than 150 years, and was more than ten blocks away from our house in any case, but I think that when people ask me where we live I’m going to start answering “Cripplebush.” Possibly even “Cripplebush, yo.” nevver: The Quick and the Dead

whitneymcn:

Cripplebush? Awesome.

It’s apparently been gone for more than 150 years, and was more than ten blocks away from our house in any case, but I think that when people ask me where we live I’m going to start answering “Cripplebush.” Possibly even “Cripplebush, yo.”

nevver: The Quick and the Dead

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Cdixon Tumblog: Things startups do and don't need

Things startups do need

Sunny office

Windows that open

Democratically controlled music system

Two forms of internet access

Beer on fridays

EVDO cards

Video game system

Good coffee maker

Proximity to public transportation

Proximity to park

Heating that goes all night

Health care plans…

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Feb 14 2011 ∞

Gawker Media's Nick Denton dishes deliciously on all things web. Listen and learn! | The Fix | Daily Front Row

hmm now how to get to 10M uniques a month to interest agencies? Have a few ideas up our sleeves.

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“ Realize that a startup puts you on an emotional roller-coaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You will flip rapidly from a day in which you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over and over and over.
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Marc Andreessen

(via saadiq, mikehudack, spytap, sloaneberrent, frankgruber)

I’m on 5 day cycles right now. 

If you ever wanted a taste of what it’s like to be bipolar, I bet doing a startup is a good method.

(via caterpillarcowboy)

Yep.

(via evangotlib)

Agreed. My life for the past 20 years. Sure as hell beats an office job. 

(via john) (via mikehudack)

^ This

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Yeah heard that/

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Feb 13 2011 ∞

World Press Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

Man these are amazing pics. Makes my shoot from yesterday pale.

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Feb 09 2011 ∞
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I’ve been using the analogy of the factory farm vs. the farmer’s market. Content grown organically vs. large scale production.

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The NYT page is like walking into a library, while the HuffPo page is like walking through Times Square.
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Felix Salmon weighing in on the HuffPost-AOL merger deal in his piece, “Why the NYT will lose to HuffPo.”  

Fellow member ‘20’ member Anthony DeRosa says he’s not sure if he agrees.

My take: The driving force behind HuffPo’s success is the comments and feedback from readers, who send it along and add their own voices and thoughts on the topic. Although the Times site allows comments, it’s not as open or available.  Despite being run and named after an extremely rich female, HuffPo is the true populist news site —and the reason why, I agree with Salmon, it will topple the Old Gray Lady.  

-KH 

(via the20newyork)

I’m not sure I represent the majority of people since I never go to Huffington Post, despite the fact they’re one of the most frequently trafficked websites on the Internet.

I think the above comment by Felix is spot on, and is exactly why I avoid HuffPo like the plague. I work in Times Square and try to escape from it as quickly as possible. I do agree with Felix’s point that I don’t navigate around the NYT. I go there because I’m directed to single articles. I read the article and leave and wind up coming back many more times to read other single articles, but never seem to be led down a path from one story to another by the Times itself. 

But does the sensory overkill on HuffPo work? The numbers speak for themselves. They get a ton of traffic and they’re profitable. Peter Feld defended the fact that people slam HuffPo for having 3,000+ unpaid bloggers. According to what I’ve heard, the paid staff is somewhere around 60 people.

Peter does make a solid point that we here on Tumblr are very much like that staff of 3,000 unpaid bloggers. When’s the last time Tumblr sent you a check for the billions of pageviews they received last month?

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(Source: nbcnewyork, via soupsoup)

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