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#2: "Till you know that you're wasting your time." Until you know that...

Who is doing the interesting things in startup space to solve the publishing problem, particularly the college textbook problem?

At the moment it's showing me adverts for women's weightloss products, digg really should be able to figure out I'm male. There are women on Digg? Knock me over with a feather. If you've ever been…

Because it's free as in beer, and it's not intimidating or filled with Flash like some of the others (the "good enough" design derided by web design snobs). But it's still a dating site, and even the …

Truly sad, esp. the stories of small children sleeping on the street with no food. It's also frightening to me. You've all read recently about major knowledge workers (significant people with Flickr…

Yes, even though Ramsey apparently advises debit card users to opt for "credit" rather than "debit", his hardline stance might create a problem if you're accustomed to using credit cards for major pur…

"It's amazing anyone uses Twitter today." -- Evan Williams

You mean envy, not jealousy: Ordinary language tends to conflate envy and jealousy. The philosophical consensus is that these are distinct emotions.[2] While it is linguistically acceptable to say th…

I believe that it was the Yang responsibility Ah yes, that must have been it.

Lyons slammed the company after Yahoo flacks told him just weeks ago that the Google/Yahoo search deal was a "sure thing" and that Jerry Yang wasn't going anywhere. "Then that deal fell apart. And no…

Not ported.

This is yet another non-news blog post with a sensationalised headline (which, to his credit, he admits). Here's another problem. The author hoists himself on his own petard with this nugget of wisdo…

Other than textbooks, what did you have in mind?

And not every course /should/ be based on a textbook, either. Esp. not in the humanities. It's disgraceful when college Arts and Sciences faculty assign a textbook for PHIL 101 or Introduction to Pl…

What are those little hard licorice candies you get in Holland called, in Dutch? Not the Allsorts he mentioned, but called something else? Also the European dark chocolate is of a much better quality…

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Don't forget that economic downturns, whether real or imagined, are another barrier to entry for your competition.

Very cool, short video. This guy has the right idea, esp. since the housing market is collapsing and lending is going to get really tight, not to mention the low environmental footprint of this "isla…

In order for Twitter to start a subscription model, they'd need international SMS (something they seem to have given up on, as third parties now provide paid SMS bundling) AND IM. Today, I opened my T…

Bob Dylan isn't predictable, but he still had to learn how to cross-pick and play harmonica like everyone else. It is the appearance of shabby carelessness that creates the effect the author is tal…

I love vimperator too, as well as Firebug and the delicious plugin. Until they have a Linux version, switching isn't an issue for me. I did try it on the Win box though and love it. I loaded pages …

Sorry, but I stopped reading when I reached this paragraph: The good news from the Shelfari deal is that when startups get acquired, they tend to stagnate. This is how Del.icio.us went from a truly i…

Yes, that's what I was thinking. I see this as a distributed-computing solution to RIAA legal threats, "The Pirate Bay gambit", if you will.