Month: January 2009

Predication, looking at MSFT lay-offs, YHOO, etc. In the next 45 days tech will layoff 300,000 people.

Following on my 300K layoffs prediction: This will be an overreaction, creating an opportunity for radical change structurally/ecomically

Finally, on my 300K layoff prediction: Who wants to join a series of discussions about how to take full advantage of the opportunities?

@raminf Just YHOO+MSFT approx 24,000. looks January will be a bloodbath, then realization cut too far. contracting to fill critical holes

Oh, how I enjoy paying bills every month. Such fun. Have 2004 World Series, game 4, to watch, at least.

RT @shelisrael: RT @asaunders Please retweet: Using social media to raise $5000 for homeless kids and promote eComm 09. http://bit.ly/14CPr

Novelin140: Catching his girl lightly in his arms, Ahmed ducked and ran into the whining of the mortar. He did not care who started this war

Holy smoke. Snow falling in Lakewood, WA, again. Quarter inch in the last 20 – 30 minutes. Perhaps school vacation isn’t over just yet.

RT @guykawasaki: Hunter S. Thompson motivational posters http://is.gd/emjv | "Honesty" is my new desktop background

"History is truly the poorer for the Bush administration." Failure to maintain records is criminal in a government. http://bit.ly/tYbX

So much for self-regulation. Wall Street privately blacklisted Bernie Madoff, but wouldn’t speak to regulators. http://bit.ly/4g2Svv

@Buzzmodo You’d think we’d have learned a little from Johnson, Nixon, Reagan…. But we keep hiring Rosemary Woods clones.

Dixon Doll, Mike Moritz raising red flags on exits. Seems different, smaller liquidity will come of this downturn. http://bit.ly/13ZHF

In case you wonder what the definition of a Depression actually is, The Economist has an answer. http://bit.ly/4c3NRU

A great archive of the creation of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. We thought big as a species. http://bit.ly/gr2U

@PolyContextual Thanks!

Buying more Jonathan Coulton at http://www.songslide.com, where I can give him what I think the songs are worth.

Stolen from my doorstep, an Amazon box. Hope the thief reads what’s inside. Jacques Lacan will be punishment with purpose.

@PolyContextual I’ll leave some Heidegger around as bait…. then whack ’em with Badiou when they show up.

@PolyContextual If the Althusser doesn’t work, I’ll bombard the area with pre-Leninist Zizek. Give em the lash of materialist subjectivity

got a Twitter Grade of 96/100 from @grader.http://twitter.grader.com/godsdog so probably means Grader is full of it. Posting pace ovrwghtd

@jayrosen_nyu Keen’s polemics fail b/c he tries 2b both liberal (warning fascism) and conservative (warning of masses) http://bit.ly/14MQQ

RT @zecool: RT @BreakingNewsOn Major earthquake|The tyranny of urgency.Don’t really know anything, yet 2nd alert.Make 2009Year of Reflection

RT @zecool: PLS DMs with "hey! check out this funny blog about you…" a PHISHING EXPLOIT! |That’s useful urgency. Still, reflection needed.

@zecool — the reports make it sound unusual, b/c they don’t make clear aftershocks expected. All same epicenter – 1 quake, 2 aftershocks

RT @mashable: My Twitemperature Reveals World’s Hottest Twitter User ( http://tinyurl.com/75rpvh )|| Arrgh, a plague of tweet rankings on us

@dangillmor Keen’s context is mangled by trying to play to both sides, covering his elitism and obfuscations with "sensible liberal" ideas

@kevinmarks @dangillmor @vielmetti -Let’s leave troll unfed. Think Keen’s m.o. is to concoct arguments from an unassailable false "center"

RT @valdiskrebs Wild guess:a recent Twitter App that asked for your name AND password gave today’s phishers access|great point. changing pwd

The People’s Daily is complaining about cheap knock-offs being sold for cheaper than ever. Crisis hits Silk Street, http://bit.ly/xyCE

In November, consumption based on prices fell, but consumption by volume rose on much lower prices. http://bit.ly/kQr2

India cut interest rates by 1% today, the central bank sounding like the U.S. Fed 12 mos. ago: "slowing ahead." http://bit.ly/e6Bf

China’s exports down for 5th straight month, the growth rate may be as low as 5.5%. http://bit.ly/1Dus2Z

Head of NASA Goddard implores Obama to phase out coal-power, carbon tax with 100% dividends, and better nuclear. http://bit.ly/3ZIa6A

@valdiskrebs — great write up about the cost-benefit of Twitter follow rates. An important contrarian perspective. http://bit.ly/Vm2B

@ dangillmor — can you follow me so I can DM response to you? Thanks! Mitch

@dangillmor — can you follow me so I can DM response to you? Thanks! Mitch

@valdiskrebs makes sense for most people, I think. the star system of unlimited following dilutes value for all but a very few.

@peterkaminski @hexodus diff. between respect RTing and utility RTing distinct. Respect emphasizes source auth vs util = use-value of data

2008 produced worst liquidity for VCs since 2003 — down 58% from 2007 http://bit.ly/14C9b

RT @raminf: First app using iPhone animation engine I built for client just came out on appstore. Marley & Me is #35 for paid apps. Huzzah!

@peterkaminski — reputation could build from repeated RTing, but I wouldn’t say it was a cause of RTing in most cases, rather an effect.

Poor Chief Justice Roberts. He wants a raise on his $217K salary. He gets to retire at full salary after 15 years. http://bit.ly/e3oVF

Good paper on whether health insurance markets are actually competitive. (Answer: Not really) Via Marginal Revolution http://bit.ly/e3Fs

Mmmmm, and beautiful, too: Mandelbrot Broccoli — a dazzling vegetable http://bit.ly/DbA5

More good information about China’s suppression of the Charter 08 movement http://bit.ly/MfpI

Congrats Wikipedia on passing the $6M funding goal it set. http://bit.ly/nAdZ

Good morning, but still pre-bedtime for us, as we’ve been reading and writing at our house. Happy New Year.

What Will Change Everything? A group rumination on future shocks to the system. http://bit.ly/vLsW

Black hole eats house (it’s someone’s crazy carpentry hobby). Picture at 11. http://bit.ly/xtbe

RT @valdiskrebs: RT @peterkaminski number of retweets :: measure of "respect" or utility? The latter is defensible. "Respect" something else

The Internet delivers, by Ramsey Stirling. "You are the product of the Internet." http://bit.ly/793L