Today’s furor over Google’s Fast Flip newsreader made me curious: how have industries dealt with massive paradigm changes in the past?Straight from the horses mouth, here’s a 1917 New York Times article about how the saddlery and...
Topics: fast flip, google, saddlery, Uncategorized

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Search Twitter for “textbooks” and half the tweets you’ll see (particularly around the start of a term) are outright vitriol about how overpriced textbooks are.I spent 220 on 3 textbooks today. Feeling nauseous about spending $500 on...
Topics: Personal, Site News, Site Profiles, textbooks

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There’s not much description required here: the concept is simple, and executed elegantly. We Are Hunted is a great site for a Friday - a fun and fresh way to explore new music, filtered by Twitter. You can listen to everything, and follow purchase.
Topics: music, twitter, Uncategorized

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The CNN has a typically dewey-eyed article today about Ning - “the Future of Social Networking.” I just want to point out very quickly (short on time today) that the impressive-looking stats that CNN quotes effectively paint Ning as a ghost...
Topics: cnn, network, ning, Random Musings, social, Uncategorized

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Over the years that I’ve intermittently poured energy into this blog, I’ve commented on or reviewed a fair number of websites. Every once in a while, I like to check-up on some of them - to see if my predictions of doom or success were spot...
Topics: cluztr, me.dium, nolan, oneriot, persai, pressflip, Random Musings, teqlo

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