February 2012
6 posts
“The easiest way to tweak the bizknobs is to ask them whether “Sense of...”
– A personal history from a relatively new financial blogger I’ve come to really respect.
Impostor Syndrome « Interloper
“I heard the stuff about perks and gifts were “the tip of the iceberg.” Do ad...”
– Don’t ask what goes into the sausage of online advertising, you don’t want to know (jeans party!).
Confessions of an Ad Sales Exec | Digiday
RoiCarthy.com: CodeBlue - The Israeli Hacker... →
Oh this is great - a terrific initiative from roicarthy:
Hackers. The topic I have a conversation about at every industry event I attend. It’s always same conversation. And it’s been going on for at least three years. Hackers.
Or rather, the lack of hackers in the local market.
Put simply, our Startup Nation has been heading down a dangerous path…
January 2012
9 posts
“according to a friend in retailing, the average Facebook woman updates her...”
– I’m with Jeff on this one… FB has a good shot at becoming a more powerful marketing platform than even big G.
Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up: Is Facebook Killing Google? No, But…
“I am convinced that the education market is going to be upended in the next...”
– I think he’s right, and this is a course I’d like to take.
Musings on Markets: My small challenge to the “university” business model
“I wouldn’t think we created a big enough profile to spawn a malicious deed like...”
– That’s the way my grandparents’ generation thought. I didn’t think that twisted if-we-just-lay-low-and-act-like-real-americans-everything-will-be-ok attitude, with its concomitant if-they-abuse-us-it’s-our-fault was still around. Hoping the reporter took Mr. Goldberg’s...
“Chen claimed that he mistakenly sold those Occam shares while trying to sell...”
– Oh that’s a good one - I clicked on the wrong ticker!
Hedge Fund Legend Michael Steinhardt Sanctioned For Improper Trading - Forbes
Get my drift?
My British colleagues have an endearing way of ending a statement with: “Does that make sense?”
This is the equivalent of the Israeli: “Hevanta?’ (Understand?!)
There’s a lot to be said for Israeli candor, but in this case I prefer the British way. If something isn’t clear, the speaker implicitly takes responsibility for that. And if you think you disagree...
December 2011
2 posts
Books should be web-enabled
I don’t read as many books as I once did. I still make my way through two or three at a time and have a pile I’m waiting to begin (like Pooh Bear, I always like to know where my next pot of honey is coming from), but my pace is way slower than it was years ago. Part of this is having four kids and a demanding job, but part of it also is that I enjoy reading quality material online. I...
November 2011
5 posts
“So the problem is not that the E.C.B. can’t act but that it won’t. The obstacles...”
– So basically the whole European debt crisis is a large scale re-enactment of our near nightly discussions of how to respond to a misbehaving kid - teach them consequences or let this one pass. Germany has the kids stuck in their room for hours sweating it out awaiting their final decision.
Italy,...
Continuations: Sharing: One Network (To Rule Them... →
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Yesterday, Techmeme was ablaze with posts about sharing on Facebook’s Open Graph. A CNet post by Molly Wood with the title “How Facebook is ruining sharing” appears to have kicked it all off. In it she argues that the automated (“frictionless”) sharing via Open Graph apps results in a lot…
Makes sense in principle but most folks don’t want to build and actively...
“his legitimization of personal voice in his widely-syndicated newspaper column...”
– Anil Dash on Andy Rooney. I think that’s absolutely true. I remember watching Rooney at the end of 60 Minutes as a kid, loving his willingness to take on conventional wisdom and mass market consumerism. His constructive snark was a type of proto-blogosphere stance. He was fisking things while...
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
13 posts
“Another new technology the conference is seeking to cover is the use of avatars...”
– That’s kind of creepy. I don’t think the first thing I’d say upon seeing myself in +20 years is “I really should be saving more.” I’d probably just scream and run away.
T3: The Conference: Dave Drucker and Joel Bruckenstein Announce Preliminary Agenda for T3...
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Continuations: How Schools Destroy Learning →
So true, we also constantly say this while helping our kids with homework.
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Couldn’t resist an attention grabbing headline here after spending yesterday morning with my daughter on the kind of homework that just completely takes the fun out of learning. In geography her class is learning about latitude and longitude. As homework they got a work sheet that made them look…
WatchMy dad and his grandfather, Philadelphia 1945
“This is a difficult letter to write and that because as it is posted it will...”
– The great Israeli wine critic - and more importantly, advocate of the local industry - has died, and left his own obit. WineLovers Discussion Group • View topic - Rogov Obit
Dear Extremist Haredi Zealot Neighbors… http://t.co/Q4rQkip by @SarKE
“Online advertisers have been trained in the way that, say, TV advertisers...”
– Nick Denton from MediaPost Publications You Can’t Beat Traffic 09/01/2011
Whitney Tilson’s hedge fund down 13.7% in August, 22.1% for the year
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Too hot for kuba soup? Na. (@ בין עזה לברלין) http://t.co/tHc7PoO
August 2011
11 posts
Nice place let’s see how the fish is (@ דרבי בר דגים - כשר) http://t.co/16UxXiL
Saw ‘Footnote’ last night. It deserves all the accolades it’s receiving. The two lead actors are… http://t.co/HiiIQLK
Footnote (He'arat Shulayim)
Saw Footnote last night. It deserves all the accolades it’s receiving. The two lead actors are outstanding, the writing is terrific and Yosef Cedar (who wrote and directed it) is some kind of genius. He’s the one who deserves the Israel Prize at a young age. Scenes are shot in local spots familiar to us, and we have a lot of academic friends who loved it and attest to the unfortunate...
From outstanding boogie boarding to carrying screaming kids through the thunderstorm back over the boardwalk in 3 minutes flat.
“This is a great story…….though one you’re going to have to spend a bit more time...”
– As he leaves the WSJ, Mark Schoofs shares “the clearest roadmap I’ve ever seen on how to write a Page One story” - an email he received from colleague Bill Spindle.
WSJ reporter Schoofs says goodbye « Talking Biz News
According to Chartbeat @businessinsider gets ~2x more referrals from LinkedIn as it does from Yahoo Finance http://bit.ly/raqE6Z
Israeli stocks are down 6+%… feeling very late ‘08ish
The Whiteboard: What is a ratings agency, anyway? →
Get it on the whiteboard, pronto!
paddyhirsch:
Here’s how I look at it. Imagine a house, full of medical students, none of whom have a car.
One day, John moves in. He has a very nice new VW Jetta TDI SportWagen, and he is immediately bombarded with requests from his housemates to lend him the vehicle for one thing or another. They’ll pay him…
early morning jog in Regent’s Park, London… mostly just me and some really large ducks… great way to start the day
um, no @Grooveshark, The Eagles and James Taylor are not good Radio results following my listening to Jason Moran’s album TEN
July 2011
34 posts
“Faith in Treasurys is far stronger than it ever was in Lehman Bros. This...”
– This comparison doesn’t do much for anyone except, well, Pimco. If Kashkari wants to write something interesting and helpful, tell us what exactly the day after a downgrade would look like for a trillion dollar fixed income firm like his. This seems to me like a scare tactic with the ratings...
v good by @sarahcuda on need for Yahoo Finance to be displaced and YCharts, but yes ticker headlines fail is YF fault http://tcrn.ch/mUkQOx
Google Hotel Finder http://www.google.com/hotelfinder/ flight finder next?