“I’m a big believer in human curators. Algorithms alone do a terrible job of predicting what will be interesting to readers.” —
Instapaper founder Marco Arment at Studiomates lunch (via curiositycounts)
If you replace “readers” with “listeners”… it’s the same dynamic. Humans matter.
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Most definitely yes.
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Important note: Human curators doesn’t necessarily mean additional human labor.
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The Hype Machine iPhone app, “Hype Radio” is here!
Very excited to finally have this in the store. The app turns music blogs into mobile radio stations. It’s a new way to experience the music that bloggers are writing about - a lean-back experience that lets the new stuff come to you.
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Funny stuff.
Going around and around all the Internets …
Roberta’s Art Dept. Limited edition T-shirt Sale tomorrow!!! 11am-5pm
Wall St. Journal : STORMY WEATHER: View of Manhattan looking south through a tinted window Thursday afternoon as a thunderstorm made its way across the city. A sunny weekend is predicted for the New York area.
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I’m very excited that Gary Johnson has announced that he’s running for president in 2012. He’s running as a Republican (he is a 2 time Republican Governor from New Mexico), but that is a bit misleading. He isn’t a neo-con and he isn’t going to be the right wing Christian’s dog in the fight; he’s not your typical Republican candidate.
Instead of going into his whole bio (which is impressive), I want to make a point for why he can be a uniter on both the left and right by the issues.
He wants the government out of your life.
He’s also for drastic spending cuts - 40% across the board, including welfare projects, defense spending, etc…
Gary Johnson is certainly an underdog. Much like Ron Paul, but without the gold bug stigma attached. I do think it is going to be a weak pool for the Republican primary, and I believe he can swing many liberals who care about gay marriage, drug policy, and defense spending that Obama has shown he won’t touch. Check out his site.
“I’ve noticed what is close to becoming a disturbing trend that might be a unintended consequence of lean startup methodology. Startups are so focused on iterating quickly and pivoting and catch-phrasing their way into product market fit, they’re not spending any time dreaming about the big vision that should be guiding them. Dream big. Solve a huge problem. Daydream about what your company (not your product) will look like in 2 years. Articulate how that dream can be reached with your product.” —
Charles Smith: Lean Startup doesn’t mean no grand vision.
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know about it: A system where everyone wins. -
There are a lot of of reasons why I’m so excited to be building knowabout.it, but I think one of the biggest reasons is beacuse it’s truly a system where everyone wins.
That’s a pretty bold statement, so let me explain what I mean by that.
As I see it, we’ve really got three players invovled…
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know about it: Managing Content Overload -
Let’s forget for a minute that the average Know About It user has 500 links flowing through their social streams daily. Taking just one prolific source like TechCrunch serves as an interesting use case for Know About It. As of 7:45 PM EST on 4/12/11 TechCrunch had posted 38 articles in a 24 hour…
Repost from the Know About It blog.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-3) -
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