January 2011
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“Inspiration and worth ethic; they ride right next to each other.”
– Jack White
Jan 1st
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Jan 1st
December 2010
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Dec 31st
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“The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason...”
– Albert Einstein
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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“Technology creates the problem of complexity, but also affords new materials and...”
– John Maeda - The Laws of Simplicity
Dec 28th
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“They don’t bother you, well they don’t bother me Engine too loud in the brand...”
– Jim Jones verse on Blakroc “What You Do To Me”
Dec 28th
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“With a telephone in the house comes a new companionship, new life, new...”
– American Farmer - 1904 (Found in Tim Wu’s book The Master Switch)
Dec 27th
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“In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered...”
– J. Paul Getty
Dec 26th
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You’ve Got to Have (150) Friends (via NYTimes) →
The critical component in social networking is the removal of time as a constraint. In the real world, according to research by myself and others, we devote 40 percent of our limited social time each week to the five most important people we know, who represent just 3 percent of our social world and a trivially small proportion of all the people alive today. Since the time invested in a...
Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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“The bourgeoise, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more...”
– Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
Dec 23rd
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Social-Information Society
If as Marx claimed, the “hand-mill” created feudal society and the “steam-mill” created capitalist society, then it should follow that the computer (data-mill) has created the social-information society. JNOMICS 
Dec 23rd
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“(The faithful) naturally resent any application of cold analysis to what for...”
– Joseph Schumpeter
Dec 23rd
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Social-Information Society
If as Marx claimed, the “hand-mill” created feudal society and the “steam-mill” created capitalist society, then it should follow that the computer (data-mill) has created the social-information society. JNOMICS 
Dec 23rd
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“(The faithful) naturally resent any application of cold analysis to what for...”
– Joseph Schumpeter
Dec 23rd
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“The bourgeoise, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more...”
– Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
Dec 23rd
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“Young people have insight. They have a flash here and a flash there. It is...”
– Robert Frost on wisdom, aging, and art. 
Dec 23rd
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“Step by step, he had tested his observation of places and people until his best...”
– Robert Lowell on the patient, methodical process of Robert Frost.
Dec 23rd
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So You Want a Revolution?
The Beatles are dead.  Youth culture no longer cares.  Their historic influence is not to be questioned, but their cultural influence is no longer in ascendence.  If you want a career to nowhere in music, keep writing songs, keep making records, keep playing guitar, drums,  bass.  If you want a career to somewhere, start coding, start programming, remixing, singing, visualizing, graphic...
Dec 23rd
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“This has been the “most productive post-election period we’ve had in decades…...”
– President Barack Obama - Press Conference December 22, 2010 It’s a remarkably unpopular thing to say, but I agree with the guy.  It’s not been perfect (politics precludes that possibility), but certainly productive.  JNOMICS
Dec 22nd
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George Condo @ The New Museum
(image via Vogue) This past year saw George Condo’s distinctive catalog of grotesque cartoon characters with their bug eyes and toothy grins thrust into the spotlight by way of a presentation at the Whitney Biennial and, more recently, a controversial album cover for Kanye West. But “George Condo: Mental States,” the first major conceptual survey of the artist’s work, which goes on display at...
Dec 22nd
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Nike x Print Media
A reinterpretation of identity, where one create their very own instead of dictation from the mass media. So what better way than to reform one’s own from shredded glossy printed matters? You will find this ironic twist in the latest Nike Sportswear offering, the Premium Print Pack from Women. Featuring actual recycled magazines, shredded and then reconstituted into 3 forms: Nike Flash Macro...
Dec 22nd
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“Whatever he most desires - whether it be opera, concert, or song, sporting news...”
– Alfred Goldsmith (director of research at RCA) - 1922 Does this utopic thinking remind us of anything? Listen up Tumblrs, the net neutrality laws that are being passed aren’t so neutral, and privacy concerns connected to Facebook, Google, and the Wikileaks are about to permanently alter the...
Dec 21st
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“On or about December 1910, human character changed.”
– Virginia Woolf, 1924  Found this remark of Mrs. Woolf’s attached to the beginning of Time Person of the Year profile for Mark Zuckerberg.
Dec 21st
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Diane Von Furstenberg and China: A Perfect Fit?...
(Photograph from NYT) With a video camera recording the session, Ms. Von Furstenberg and eight associates made preparations for a coming retrospective in Beijing, “Journey of a Dress.” It chronicles her life in fashion, beginning in the 1970s, when the simple wrap dress she designed created a sensation. “I woke up in January of this year,” she said, “and my New Year’s resolution was to...
Dec 19th
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“All knowledge and habit once acquired becomes as firmly rooted in ourselves as a...”
– Joseph Schumpeter
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
– Paul Klee
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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“It is an under-acknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and...”
– Tim Wu
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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A Brief Thought on the Incentive Structure of...
A problem of modern finance, the derivatives business, and hedge funds as they relate to the rejuvenation of the American economy is that these firms’ business models are not dependent on a robust, upwardly mobile, middle class.  Their reach is global and their profits are generated via complex, algorithmic, hedging/betting architectures that are dependent not on the strength of industry,...
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“A flat world would seem to imply simplicity. Yet, where the quantity of daily...”
– JNOMICS
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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?(S) = f(GAWKER/WIKILEAKS)
When does it become in our national security interest to begin structurally altering the Internet such that sensitive, personal, and government information is adequately protected? How do we create new policies, laws, and coded structures that better protect our constitutional rights while also ensuring that new measures do not violate any of them? Do we need to amend the rights we are...
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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“…to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak...”
– Cicero on persuasion. JNOMICS
Dec 12th
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Gawker CMS now hacked: Hacker takes over... →
Prescient Sundays w/ JNOMICS: The laws that govern the Internet and all forms of intellectual property are about to move in a decidedly conservative direction.
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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“We need so many love songs because the imperative rituals of flirtation,...”
– Dave Hickey - Air Guitar
Dec 12th
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Dec 11th