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Jan 1, 2007

"When the tapestry of alienation becomes the status quo, disaffection merely becomes fashion."-Klosterman, again Klosterman IV Read more

Dec 31, 2006

"More website business owners will realize there is this thing called Social Networks and panic when they can’t be measured. Rest assured, targeted solutions will follow in 2007."-Avinash Kaushik, December 29, 2006 Read more

Dec 29, 2006

"In rock, 'progressive' doesn't mean writing about the future; it means writing about a past that never happened."- Chuck Klosterman, Klosterman IV Read more

Dec 27, 2006

“When Picasso reworked Velazquez, Delacroix, and the other Old Masters, he seemed to be devouring them, appropriating and digesting for his own use their mysterious essence.”-Calvin Tomkins Read more

Dec 27, 2006

Scott Karp wrote last week that innovations in online advertising could dethrone the page view as the metric of choice. Jarvis picks up on it today, from a different angle. This followed up on a post Karp wrote back in September [...] Read more

Dec 22, 2006

Watching this video of American Apparel CEO Dov Charney on Charlie Rose (I think from July 2006), I was struck by these comments Charney made in response to a question about why American Apparel was so successful (my transcription):"Its the [...] Read more

Dec 18, 2006

A common topic of conversation these days seems to be whether or not we are in another tech/Internet bubble. Famous industry names have weighed in such as Forbes/Karlgaard (not sure), Scoble (yes but its different this time), Kedrosky (not only [...] Read more

Dec 18, 2006

Take an old blues/jug song, combine some John Phillips Monterey Pop mojo with a few music freaks from the penninsula, and this is what you get: Read more

Dec 18, 2006

Carmun is a wonderful service (where I am a founder/investor) with a lot of potential. Call it social networking for brainiacs, the yin to the Facebook yang, whatever . . . but its goal is to create an online community for [...] Read more