Calacanis and Arrington’s respective announcements about the TechCrunch 20 conference are interesting. It’s a smart move by jumping in front of the growing anti-DEMO-payola parade. I love to see anything that features cool technology, and I’m sure Calacanis and Arrington will assemble a stellar judging panel.
I do have one concern. [...]

Brad has a great post up on the USV blog. My favorite part:
Is there a basis for competition beyond the governance systems underlying these services? If pressed, I would guess it will be values. It might be possible for two equally effective governance systems to compete by internalizing different values.
Values as the competitive element [...]

Fred Destin posted a nice set of photos on his blog depicting his impression of New York. This European take on New York is a refreshing reminder of how uncommon some of New York’s typical scenes really are. My personal favorite is one I would have titled “Police 2.0,” depicted on the right.
Enjoy! [...]

I attended The Scene at Second Stage on Saturday night. It’s a cast of four, which was both intimiate in size and star-studded with Tony Shalhoub and Patricia Heaton.
The play was dark commentary on our image obsessed culture. Though the play was a sad portrait of a man’s downward spiral, it certainly [...]

I enjoy the archived content I find on the websites for email lists like Thrillist, UrbanDaddy, and Very Short List, but I hate the amount of attention they demand by requiring that I subscribe via email to get updates. Why not offer an RSS feed? RSS was invented to deliver this type of [...]

For fellow Tarantino fans: the trailer for Grindhouse defines new levels of awesomeness.
Here’s a brief official synopsys:
“Grind House” – noun – A downtown movie theater - in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the ’30s and ’40s - known for “grinding out” non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies. From groundbreaking directors Quentin [...]

Update: This post by Nabeel is a great argument in favor of the time spent on a site metric. Time Spent per Vists * Visits is fairly accurate way to measure engagement, and that analysis leads to interesting conclusions about the importance and size of pogo.com. I wish I had read this before [...]

Last time I posted about a talk in NYC (by Cory Doctorow), I bumped into a few readers, which was great, so I’m posting here again.
The same NYU Free Culture organization that brought Cory Doctorow is now bringing Jimmy Wales to come speak. I plan to attend.
The details are in the original [...]

I often times find things on the net that I find very interesting, but they are not substancial enough to merit a post of their own. So here’s an aggregation of some of those items I have been storing up for the past few weeks:

YouTube Video titled Le Grand Content: Like the blog Indexed [...]