June 2008
5 posts
Part IV: Featuring America's Favorite Sports... →
What happened on Deadspin today was truly a rare and awesome event. I think it may be the first ever live, online roasting. For someone who calls Bill Simmons “The Blogfather” and refers to Will Leitch as Michael Corrleone, this post was phenomenal on many levels. Really, today was awesome. Can’t say enough about the journey that has happened over the past two to three years...
“Creativity is just connecting things,” Jobs told Wired Magazine. ...”
– The Wired Interview: Steve Jobs
“The business of advertising is still a business of persuasion. Machines...”
– Millard: Yahoo! Wrong to Veer From Brand
Fantastic article about the talk between Battelle and Millard that I referenced earlier. The future of online advertising.
Tech Visionaries
I am absolutely loving watching the following videos of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and even a little of Steve Ballmer. I know the most about Jobs only because I am reading a book about him right now. The ability to watch these people makes us smarter and supports that the idea that the Internet is making us smarter as a race, contrary to what Nick Carr believes. It really is amazing to have these...
“I could sell that at lunch”
– Wenda Harris Millard, ex Head of Sales at Yahoo and current President of Martha Stewart Media, in response to John Battelle’s question of what it was like to go from selling Yahoo’s audience of 500MM uniques to selling Martha Stewarts digital audience of 5MM uniques.