I’m going to Spoon and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (CYHSY) on back-to-back nights (Dec 30th and Dec 31st respectively). I’m really excited for both shows.
I’ve been a huge spoon fan for about 4 years now, but I have not had the chance to see them live until now. “Stay Don’t [...]

I visited the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston today. It used to be a cramped little museum hidden in a retrofitted firehouse in the Bay Back. However, a few weeks ago, the ICA opened in a brand new South Boston building right on the water. The combination of the building [...]

At Union Square Ventures, we spend substantial time thinking about customer service. I know it sounds like a rather narrow subject in the larger picture of aiding portfolio companies and making investments. However, as customers cross the barrier from being consumer to being prosumers (producer + consumer), customer service is more important than [...]

Pentagram Design re-branded Christmas. Complete with sharp sans-serif font, five-note musical signature (Think: “Intel chime”), and hot brandable name, x.mas is Christmas 2.0 (Yes, of course they used the phrase “Christmas 2.0″). Companies would pay to rep the brand with their own logo (see image on the right). They claim they are [...]

Premise
Two nights ago I started building a list of “best albums of 2006″ lists. I thought the aggregate of the data would be interesting to capture. I find reading best albums lists fascinating because I can completely agree with one choice and be totally turned-off by the next. I found myself reading [...]

I found out yesterday that I am a new member of the 9rules content network.
Whenever I’m looking for new, interesting blogs on a very particular subject I turn to three sources:

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Google Blog Search

I’m glad to get increased distribution for The Gong Show, and I’m glad to be a part of what I consider [...]

Penny Arcade has a great post up that explains the origins of the hit web comic (scroll down to the post “I’d like to thank God…”).
Apparently Tycho and Gabe were rebuffed Next Generation after Next Generation called out to their readers looking for people to write a comic about gaming. Next Generation [...]

At Stanford I majored in Symbolic Systems. The elevator pitch on Symbolic Systems (or SymSys for cool kids in the know) it is the study of the intersection between humans and computers, which can include logic, rational thought, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, articifial intelligence, computer-generated music, neuroscience, etc… you get the picture. [...]

The NYTimes has an article on the developing habit of venture capitalists asking their children for opinions on consumer-facing web services. The article is generally disparaging about the VC due diligence process.
It’s no secret that this practice occurs. For many web services these days, asking the children of venture capitalists for [...]