Category Archives: Ideas

Over-Advertisement makes me Want You!

By Shana | Published: February 26, 2010
Image by Christian Bachellier via Flickr Actually it makes me want nothing. I’m living in the age of over-advertisement.  It’s everywhere, and often misplaced.  My to be children, by the time they are 6, are more likely to know the cartoon character Ronald McDonald that to recongize the face of their current President.  And I’m not sure [...]
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On Venture Capital, Aliya, And Israel

By Shana | Published: February 12, 2010
Image via Wikipedia One note about this post: Disqus allows me to keep a heavy eye on you all.  I’m not out to have a politics here or politics there talk.  This is not a YAY ISREAL or a BOOO ISRAEL post.  My politics are my politics and they are shaped by my experiences and my [...]
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The AVC People List

By Shana | Published: January 31, 2010
Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I’m not sure what to say right now.  Though the AVC People list is here. (now you can’t complain, it is at the top of the post.) Originally I had started this list many moons ago because Fred Wilson told me that I should follow the people on AVC.com in order to [...]
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Freedom and Google

By Shana | Published: January 15, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Normally I avoid the subject of freedom at all costs. But the Google/China standoff has made it really important to say something, because I’m watching this in more bated breath than Haiti. Most people, upon meeting me, don’t realize that I burn with certain questions, one of them being “What does it mean to be [...]
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Mediation on Religion: Or How to Culture Jam Judaism on the Internet

By Shana | Published: December 3, 2009
To the people who have educated me and supported me along the way: Thanks. One other note: I have a lot of social data on this subject.  I did a whole 10 page research paper on a related parts of this Judaism, Culture Jamming, and how it affected funding decisions, with footnotes, in 2007.  Apparently if [...]
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The Paper!

By Shana | Published: November 26, 2009
Paper is below.  trust me, you want it this way.  If you feel like the thesis is weak, so do I.  I also know that I went way over the 5 page limit double spaced…
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The pre paper post

By Shana | Published: November 26, 2009
Originally it came with whole lots of warnings.  No I’m not happy with it.  It’s hard to write when you are hiding yourself, and have a page limit for a difficult question.  I really wanted a lot of time to explain myself (such a me thing).  I feel like I really do need to write [...]
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Something is disturbing me

By Shana | Published: November 23, 2009
I wish I knew how to read the markets well.  Something is disturbing me.  The kind of thing you can’t read but you feel in your gut. There is too much money sloshing around because of TARP. And we are starting to see the first signs of consumer spending. The money has to go somewhere, and [...]
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Thank you, and what you learn in Preschool

By Shana | Published: November 23, 2009
Some of you may have seen this tweet last night: please answer back: I was the victim of a purse snatching on campus I just want to see who is out there to make me feel less alone If you were around and responded, thank you.
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At the end of the line

By Shana | Published: November 15, 2009
So, I’m at a total loss. How do I organize this mess into a presentable artwork for a gallery/bacherlor’s crit? For those who missed the story: I made a profile on Facebook for part of my Bachelors (ok that’s uhh boring) It’s name is Art Dova. It’s login was dovafacebook @ gmail dot com and its password [...]
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