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Television awards
My holiday treat was Larry Sanders on the iPod. Among the many, many gems: Larry: Do you know what the American Television Award looks like? Artie: Well, it’s probably a statue of a guy with his head halfway up another guy’s ass.
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Information and understanding
This is my favourite quote from one of the books I’ve been reading over the vacation, Hans Christian von Baeyer‘s Information: The New Language of Science: Why does nature seem granular, discontinuous, quantized into discrete chunks like sand – instead of smooth and continuous like water? The answer is that while we have no idea…
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Vacation
This blog is taking a vacation (to the home of the brave…etc.). We all need one, as Robert Reich points out. In the meantime feel free to explore some of the other stuff here – there are my favourite posts over on the right, and if you plug a word in to the search box…
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links for 2008-07-29
FT Profit Up, Subs Flat, Confident On Ad Outlook| paidcontent:UK Non-paying registrations, of course, have tripled since the switch, from almost 150,000 to 500,000 at present – so FT.com isn’t converting many of these to paying subs but is trying to monetise them through other means, like direct marketing… (tags: financial-times revenue) Allen West: Politician…