Systemic whaaaaaa???
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I cannot listen to this song without getting chills.
Last night’s fortune
Three ways to take this advice:
1) When you see a person smiling, step on his face.
2) Don’t smile, because someone will step on your face.
3) There is no other way to take this horribly misguided fortune.
"How did all these billions of dollars slip through Ballmer's fingers? How did Microsoft find itself a leader in nothing and playing catchup on every front -- in MP3 players, on the cloud, in search? How did Amazon roll out S3 and not Microsoft? How did Google control the search market? How did Apple take over online music retailing and MP3 hardware? How did Microsoft let that market for smartphones get away from them? How is it that everything about Microsoft's business is backward looking? This is the real problem they have now. They're fighting wars that are already over. They're investing huge energy into defending things they already control, like Windows. As they do this, as they put so much effort into lost causes like search (Bing v. Google) they keep missing out on new things. So their problems just keep getting bigger and bigger, like a snowball rolling down a hill."
The last few frames are simply ridiculous, but I think what really jumped out at me was the Katrina Effect. Wow. (thanks, Flowing Data)
The new Ken Burns documentary series is entitled The National Parks: America's Best Idea. After watching the first of the six-part series for free on pbs.org, it occurred to me that on the list of America's Best Ideas, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting also ought to rank pretty highly. Yes, it's like sixty years younger than the BBC. Yes, it's a convoluted system, where the public funds a private nonprofit corporation, which in turn funds individual local public television affiliates. Yes, it can be as much a political football as a public asset. But if taxpayer money is going to produce any television, it might as well be the best damn thing to air on TV since the West Wing. I know this isn't an airtight rationale for preserving the CPB, but let's all just take some time to savor the enjoyment of watching beautiful films about our public lands, funded (in part) by our public broadcast venture. It makes me feel good about my country, because, in the words of Sam Seaborn, "I think giving people a vision of government that's more than Social Security checks and debt reduction is good. I think government should be optimistic."
You might catch something, but you're not gonna like it.
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090930/report-comcast-buying-nbc-for-35-bil...
I have social media ADHD.
