Curated Stories Jan. 31, 2010

If you’re interested in books, either the old-fashioned kind or the electronic kind, you’ve probably caught wind of a major dustup going on between Amazon and book publisher Macmillan, over what price Mac…

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these…

Since I grow incredibly weary of arguing with people whose data points come from talking heads at Fox News/MSNBC/CNN, the “Tea Party,” from Sarah Palin’s Twitter feed or any strictly partisan outlet, I o…

What makes a great teacher? Analyzing more than twenty years of data, Teach for America has found that great teachers had trained in their subject areas rather than in education, and had high “life satisfaction…

Perhaps one of the reasons why the news business is declining in Y/Y sales is that everyone followed industry accepted best practices. In other words, it did not innovate in step with understanding — and mov…

If you’ve got an idea worth spreading, I hope you’ll consider this random assortment of rules. Like all rules, some are made to be broken, but still…
You can name your idea anything you like, but a google-fr…

Ahandy / Software Development Times Blog:
Facebook rewrites PHP runtime — A week ago, I let yall know that the core PHP team had been brought to Facebooks main campus. That team were forced to sign ND…

At one time in history, even da Vinci himself had to pen a resume to explain why he was a qualified applicant. Here’s a translation of his letter to the Duke of Milan, enumerating his many talents and abilities…

As an industry watcher, I look at trends, data, spending, technologies, yet what’s really important is watching the trend of professionals as they grow into these roles managing disruptive technologies.
[Conn…

On a cold Dublin day in 1985, the Irish rugby team were playing England at Lansdowne Road. The country’s rugby team has traditionally played with a lot of pride and passion, but never had the quality to tro…

PC World – Despite its reputation as a consumer device, the presence of the iPhone, and soon the iPad, in the business environment cannot be ignored. IT Administrators at businesses of all sizes must address th…

In the tradition of the Billshrink infographics, Darren Beckett has thrown together this nice little infographic comparing the entry-level iPad’s cost and functions to other popular e-readers like the Amazon K…

Good observation from MG Siegler: the iPad and Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS netbooks are aimed at the same space — that between smartphones and PCs.

One major difference: Apple’s iPhone and iPad are cl…

When Nick Sarillo launched his pizza business, he had one goal in mind: to create a corporate culture unlike any he had seen. Michael Edwards New Recipe ‘Everyone who had a business told me, ‘No one cares like…

One of my exercises in starting a new book is to create two sentences. The first tells you what the book is about and the second tells you who it is for. The challenge is to constrain yourself to two sentences….

The WordPress Process is a series of posts at Newsome.Org, documenting my forced march from the comfort of Blogger to the uncharted territories of WordPress. Recapping the latest developments: 1. FTP publishi…

This week was filled with great conversations with clients about how to approach and benefit from social media – and some less than positive experiences with self-proclaimed social media experts that truly su…

Originally published in HCPLive.com
by Colin Crawford
The Steve Jobs iPad Tablet media show held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco was always going to have a hard time living up to the rid…

Seth Godin does it.
Brian Clark does it.
Gary Vee does it.
Esther Dyson does it.
James Governor does it.
Kathy Sierra does it.
Dennis Howlettt does it.
John T. Unger does it.
Robert Scoble does it.
Fred Wilson…

Acclaimed storyteller Gary Paulsen weaves together his thoughts on The Revolutionary War, the unconditional love of dogs, the faults of the founding fathers, and the inspiration of a librarian in a warm and wit…

As I left Apple’s iPad launch last Wednesday, someone thrust a pamphlet into my hand. Nothing startling about that–there are often folks handing out literature outside these events, and they usually turn o…

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of posts by guest writer Ashkan Karbasfrooshan. Previously, he wrote about the State of Online Video, and 12 Surprising Things Holding Back Online Video Advertisin…

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Okay, so it’s difficult to actually pull money out of buyers for your marketing content (though there are rare exceptions: McKinsey has been doing it for years with the McKinsey Q…

I was approached recently by Design Feast, a blog described as “a go-to resource for students, professionals, educators and the design-curious—delivering relevant and diverse design content,…