David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
Forget an MBA – Watch creativeLIVE’s “Secrets of Silicon Valley”
“You can’t learn this in any graduate school. Years ago, I thought about going back to graduate school for an MBA, but nobody was teaching what I wanted to learn. These speakers, who are creating completely new businesses beats any education anywhere. And it didn’t cost $100,000 in student loans.â€
Delicate Glass Sculptures
I've always said that if I had any talent whatsoever in sculpting, the medium I would choose to work with would be glass. I just love how really talented artists play with its transparent/translucent properties, and how it can be melted & made to flow organically....
Economic Crisis Forces Spain’s Newspapers into Digital Migration
Unemployment over 50% - banking system collapse - political instability - newspapers run out of options When asked what are the enduring lessons of the last five years for newspapers, various pundits have opined "Don't enter an economic recession massively...
Turning “Likes” into Schwag: American Airlines and Klout
One in an occasional, erratic and occasionally erratic series Time is money. Image is everything. Manners maketh man. Your reputation precedes you. And now, having a high (enough) Klout score wins you entry into the American Airlines first-class lounge, where you can...
Lesson from Reddit and the Boston Bombing — Don’t Stop Experimenting with Crowdsourcing
The genie is not going back into the bottle. Nor should it.
Our jobs as journalists/media professionals are to figure out how better to make this impulse actually turn into something productive. I give Reddit a lot of credit for actually pitching in and helping.
Best of Journalism, Worst of Journalism
Matty Yglesias says on Salon that online journalism means things have never been better! OK, there is some validity to his POV that access to unlimited sources of information has made the sophisticated news consumer (at least potentially) better-informed than ever...