August 2009
10 posts
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Fred Wilson on Extroversion and Twitter →
Exactly the reason I quit Twitter - I needed to enjoy more things firsthand without distraction.
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“Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is...”
– John Mackey: The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare - WSJ.com
Granted, his main objective is to sell food (he makes his pitch later in the article) but he has some good points. Many of the people that clamor for the “basic human right” of health insurance are the same people who have...
“Cash for Clunkers is a popular program right now, but in the larger scheme of...”
– Ron Paul - Cash for Clunkers
Beck interviews Will Ferrell →
The Shaky Economics Of 'Cash For Clunkers' : NPR →
marc:
Amen, NPR. I think Cash for Clunkers is a terrible idea.
We are literally destroying working products to buy new ones. Did we learn nothing from WALL-E? I love this quote from the NPR story: “Consider a similar program to replace old light bulbs with more efficient ones. … Would you smash the old bulbs?” Ugh.
Not to mention that the recession was caused (no matter what any political...
Cambridge Cop Accidentally Arrests Henry Louis... →
(via nickdeplume)
Real Mexico
Linde: I can't wait to go to Mexico.
Me: Me neither - but some day, I want to go to real Mexico, like a small beach town and hang with the locals.
Linde: The drug lords with swine flu?
Rebranding
It’s one thing to rebrand if the majority of your current product offerings might not relate to your name. (Radio Shack rebranding to “the Shack”).
It’s another thing to change your name to try to be more “hip” with the “texting generation”. (Pizza Hut rebranding to “the Hut”)
But when did either
a) having a niche
or
b) telling...