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Monthly Archives: August 2006
What is the future of the newspaper industry? The music industry!
The same economic drivers that are disrupting the newspaper industry, indeed any industry built on the distribution and packaging of creative acts that can be transmitted digitally, on the Internet, are the same. I don’t think it’s all that different … Continue reading
Sarcasmo sees Mr. Code Monkey
Sarcasmo’s Corner: Monday morning madness. Noted because damn I love this song. If I had a dime for everytime I’ve been called a code monkey – I’d be ummmm….. well I’d have enough for a car at least!
Venn diagrams that lead to wisdom?
If not wisdom, then humor
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Three weeks ago I asked Yahoo! Answers how to shrink gun violence in Philadelphia
Did I get a decent answer? Judge for yourself. It was, understandably a question with many dimensions and having no easy answer whatsoever. That’s why I asked it. What I found fascinating however, was that some gave it a shot … Continue reading
Enter the dragon
The online world owes a great deal of debt to America’s Funniest Home Videos don’t it?
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David Armano: “you can only influence as many people as you have access to”
This graphic is one a great many clarifying ones you’ll find on David Armano’s Logic+Emotion. His “Visualizing the Social Network” is on my wall at work to trigger conversation. Some are going to look at this graphic and see a … Continue reading
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Wayne’s World – Seriously
Finding the old Wayne’s World trailer on YouTube was sublime. Don’t you think the story line – new medium enables amature to reach many, the amature gets lured by money and power the big corps offer, disillusion follows, and wisdom … Continue reading
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Latest Philly Future Featured Blog
We’re going to try and encourage something new in our community when we feature a blog on Philly Future – to encourage the community to link to, comment on, and post about it. This is an attempt at expanding the … Continue reading
The music industry targets guitar tablature sites for shutdown
NYTimes: Now the Music Industry Wants Guitarists to Stop Sharing: The Internet put the music industry and many of its listeners at odds thanks to the popularity of services like Napster and Grokster. Now the industry is squaring off against … Continue reading
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President Bush: Iraq had ‘nothing’ to do with 9/11
Watch this video. Bush really lets it slip. We took resources away from the Afghanistan effort, an effort that every American across the country supported, that would have resulted in Osama’s head on a stick, to pursue a theory in … Continue reading
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