Google’s review of the year in search, 2014.
Category Archives: Paying Attention
Looking Back: The Lists of 2014
We define a year by what happens, what stands out, and what we remember. At the end of every year, there is a massive, multi-media attempt to catalog the events, news, and entertainment of the year through lists:” the best of…”, “the most of..”, ” the biggest..”, etc. It’s a form of information shorthand–all you need to …
CLICKPAK: THE SONY HACK
Information and viewpoints on the Sony Hack. Digital invasion by a foreign power or a brilliant PR strategy? Inside job or international scandal? Judge for yourself: here’s a ClickPak of coverage from a variety of sources. SONY THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST TWITTER (source: Motherboard.vice.com) SONY TO RELEASE “THE INTERVIEW” ON DECEMBER 25th. (source: Bloomberg.com) CAVED: CHRISTIE BELIEVES …
While We Were Out
The big events from June through December of this year, while the site was on sabbatical. June Malaysia Airlines Flt 357 Still Not located. The plane originally went missing on 8 March 2014. Apple introduced a new programming language for iOS and OSX called SWIFT. Pro-Russian Militants fight with Ukrainian military. KKR(Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts) buys new …
Conan O’Brien’s Darthmouth Commencement Address
Paying Attention: As long as Commencement Addresses are “top of mind”, might as well bring up another great one, this one by Conan O’Brien at Dartmouth in 2011. Not quite as serious as Steve Jobs but every bit as impactive and quite funny. It’s not short: 20 plus minutes in length, but that’s OK, since …
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Conan O'Brien's Darthmouth Commencement Address
Paying Attention: As long as Commencement Addresses are “top of mind”, might as well bring up another great one, this one by Conan O’Brien at Dartmouth in 2011. Not quite as serious as Steve Jobs but every bit as impactive and quite funny. It’s not short: 20 plus minutes in length, but that’s OK, since …
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Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address
Paying Attention: The season of commencement and commence addresses is upon us. And while the air will be filled with heavy sounding pronouncements like “the future is ahead of us” , how about changing the tune and going back to one of the great commencement speeches of all time, by a man considered one of …
The Disneyland Prospectus
Paying Attention: Thanks to BoingBoing, we can now all get a glimpse of the proposal that Walt Disney produced in advance of creating Disneyland. It takes a lot of vision to build a Magic Kingdom and it took a lot of work to produce a document that could convey the scale and ambition of Disneyland to …
Morning Briefing: How to Start The Data Day
Paying Attention: There is a lot of news (from every possible corner of the globe) along with a massive number of people, companies, causes, and products vying for your attention on the internet. Here’s a list of some sites that you really should have at the top of your bookmark file. BBC Great source for …
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Behind The Scenes: Bentley Films New Video With iPhone 5S.
Paying Attention: It’s not secret that we like Apple. We have Apple phones, Apple Computers, Apple iPods, and Apple wireless systems. It makes things simpler to have it all in one domain and, yes, each operating system has it’s own benefits and, also yes, we’re conversant in all the operating systems (Windows and Chrome and Android) …
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