markpasc + business   9

potlatch: the economic sociology of receipts
“Maybe there are some Costa customers who take comfort in the fact that their coffee at 10.21 06:09:2009 is a matter of record, not because it is an alibi for a crime or because it is tax deductible, but because it is something to cling to.”
uk  business  bowling_alone  ★★★★ 
october 2009 by markpasc
Subtraction.com: The Living Room Problem
“The crazy thing is that I’d bet that right now, today, we have the right technology smarts and certainly the right design smarts to solve [the media center] problem. But the missing leg of the stool, a rational, user-focused business model, is still sorely missing.”
media_center  media  content  business  ★★★★  design 
july 2009 by markpasc
InterActiveCorp buys College Humor boys - Valleywag
now have the funding to perform leading-edge research to make Busted Tees even less funny
humor  business  internets  bustedtees 
august 2006 by markpasc
Google Groups: rec.arts.sf.fandom: "Who Killed the Electric Car?" opens July 14th
"Some facts about the EV1, the research and development of which was produced by _my_ division of GM, Hughes Electronics..." via reddit
electric_car  its_on_the_internet_so_it_must_be_true  business  environment 
july 2006 by markpasc
Businesspundit: My First Lessons in Business: What Flipping Burgers Taught Me About The Importance of Good People
"I guess the other employees didn't want to show they could handle shift manager responsibilities until they got paid shift manager wages."
business  lessons  work  job 
may 2006 by markpasc

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