January 2011
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December 2010
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Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
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Continuations: Email Overload (Apology) →
continuations: I have sadly reached a point, where two things are happening with email despite my best efforts. First, I often write very short answers to emails. These answers could easily be perceived as rude even though that is not the intention. I remember that in the past it used to bug me a bit getting… Ugh, I’m in the same boat. Gmail’s Priority Inbox has helped some....
Dec 28th
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What I think happened at Yahoo re: Delicious.com
Yahoo: Right fuck it, we're shutting down delicious.com
Internet: What the hell? There's like a bazillion of us here using it, hadn't you noticed? Don't you see an opportunity there?
Yahoo: Well we uh...
Internet: A massive community of users, tagging links, sharing finds, doing your work for you for free and you're shutting it down?
Yahoo: (.....shit... maybe maybe we can make some money from this) Uh, shutting it down? Who said we're shutting it down? No no, we're SELLING it. So uh which one of you lucky people wants to buy this fantastic service?
Dec 28th
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Dec 22nd
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
The Beatles (83) The Band (53) Billy Bragg (47) Bill Laswell (18) The Beach Boys (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 21st
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Dec 17th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
Billy Bragg (13) Bettye LaVette (13) Laura Veirs (11) Suzanne Vega (10) Jónsi (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 15th
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“The Internet we know today exists only because, until now, there have been no...”
– Internet Access Should Be Application-Agnostic - Union Square Ventures (via garychou)
Dec 15th
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Dec 12th
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Former Newsweek staffer-turned barista on life...
newsweek: Big kudos to Catharine Skipp for this poignant piece in Friday’s Miami Herald—a candid (and wonderfully written) story of life in a changing industry. We had the pleasure of working with Catharine at Newsweek; the University of Miami is lucky to have her.
Dec 11th
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“There’s some very disturbing discourse now about how everything government does...”
– Michele Simon  (Michele’s site is here (link).
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
The National (26) Sade (12) Surfer Blood (10) Billy Bragg (7) Broken Bells (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 7th
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Dec 2nd
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-28) →
Neil Young (23) The Antlers (7) Ben Kweller (4) Broken Bells (3) April Smith and The Great Picture Show (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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