February 2010
12 posts
The Curator's Dilemma
[Full disclosure: I work on Abnormal Returns]
In my first post, I stated that community powered curation will yield higher conversion rates than search and aggregation because there is an increased perception of value. While this is a critical point, there is also a key architectural difference. Curators do not crawl and index the web.
The dominant publisher business model is a version...
“Z has been a cornerstone part of this franchise and his jersey will hang in the...”
– I’m going to have a big problem with the Cavs if we don’t get Z back for the playoffs. Pulling a Sox/Nomar and mailing a ring is unacceptable.
Cleveland Cavaliers get Washington Wizards’ Antawn Jamison in 3-team deal - ESPN
Community Will Power the Curated Web
[Full Disclosure: I work on Abnormal Returns]
The curated web has become a heated topic. When I began writing this post, I intended to avoid the debate regarding search engine, aggregator, curator and publisher economics. It seems impossible to omit. I believe that search and aggregation lead to curation— a critical component of the internet that will drive massive amounts of valuable...
A Man With One Leg Can't Run As Fast As A Man With...
The concept of success and failure is quite damaging and actually erroneous, because there is no such thing as success and failure. There is one’s experiences and challenges, and how the individual faces up to all of that. A man with one leg can’t run as fast as a man with two, but running might well be more Herculean on the face of his difficulties.
Throughout my whole life I’ve...
“If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I’d be making money in a...”
– Mitch Hedberg