October 2008
5 posts
Financial crisis spells business for lending sites →
Taking Kiva-style lending to the USA
Pop!Tech vs. TED
I have been hearing from a few different people about how great Pop!Tech was. It’s a TED competitor that just took place in Maine last week. The “usual” line-up of digital visionaries (Clay Shirky), social activists (Jessica Flannery of Kiva.org), performance artists (Imogen Heap), and Intellectuals Liberals Admire (George Lakoff) A relative bargain at $3500 vs. $6000 for Ted,...
Death and Pessimism in Popular Culture
I realize that I chiefly consider The New York Times to be The World’s Best Newspaper because of its new analysis essays and its coverage of popular culture. It’s really hard to write about something inherently frivolous and ephemeral in a serious way, but their writers do it week after week.
Ginia Bellafante’s article (A Bleak Show for Bleak Times) about the apocalytic and...
PR and Truthiness
I had an interesting interaction with a nameless PR guy last week. He runs a matching service that links industry experts with journalists looking for quotes. I signed up and the emails came thick and fast- 2-3/day, 5 days week. Of the hundreds of opportunities over three weeks, only one was suitable for me (on how an MBA helps a non-traditional career) and I never heard back from them. So I...
