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McLuhan And Morals

BY Noah BrierMon Jul 25, 2011

Lots of people are celebrating what would have been Marshall McLuhan's 100th birthday and I figured it was a good chance to throw my own feelings into the ring.READ»

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Percolate: The Microblogging Platform Where Tumblr And Twitter Go To Hang Out

BY Austin CarrThu Jul 7, 2011

The startup, currently in its "double secret alpha" version, taps into your RSS and Twitter feeds, culls content based on your interests--the stuff that "percolates up"--and then lets you share your thoughts on the subject with friends. READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Really Understanding

BY Noah BrierMon Jun 27, 2011

When we search for understanding of anything new (whether it's a piece of technology or a fundamental shift in the world financial system) we tend to grab on to the answers that reinforce the things we believe.READ»

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Invention At Amazon

BY Noah BrierMon Jun 20, 2011

Over at Geekwire, they sum up a question served up to Jeff Bezos at Amazon's most recent shareholder meeting.READ»

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The Problem With Calendars

BY Noah BrierFri May 20, 2011

Frequently I don't realize how interesting an idea is until I find myself repeating it six months later. That's the case with this post by Mike Monteiro about calendar design.READ»

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Who's That Filter?

BY Noah BrierMon May 16, 2011

What's more interesting to me than questions about whether the web is killing serendipity (it's not) is why algorithms are written in the way they are (which very few seem to ask).READ»

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Bin Laden And The Media

BY Noah BrierFri May 13, 2011

Of all the things I read about Osama bin Laden in the days after his death, I think this piece by Steve Coll at the New Yorker was the most interesting (it's only available in full online to subscribers, sorry).READ»

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On Facebook, the Medium Is the Message

BY Noah BrierThu Apr 7, 2011

As anyone who has been reading this site for sometime knows, I'm a big fan of McLuhan, especially his thinking around the message of media.READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Selling Something Other Than Ads

BY Noah BrierWed Apr 6, 2011

I have a joke about brands creating content that starts by explaining that Red Bull is actually one of the largest (if not the largest) producer of action sports content in the world. READ»

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Gauging the Internet's Reactions

BY Noah BrierFri Feb 18, 2011

People are often unsure of what to say in a comment and therefore chose to leave nothing at all.READ»

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Google's Anti-Competitive Behavior

BY Noah BrierThu Feb 17, 2011

When I started a New York Times story about black hat SEO I was hoping that it would finally be the story I was hoping for that questioned whether Google's practice of stomping down paid links could be considered anti-competitive.READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

The Ad Game

BY Noah BrierMon Feb 14, 2011

I have a lot of conversations about how most of the startup world doesn't have a good enough understanding of the idiosyncrasies of the advertising industry.READ»

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Nothing's New

BY Noah BrierThu Feb 10, 2011

Adam Gopnik's New Yorker piece about the current commentary around the Internet breaks the field into three buckets: Never-betters, better-nevers, and ever-wassers.READ»

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The Virus and the Hobbyist

BY Noah BrierFri Jan 28, 2011

William Gibson is about as good as anyone at predicting (and shaping) the future. So naturally, when he admits he got something very wrong it's pretty interesting. In this case he's talking about viruses and how rather than traditionally being tools of states (stuxnet is the impetus for the editorial), they've been tools of hobbyists.READ»

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Infographics Have Jumped the Shark

BY Noah BrierTue Jan 4, 2011

I'm not talking about any particular piece of data visualization, rather I'm talking about the entire phenomenon of turning a whole bunch of information into a pretty, but mostly incomprehensible, picture created to impress the viewer into a sort of submissive state where they pass judgment on a purely aesthetic level.READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Managing Flow

BY Noah BrierWed Nov 10, 2010

If blog platforms were basically just simplified content management systems then where is our FMS (flow management system)?READ»

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Purposeful Obfuscation

BY Noah BrierWed Sep 8, 2010

I keep telling people about this one passage in "The Big Short" (which is totally awesome and very worth reading if you want to have a better understanding of why we're in the financial state we're in). Anyway, it's actually a footnote ...READ»

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The Physical API: Franchising in the Future?

BY Kit EatonWed Aug 5, 2009

Opinion is split on whether the "stealth Starbucks" (aka 15th Ave. Coffee & Tea) is a good thing or not. But we came across some interesting thinking about the store by Snarkmarket, and began to wonder about extending the ...READ»

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The 10 Most Creative People in Marketing and Advertising

BY Danielle SacksThu Jun 11, 2009

1. Alex Bogusky, Co-Chairman, Crispin Porter + Bogusky He shattered the rules of 20th century advertising with campaigns that resemble multi-media hijinks, rather than commercials. Brands like Burger King, Old Navy, and ...READ»