May 2009
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Shhhh. Newspaper publishers are quietly holding a... →
Executive recruiters likely do not swarm the industry for talent; certainly not in the same way they’ve gone after leaders at companies such as General Electric, Wells Fargo Bank or Microsoft over the years. Indeed, the June issue of Fast Company, a very sharp tech and business publication, features a cover story on “The 100 Most Creative People in Business.”
Perhaps I missed...
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A Crisis Of Craft, By Steven Van Zandt →
toddschwartz:
Kind of rambling and a bit long but worth the read. He is Stevie Van Zandt afterall. Thank you John Allspaw…
“We had a purpose. We had a specific goal, an intention, a mandate. We made you dance or we did not work – we did not get paid – we were fired – we were homeless. That requires a different energy. It is a working class energy. Not an artistic intellectual waiting around...
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Clinging to a dead biz model for dear life →
Journalism doesn’t need newspapers to exist. It needs distribution outlets. It is media agnostic. And in today’s world, the last thing we lack are distribution outlets.
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Strategy isn’t about spreadsheets - and certainly not about short-run...
– Umair Haque, How Not to Manage Innovation
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Great Comment on an Important Topic
Private data sits stuffed inside a data center or company waiting for the owner to make sense of it, but public data is open for anyone to make sense from (and ultimately, profit from); the owner becomes a custodian, a massively different relationship.
Originally posted as a comment by Taylor Davidson on A VC using Disqus.
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90 people get the swine flu and everybody wants to...
(via jessicachu)