Saw this over on RAIN few editions ago, but was on vacation so only posting now:
Sirius founder Martine Rothblatt told Fortune Magazine that she believes satellite radio won’t be able to compete with in-car Internet radio. “There’s going to be ever more bandwidth available to distribute content totally via terrestrial cellular infrastructure. [...]
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March 20th, 2009 at 3:00 pm by Ari Shohat
Sirius founder: satellite radio won’t be able to compete
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February 13th, 2009 at 1:54 pm by Ari Shohat
Frames of Failure
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Jeremy’s post on failure rang true to me.
Failure is someone’s judgement call, including your own. But a judgment is made on a snapshot in time, usually without getting the complete picture.
Often people make a judgement as if it was on just one or two frames of a film. They have no idea what frames were [...]
February 12th, 2009 at 8:52 pm by Ari Shohat
Amusing reader comments on thesun.co.uk
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Okay, this is totally random. Maybe it’s just that I am not British and it’s otherwise not amusing.
geertgreat asks:
will you boycott all dominos pizza………..
…….now that one of its stores has gone halal?
Farmer_Fred replies:
Oi wooddn’t goo tew enny o’ them thar playces, lood o’ rubbish. Burger King, or shood oi say Bogie Burgers, ar even werse, [...]
I know I should be writing here more. To be honest, I want to but I’ve been feeling terribly guilty about such prospect because I have so much to do.
Next week, we’ll be moving the office here from Burlingame to downtown Palo Alto.
I am excited. Last week I had a meeting with someone in San [...]
January 5th, 2009 at 3:32 pm by Ari Shohat
People Who Pitch Using AOL Accounts…
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get a 90% penalty on their pitch the moment their email comes in. Who on earth would still want to use some_email@aol.com and expect to be taken seriously for a project or colloboration?
Very rarely I still see older folks use it who are actually talented, and I feel someone just hasn’t clued them in. If [...]
Happy New Year everyone. I will have something interesting to post soon, stay tuned.
December 30th, 2008 at 8:18 pm by Ari Shohat
Goals and Deadlines, the Ancient Far East Way
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Excerpt from here:
“In 210 BC, Xiang Yu led an army against the Ch’in Dynasty. While his troops slept, he burned his ships and smashed all the cooking pots. He explained to his troops that they had to either fight their way to victory or die. His troops won 9 consecutive battles. Eliminating options improved the [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm by Ari Shohat
Do We Need A New Hymn for the Socialist States of America?
| Business, Economy, General Rants, Life Happens | 3 Comments |
Hey folks. Enjoying the financial markets deflating and busting?
Last week, September 11 actually, I celebrated my 17 years in the USA. It’s also my wife’s birthday (and my friend Rob’s birthday). It’s a good day. Used to be an awesome day, untl 2001 when it became synonymous with the terror attacks, but I digress.
After 17 years [...]
