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hyku | blog - Arranging Life Around the Tour de France - by business blog and social media consultant Josh Hallett

hyku | blog - Arranging Life Around the Tour de France - by business blog and social media consultant Josh Hallett.

This sounds sooo familiar.Enjoy the race, Josh!

An Insight Into the Future of Publishing from Adweek

Check out the interesting backstory from @bmorrissey at Adweek on their "Real-Time Cannes" program. Here's the key quote:

We thought of how so often in the past we’ve been forced to make material fit in containers of the past. A few interesting remarks at a seminar were either a 500-word news story or something that remained in our notebook. An hour and a half meeting would end up yielding a quote in the magazine story.

They built it fast, outside of their corporate boundaries, and with a "will it work?" mindset. Innovate or die tryin'.

Sosazzy?

Minneapolis Interactive Industry Gossip | Share!.

This terrible for so many reasons. Please, this is the last thing we, or anyone, needs. This adds zero value to any conversations and helps no one in any way. No real utility or service.

Love Winer/Hate Winer: This is Dead On.

The Next Killer App is to Twitter as 1-2-3 was to Visicalc (Scripting News). Post like this are the reason i keep reading Winer.  He's so far ahead of the curve, but yet he also knows his history cold.

The first move advantage only matters to the VC's. It's the second (or third) generation of a new tech/model that wins in the long run.

Netflix: Kiosks Will Be No.1 Competitor, Future of Video is Social

Netflix: Kiosks Will Be No.1 Competitor, Future of Video is Social.

America's Newest Profession - WSJ.com

America's Newest Profession - WSJ.com.Useful for later. 40-90k when blogging for a company?

Gillmor: Only the Beginning

Only the Beginning.from Steve Gilmor. Whenever i read his stuff, i always get his passion, and get that what he's talking about it important (most of the time), but i'm never exactly sure *what* he's saying. I'll keep reading though.

The gist of the linked article:

• Friendfeed is redesigning; Gillmor got to see it first
• It's going to be a big change
• Real-time info is more important than we first thought
• Its going to be exciting.

Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams

Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams.

Twitter becomes the Web's Status Indicator

Twitter Fast Growing Beyond its Messaging Roots | Epicenter from Wired.com. It's becoming the generic status indicator for the web overall.

Why I love Minnesota, #512

Shanties & Artists for 2009 | Art Shanty Projects. You have to do stuff like this in the winter so you don't go crazy. We're going today, and it's a beautiful day: 14 degrees, super clear, no wind, and fantastic sun. A couple things like this each month and you can make it through the winter without too much hassle....

If you pay me enough, I'll sing these songs at a karaoke bar

these are listed in order of how drunk i'd have to be in order to sing them. That is, Springsteen=sober, MWH=Very, very plowed.

Born to run by Springsteen

Times Like These by Foo Fighters

Safety Dance by Men Without Hats

Quick Overview of Remix from Best Buy

Finance and Commerce. On Best Buy's Remix program. This is something anyone with a lot of content in a database should consider.