DefinitiveInk

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Wonderful and depressing infographics on the state of gay rights in the US. 

Wonderful and depressing infographics on the state of gay rights in the US. 

My little e-mail is stuck at the security desk because it is refusing to watch the movie about security and is having a Larry David like argument with the imaginary guard. 

My little e-mail is stuck at the security desk because it is refusing to watch the movie about security and is having a Larry David like argument with the imaginary guard. 

Recent research shows that the average small business has a monthly marketing budget of around $350. Many vendors in the space, however, have missed the mark by either offering premium solutions outside the price range of many small business owners, or low end and cheap solutions that also often don’t appeal to small businesses because they fail to drive the value that small business owners expect.

Confronting the Local Online Marketing Hype | Yodle

9 Deadliest Start-up Sins « Steve Blank

Assuming you know what the customer wants

The “I know what features to build” flaw

Focusing on te launch date

Emphasizing execution instead of testing, learning, and iteration

…. good stuff

8 hours ago

The pace of technological change will not abate, and to think of our current time as a transition between two eras, rather than a continuum of change, is a mistake. There has been tremendous disruption in journalism, but there are upsides: everyone has a printing press, there are no gatekeepers [or at least new gatekeepers], and journalism can and will be better than in the past.

The Head of Google News on the Future of News | MIT Center for Civic Media

The Olympic Torch is lit. (via ESPN)

The Olympic Torch is lit. (via ESPN)

Great Egret in the Gowanus

Great Egret in the Gowanus