Category Archives: Responding

Mediation on Religion: Or How to Culture Jam Judaism on the Internet

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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Critiques In Tech

Image by qthomasbower via Flickr In effort to catch up on posts I am thinking about (I still need to finish Techstars boulder, write up about the last NYTech Meetup which I will have to watch post the event, and read up on all the crazy news about ATT&T and mobile phones…and school), I thought I [...]
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CrowdSourcing Starting up, questions, Part 1

To Startup. And How To find a Partner. And Under What Circumstances. So there is this post going on at AVC.com. Aka Fred’s Place. There are enough ideas floating around in my head that it may or may not be logical to just go and found a startup. Here are the Logistical questions. [...]
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WSJ on Web Money, scary thoughts.

So I was sent this link yesterday because of my love of Real Time Economics http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/09/the-currency-revolution/ It’s worth a read and discussion.  There discuss two different virtual currencies.  Two are mentioned- Serious, and Ven.
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Walled Garden Social Networks

So some people out there think that totally open social networks are absolute brilliant and wonderful.  I’m inclined to agree with them that they are brilliant and wonderful for certain purposes. Walled Gardens are equally useful for the right people at the right time.  Certain parts of life have not are are always going to be [...]
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From Vladimir’s Blog

Image by ulterior epicure via Flickr So this was a comment I posted on Vladimir’s, a very nice Young Man’s blog, about the fragmentation of the food industry. I was thinking about it recently anyway because right before my younger and only Brother had gone to college*, my only living grandparent had taken us out [...]
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It appears that Business Schools need a Liberal Arts Curriculum

Image via Wikipedia So this week Fred Wilson’s a post went up about which books entrepreneurs should read.  The comments are now being turned into a wiki. The original post was in response the following question “What should a budding Entrepreneur Read?” by a regular reader, which inspired the writing of post.  A well thought idea, if [...]
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Someone asked me about Second Life

Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual game [...]
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Aggregators, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly

Image by Dead Air via Flickr Another post that is imperative to write about. *sigh* I hate feeling like I can’t keep a good idea a secret.  I feel bad that this company didn’t realize a good idea in their own product when it was staring them in the face. So when I was at #NYTM, I [...]
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The New New Business of News

Image by Getty Images via Daylife While in some previous posts, there have been discussions of the theoretical maximum viewership of news-content, as well as the history of Newspaper, it is now time to discuss what does all of this mean in a practical sense. This is the third major age of newspapers, but not exclusively newspapers, [...]
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