February 2011
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January 2011
13 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Sufjan Stevens (66)
Marc Ribot (28)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals (16)
Iron & Wine (13)
John Cale (7)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Daniel Lanois & Brian Eno (21)
EconTalk: Russ Roberts (13)
Sussan Deyhim (2)
Prince Buster (1)
Toots and the Maytals (1)
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“In Dubai, everyone is bisexual,” a 22-year-old Columbia University accounting...”
– For Gay Arabs, a Place to Dance, and Break Down Walls [NYTimes]
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-9) →
Seigen Ono (9)
Philip Sherburne (9)
Björk (3)
EconTalk: Russ Roberts (3)
Roger Miller (2)
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Quality Vs Quantity [Contrast] →
The dark side of scaling:
…chasing the numbers is often a short sighted goal.
Take LinkedIn for example, where connecting to someone used to mean something but has now degraded into yet another game-able metric, up there with Facebook “fans” and purchased followers. Path.com may be an unclear offering, but there is something rare and valuable in a network focussing on the quality of...
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The Passion Economy: Profiles in Passion:... →
passioneconomy:
This summer I drove across America in search of people have taken a risk to turn a passion into a career. From an export merchant turned baker in Chicago, to an electrical engineer turned pastor in Tulsa, I found stories that changed my perspective on both the benefits – and…
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“16) “You” will be turning into a cloud of data that circles the planet like a...”
– One of Douglas Coupland’s 45 reasons to be pessimistic about the future.
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