May 2013
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People watch TV online primarily for three reasons:
1. They want to catch-up on a show they missed in broadcast.
2. They want to watch something they haven’t seen on TV before.
3. They want to repeat a show they’ve already seen on broadcast TV.
Repeat viewers comprise a small segment of the online audience, with 30% of respondents in an ABC study saying that they had gone...
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“Yes, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”
– Thomas Edison, creator of electric light bulb, when asked by a reporter where he would send his sons to college.
April 2013
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March 2013
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Lunch with Brian McGrory, editor of The Boston...
This week, we had lunch with Brian McGrory, editor of The Boston Globe. The event was part of Civic Media Lunch at MIT Media Lab. McGrory talked about the evolution of news in the digital age. I like attending this kind of event because I can meet others MIT students.
Here are some of my highlights:
- A good story is necessary to have a readership in digital and print business
- Newspapers...
February 2013
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“Measurement is important, but one of the great fallacies of modern management is...”
– John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, in Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2013)
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“Investors, labor, management, suppliers - they all need to cooperate to create...”
– John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, in Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2013)
“We prefer knowing to thinking because knowing has more immediate value. It keeps...”
– Neal Glaber, in The Elusive Big Idea.
January 2013
The definitive guide to the introverted
futurenauts:
Are you an introverted person? If so, then you will definitely find a lot of truth in Dr. Carmella’s Guide to Understanding the Introverted, which was originally posted by starbug.. If you are extroverted, on the other hand, this guide might come in handy to improve your understanding of your introverted friends.
Image taken from star bug’s soup:...
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Startup Visas →
In a major address on immigration policy in Las Vegas, Obama touted the need for a “startup visa” that allows immigrants who found startups to live in the United States as long as they raise a minimum level of financing and employ a certain number of workers. They could “remain permanently” in the country if their startups continue to grow, he said.
“Right now there...
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Apple for professional users
It’s interesting to see Apple doing things for professional users (iPad 128GB).
Nowadays, people talk a lot about the problem of cannibalization of Apple products. If there is something that Apple is not afraid, is the cannibalization.
From the beginning, Apple follows the mantra -“If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will”. So it’s normal to see: iPad cannibalizes...
Facebook Graph Search Is Boring: We Need A Unified... →
The way I see it, there are three companies offering rudimentary artificial intelligence to consumers at a grand scale: Google, Apple, and now Facebook (…)
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WHEN I GET OFF AFTER AN HOUR ON THE B TRAIN
thembtaruinedmylife:
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“Contrary to what you occasionally hear, “social” is not the be-all...”
– Henry Blodget in Business Insider Revealed!
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“Structured content is the way to a different kind of business model. Any...”
– Karen McGrane, author of Content Strategy for Mobile, in For Real Content Monetization We Need Industry Standard, Two-Way APIs, And Fast.
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“We concentrate so much on the front end, a lot of times we forget about the...”
– Yuri Victor in Why The Washington Post uses WordPress.
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“It’s also possible for groups of people to work together in ways that seem...”
– Tom Malone, professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School.
MIT Sloan is conducting an interesting study about collective intelligence and organizations. Does collective intelligence really exist?
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Health IT startups are growing →
Health software and digital health funding were up 19% and 45% respectively over 2011, while biotech and medical devices were each down. The two biggest areas as measured by VC dollars were consumer health, consumer engagement and personal health tools.
It’s interesting to see how things are changing.
More and more, VC funds are focusing on the heath sector.
It is a change...
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“One of the things about reading aloud is that you have to do it in small bits....”
– Dr Abigail Williams, a lecturer in English at Oxford University in Storytelling: how reading aloud is back in fashion
December 2012
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A New Service Lets Teachers See Exactly How Much... →
Data + Education
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Five trends of 2012
1. Internet regulation
2. The growth of crowdfunding (Kickstarter)
3. Social messaging apps (Whatsapp,Vibe…)
4. Memory Engineering
5. A desire to extract something deeper in digital environments (last cover of The Technology Review)
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“Think of all the innovation that has come about as a direct result of that...”
– Jeff Saginor in What does Google get from supercharging Kansas City’s Internet?
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Hacking biology, not computers
There is a saying that says: technology does not transform a culture until it escapes the clutches of those who created it. This motto is so true when we are talking about the current growing community of scientists called biohackers.
Like the computer hackers, they want to disrupt the biotech field. Working outside the walls of corporations and universities, they do believe in the power of...
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“Intellectual approaches to technology and society can be divided into two broad...”
– Claude S. Fischer in America Calling: Social History of the Telephone to 1940
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How MIT Approaches Innovation In Education... →
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“Creativity is not a process, right? It’s people who care enough to keep thinking...”
– Tim Cook, CEO of Apple (Bloomberg Business Week, December, 2012)
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“It is important to acknowledge the fact that both mass and alternative media...”
– An interesting discussion about ethics in alternative media (from The Tech MIT newspaper).
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‘Boston About Results’ App Puts City’s Performance... →
It sounds good.
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“The Web has such a presentism bias”
– Maria Popova, editor of Brain Pickings.
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The end of a iPad-only publication
Many articles about “The Death of The Daily” have been written.
One platform wasn’t enough, there wasn’t audience clarity, the content was poor are some reasons for the failure, according to some pundits.
I think the demise of The Daily from News Corp shows a common problem in journalism companies that want to migrate to digital - putting technologies ahead of process.
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November 2012
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“Industry can benefit a lot from academia, but not from 200 page reports. And...”
– Amber Case, cyborg anthropologist.
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Lessons from Syria
The disconnecting of the Internet in Syria is an example of who controls the infrastructure of internet has a great power in his hands.
It could be worse if the Internet in Syria was “the platform of all platforms” - banking, traffic control, health programs, IDs, commerce, payments, communications… all depending on the internet to function.
Internet and dictatorial...
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“Digital literacy isn’t just about how to use a computer securely or how to...”
– Josh Stearns in We Need a “Truth” Campaign for Digital Literacy and Data Tracking
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“We write articles. We are storytellers! But not everything should be a story....”
– Jeff Jarvis in Lessons from Sandy. 