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For a brief period in history, we have lived in an era of paid content. How did this happen, why did it happen — and most of all: why will this soon end?
Noam Chomsky has estimated that humans first created […]

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Nils Landgren is a trombonist, singer, bandmaster, arranger, professor, concert organiser, and an inexhaustible ambassador for Swedish music around the world. His multi-facetted musical life, together with his […]

Mainstream media has traditionally been closely linked to “paid media” (advertising), because of the long-standing tradition of bifurcation in these traditional media channels — namely that “free content” is […]

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If you have an account on facebook or twitter, if you use gmail or hotmail, if your identity depends on someone else’s brand name, then that brand has branded your ass: thereby, you belong to that company.
If you […]

Celebrate yourself!
That sounds simple enough doesn’t it? Sure does — but then why don’t more people do that? My hunch is that they simply haven’t learned how to do it.
Let me give an example:

Many people […]

The Times, They Are A’ Changin’ (feat. The Chieftains, Toumani Diabete, & Lisa Hannigan)

My friend Lars posted today about something a guy named Evgeny wrote about strolling — in other words: browsing — the web… and in particular, Lars said to Evgeny:

I disagree, profoundly.

Personally, I do not […]

It’s the perfect metaphor for what I love about Silicon Valley. It’s not just individual hot startups of-the-moment; it’s that unique startup ecosystem that continually shoots up new companies no matter how frothy […]

Der Frauenhof in Frankfurt-Niederrad ist eins der wenigen erhaltenen Barock-Gebäuden im Raum Frankfurt:

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Native speakers of English probably speak several thousand words productively / actively (so-called “speaking” vocabulary).
I wish to investigate something else: How many words do non-native speakers of English […]

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… — but remember, S.H.: a mountain is something you don’t want to F with

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No one exists in a vacuum — and entrepreneurs are certainly no exception. Yet there is a myth — the myth of the “self-made” entrepreneur. I want to dis-spell this myth — and to do so I would like to use one of […]

There are many ways to find things. For example: you may find something lovely or delicious. One of my favorite corollaries of Murphy’s Laws is that you will always find something in the last place that you look […]

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Amid all of the writing about ICANN’s obviously flawed model for top level domains, I have had a little bit of an “AHA!” insight that I want to share with interested parties.
It is so simple, I cannot believe […]

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