".. if I’m going to spend money on you, whether it’s to sponsor your trip to SXSW, or buy an ad on your blog, or even give you miles to fly somewhere to do something, I’d better be getting something out of it, and strictly from a business perspective, it’d better be worth more than I’m putting into it."

"For me it tends to be more a matter of finding the links between things. I need to fill out my knowledge of Prague, 1949, or the Elizabethan prose writers, or the cross-migration between New York newspapers and Hollywood in the '20s and '30s. I buy every book I see about Gypsies, and most firsthand accounts of vaudeville, and almost everything by lesser-known New Yorker writers of the old regime. I'm always on the lookout for memoirs -- frequently by the less-than-famous -- that supply concrete details of daily life, rather than simply lists of names or dates of parties or, heaven forfend, litanies of traumas. I like books published before 1940 that are illustrated with photographs; even if those are frequently small and murky, they are rare windows into the past. Books help me construct whole worlds in my mind, and I require an army of books to complete the picture, not that it's ever truly complete."

"You can't directly control where your thoughts drift. If you're controlling them, they're not drifting. But you can control them indirectly, by controlling what situations you let yourself get into. That has been the lesson for me: be careful what you let become critical to you. Try to get yourself into situations where the most urgent problems are ones you want think about."

Preliminary list of panels, including Future of Context, Indirect Collaboration, Process Journalism. Looks like another must-attend year.

"Do whatever's best for your users. You can hold onto this like a rope in a hurricane, and it will save you if anything can. Follow it and it will take you through everything you need to do."

"minimal web design = maximal impact."

NHL expands its advanced media offerings with live streaming video that's "TV quality," access to full archived video, and a real-time data feed. Lots of ideas in there for racing to emulate!

"The key to trust today, in any of these arenas, is openness and transparency. Hiding from the world is no way to get there."

Lectures in Dumbo, hosted by Melville House

"Our design process should reflect the trend towards user participation that we’re seeing on the web. People’s tolerance for improvisation is increasing and our role as framework providers should reflect that."

Killer resources for entrepreneurs

"I’d go so far as to say that the majority of the Web design field, by and large, is too easily motivated by technique, that the majority of us are thinking tactically far more often than we’re thinking strategically."

"What's offered is qualitative analysis of search results through more intelligent filtering than is available in any other tool I know of."