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How Data Will Impact the Way We Do Business
nice piece from Josh. data's impact will be felt widely and broadly.
joshjones-dilworth  data  business  impact 
march 2010 by sogrady
My $62.47 Royalty Statement: How Major Labels Cook the Books with Digital Downloads - Major Labels - Gizmodo
"I agreed that was a big issue, but said I had more immediate and mundane concerns, such as the fact that Warner wouldn't even report my band's iTunes sales to me."
recordindustry  business  copyright  riaa  businessmodels  itunes  labels  bands  royalties 
december 2009 by sogrady
Turning a Failing Restaurant Around - BusinessWeek
give this guy a lot of credit: it's difficult to admit that your entire approach to a business is wrong, and adjust it.
restaurant  business  model  adjustments  learning  approach 
december 2008 by sogrady
Annals of Drinking: A Better Brew: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
"Elephants, like many of us, enjoy a good malted beverage when they can get it. At least twice in the past ten years, herds in India have stumbled upon barrels of rice beer, drained them with their trunks, and gone on drunken rampages. (The first time, they trampled four villagers; the second time they uprooted a pylon and electrocuted themselves.)" - great piece. sham they left out Harpoon, but an excellent read about the rise of microbrewing.
newyorker  microbrew  history  dogfishhead  culture  business  extreme  industry  hops  via:marcia 
november 2008 by sogrady
Can business save small towns? -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone
"Shawn Kirsch lives in a small town in North Dakota. He’s a 20-something technophile who cares deeply about the cutting edge of social media . . . but also about the rural community he calls home. In a series of recent blog posts, he’s been asking key questions about what’s next for his town and others like it." - an excellent question, and one that i think about a lot, given the fact that the majority of Maine's primary industries - with the exception of tourism - are either dead or dying. telecommuting factors in, certainly, but there need to be other local businesses to support that.
rural  business  economies  centralization 
october 2008 by sogrady
KnowTheMusicBiz.com - So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star - Then Listen Now To What I Say by Rob Miller
"Truthfully, it's a crapshoot that we'll even listen to it at all. It may sit in a box for two years, or it might only get noticed because of an obscure reference to Raising Arizona in the bio. Just the other day I opened a package that had nothing but a CD and a hand written note on a torn scrap of paper that said "Rocks" and a myspace address. Turns out it was just some Iowa Doom Metal, but still, I listened. Again, the maddening and endearing vagaries of the indie world. Don't let it get you down."
music  industry  business  davidrose  indie 
september 2008 by sogrady
On the Road - Business or Pleasure? More Are Choosing Both - NYTimes.com
“Business travelers are managing work-life balance,” he added. “One of the key things they’re doing is bringing family or friends along, or taking an extra day before or after” the business part of the trip.
business  travel  work  life  balance 
september 2008 by sogrady
Coding Horror: Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects?
"I'm absolutely dumbfounded to learn that contributing money isn't an effective way to advance an open source project. Surely money can't be totally useless to open source projects... can it?"
codinghorror  software  opensource  money  business 
august 2008 by sogrady
United Airlines to require minimum stays from Oct. - Yahoo! News
i told you people that United was awful, and you didn't believe me. how bout now?
united  airlines  minimumstay  scheduling  business  travel  fare  hikes 
june 2008 by sogrady
SpringSource Team Blog » Open Source, Open Strategy: The SpringSource Manifesto
"We are not changing and will not change the license of any existing project. The Spring Portfolio will remain under the Apache License. This covers the Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Web Flow and the rest of the Spring Portfolio."
spring  opensource  java  business  foss  licensing 
june 2008 by sogrady
The Waning Days of the Road Warrior
i should be so lucky. no one would be happier to see the demise of business travel than yours truly.
travel  business  collaboration  green  businessweek 
may 2008 by sogrady
Daring Fireball: Why Apple Won't Buy Adobe
interesting. i think some of these objections are questionable and less than tangible, but the point is well taken. still, think what Apple could do with unfettered access to Adobe's dev/designer community.
apple  adobe  software  business  johngruber 
may 2008 by sogrady
The day the music died [dive into mark]
yup. but according to the RIAA, DRM isn't dead, it's just resting.
music  drm  microsoft  apple  copyright  itunes  business  mp3 
may 2008 by sogrady
Coding Horror: We Don't Use Software That Costs Money Here
"The competitive pressure of free products on commercial tools intensifies every year. It's relentless. And to be honest, I feel many of the commercial alternatives aren't evolving fast enough to stay ahead of their free competition."
opensource  economics  business  free  software 
april 2008 by sogrady
A serious case of pulp friction - The Boston Globe
"The phone books still pile up, but have they outlived their usefulness?" - obviously yes.
advertising  business  culture  phone  recycling  waste  paper 
march 2008 by sogrady
Annals of Communications: The Search Party: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
“What kills a company is not competition but arrogance. We control our fate.” - Eric Schmidt
google  politics  business  management  advertising 
january 2008 by sogrady
When employees blog and comment off the farm at Churbuck.com
it's a difficult realization for every business, but the fact is they never had the control in the first place - it's just that we had inefficient distribution mechanisms.
control  business  blogging  davidchurbuck 
january 2008 by sogrady
Marketers: Experiment Like Google - Advertising Age - Digital
"Marketers who are doing best are trying, they're beta [testing] all over the place, they see what works and they build on that." - couldn't agree more. the shotgun approach is highly recommended in this day and age, though checked w/ metrics.
advertising  business  google  marketing  experimentation  via:david 
january 2008 by sogrady
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry
"In other words, the very development that wireless carriers feared for so long may prove to be exactly what they need. It took Steve Jobs to show them that." - a sad, but necessary observation of the state of mobile here in the US
iphone  apple  business  economics  at&t  carriers  innovation  businessmodels  via:adam 
january 2008 by sogrady
Under pressure from EMI, RIAA could disappear
"As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is in the middle of a major internal review of its operations." - an ephiphany, or a budget crisis?
riaa  music  emi  copyright  business  ifpi  economics 
january 2008 by sogrady
Seth's Blog: Music lessons
two words: a. men. why the music business thinks they deserve to continue business as they have previously is absolutely beyond me. as my Mom told us growing up, the "world doesn't owe you a living."
music  business  sethgodin  riaa  digital  economics  disruption  via:matt 
january 2008 by sogrady
RE: Deployment Cases
"Take a look at what has happened in the film industry...Every manufacturer of 35mm film has understood that digital would replace film in the consumer market...Virtually everyone in that business understands exactly what the story is." - ostriches, all
35mm  camera  film  business  strategy  planning  reinvention  disruption  via:bill 
january 2008 by sogrady
Fliers Fed Up? Airline Employees Feel the Same - New York Times
“I was on an Airbus yesterday that was extremely dirty. The headrests...were a grayish brown color. Several seats were ripped. The seat cushions had no cushion left. Are we the 99-cent store airline?” - a lot of the major carriers have this problem
airlines  business  travel  carriers  usairways  transparency  via:bob 
december 2007 by sogrady
MaineToday.com | News Update: Report: Maine's appeal is key to future
"As the rest of the country becomes more crowded and homogenous and polluted, what sets Maine apart — what makes Maine distinctive — our Quality of Place — becomes an ever more important economic asset" - while obvious, you have to start somewhere
maine  economy  tourism  qualityoflife  business  differentiation  state 
december 2007 by sogrady
PC World - The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America
AKA - the folks desperately trying to throttle useful innovation so that they are not compelled to adapt in any way, shape or form
business  copyright  culture  patents  technology  drm  via:randy 
december 2007 by sogrady
KnowTheMusicBiz.com - HOME
need to check this out in more detail, but it seems what Mr. Rose and co have put together is likely to be of interest for artists
business  community  marketing  music  research 
november 2007 by sogrady
The Observation Deck
Bryan's thoughts on the inclusion of DTrace into Leopard: worth reading, both for the technical perspective as well as the counter to the "shouldn't Sun be charging" arguments
dtrace  business  freesoftware  opensource  bryancantrill  apple  mac 
october 2007 by sogrady
Apple Worth More Than IBM. Seriously. on Epicenter
we'll see how long it lasts, but this might help the next time IBMers tell me they're not interested in consumer markets. for fun, BTW, check our MSFT's market cap.
apple  business  finance  ibm  marketcap  shareprice 
october 2007 by sogrady
United chief chases change -- chicagotribune.com
"While a la carte pricing is successful for some budget carriers, it could backfire for United if passengers feel like they're being forced to pay for something that was once free" - like, say, sitting in the exit row? still loathe United
united  airlines  business  via:chris 
october 2007 by sogrady
Daring Fireball: The Ringtones Racket
"The reason these relationships are rocky is that the executives running these companies are stubborn fools who are only willing to consider ways to keep things the way they were, and who hold their own customers in utter contempt."
apple  ringtones  economics  business  copyright  gruber 
september 2007 by sogrady
Early Retirement
my goal is to have this be relevant to my life
retirement  productivity  happiness  money  work  life  business  career 
august 2007 by sogrady
How to write with style
"Newspaper reporters...are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks...since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot...We call these revelations...elements of style." - amen
kurtvonnegut  advice  articles  book  business  creative  funny  writing  via:david 
july 2007 by sogrady
Michael Dolan Dot Com » Meme Games: 3x3 Lessons for Open Source Firms
excellent response from Michael on the open source business meme - thx for playing, sir ;)
michaeldolan  opensource  business  economics  meme 
june 2007 by sogrady
Jeff Barr’s Blog » Real to Virtual and Back: Matthew Ebel, Virtual Hot Wings, and His Posse - Musicians, Take Note
not quite as bullish on the opportunities within Second Life as Jeff is, principally b/c of volume questions, but undeniably this is an interesting use of the technology for the musician
secondlife  music  business  economics  distribution 
may 2007 by sogrady
Silly season [dive into mark]
" 'The web just got richer.' Well, somebody’s getting richer, but I doubt it’s gonna be the web."
markpilgrim  adobe  ajax  articles  blog  business  coding  control 
may 2007 by sogrady
Sam Ruby: Different Drummer
"A worst case scenario may very well be that, over time, increasingly more and more content gets rendered by a common plugin that is closed source and controlled by a single vendor."
business  freedom  html  microsoft  standards  w3c  web  silverlight 
may 2007 by sogrady
Seth's Blog: High resolution mistakes
"There are literally millions of bloggers that have become so focused on measurable traffic that they end up posting nonsense designed to do nothing but attract a Digg." - yup
godin  business  error  blogging  metrics 
february 2007 by sogrady
tecznotes
"The comments on Adrian's post ("microformats!" "semantic web!") reduce reporters to glorified UPS guys, waving their little hand-held journo-data-collectors around instead of asking insightful questions." - do not agree
holovaty  washingtonpost  migurski  via:Derek  journalism  data  analysis  business  intelligence 
january 2007 by sogrady
Middle managers are drowning - Business Filter - The Boston Globe
"middle managers are swamped by useless information and spend about a two hours a day looking for the data they need" - not a surprise, certainly, but good datapoint
information  drowning  management  business  intelligence  reporting 
january 2007 by sogrady
ANNOUNCEMENT: GNOME Foundation Director of Business Development
GNOME's looking for some biz dev help; if you've got the skills, this is a high profile project that could help you career - more importantly, you'd get to work w/ some very cool cats
gnome  business  development  hiring  enterprise  vendors 
november 2006 by sogrady
Once More unto the Breach: Startup Mechanics: Security, Responsibility, and Equanimity
"In a startup you need to be very comfortable constantly making decisions with less than perfect data that will fundamentally effect the course of a small company." - amen
business  startup  walli 
september 2006 by sogrady
Speaker City » Re: Will we see a billion dollar open source business?
interesting pushback - GOOG as the first billion dollar business. while that's not really what i meant when i spoke about open source businesses - it's why i left out players like IBM or Sun - it's a good point
goog  opensource  economics  billion  business  business-models 
july 2006 by sogrady
Free WiFi spawns cafe backlash
a natural problem given the rivalrous nature of the resources involved; for my part, i try to be a good patron of venues that offer free wireless, buying more water/etc than i might actually need
wireless  wifi  business  case  coffee  culture  free  internet  social  work  telecommute 
july 2006 by sogrady
Openlogic Piece rates for IT? no thanks!
thoughts from an Apache commiter on OpenLogic's open source patching strategy
openlogic  apache  opensource  support  service  business  models 
may 2006 by sogrady
NewsForge | The right way to run a Wi-Fi cafe
someone remind me to send this over to the folks at the Supper Club
supper  club  denver  wifi  cafe  coffee  shop  restaurant  business  model  innovation 
may 2006 by sogrady
Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation : HBS Working Knowledge
"Most companies have it all wrong. They don't have to motivate their employees. They have to stop demotivating them."
business  motivation  productivity  professional  workplace 
april 2006 by sogrady
FON: WiFi everywhere!
seems pretty cool - it's a friend of Miguel's running this
deicaza  broadband  business  community  free  hotspot  p2p  sharing  commons  wifi  fon 
february 2006 by sogrady
Networking Pipeline | Blog | Google: We Won't Pay Broadband Cyberextortion
love to see Verizon/Bell South explain that to their customers; "you don't have free access to the entire internet because we can't get paid at both ends - sorry"
verizon  bellsouth  broadband  google  economics  emerging  business 
january 2006 by sogrady
The Two Things
great anecdote about simplifying a given discipline down to two essential elements (via Dave)
twothings  useful  writing  business  simplicity  culture  humor 
november 2005 by sogrady
Once More unto the Breach: MSFT will not be Trading in Ten Years
for the record, i was one of the folks involved in this conversation, and while i agree with many of the points i bet the opposite. i'll claim that dinner yet :)
walli  microsoft  opendocument  openoffice  economics  innovation  business 
november 2005 by sogrady
Once More unto the Breach: The Open Source Investment Bubble
Senor Walli on the prospects for the current crop of open source funded companies
walli  bubble  business  vc  opensource 
november 2005 by sogrady
Joel on Software - Tuesday, October 25, 2005
interesting thoughts from Joel on the eBay/Skype deal; worth reading
skype  eBay  capitalism  business  mba  programming  software  market  google  microsoft  yahoo 
october 2005 by sogrady
Ted Leung on the air
some excellent info sharing from Ted vis a vis communities and open source
business  opensource  social 
october 2005 by sogrady
Official Google Blog: About Google.org
Google's caught some flack for this, but i personally applaud it just as i do when Patagonia does the same thing; bit of a difference between the revenues for Google and Patagonia, too
business  capitalism  google  philanthropy  1%  patagonia 
october 2005 by sogrady
Computerworld | Sun's software chief eyes databases, groupware
even more interesting interview with Loiacono: Postgres? Sunbird? fascinating (via Ben)
loiacono  sun  postgres  databases  business  jes  sunbird  messaging  collaboration  calendar 
october 2005 by sogrady
Open Source: Now It's an Ecosystem
this is at once encouraging and worrisome; i imagine Asay will have something to say on the latter point eventually
business  linux  opensource  software  vc  ecosystem  community 
october 2005 by sogrady
The Long Tail: The Long Tail of software (part 2)
great post on the Lont Tail of software - couldn't agree more
business  marketing  software  web2.0  longtail 
september 2005 by sogrady
Nivi : Ebay Buys Six Apart
interesting post on Ebay/Skype; can't say i agree with it, but it's interesting
e  eBay  skype  voip  business  closed  system  customers 
september 2005 by sogrady
Linux Inc.
BusinessWeek look at Linux history and future
linux  business  opensource 
january 2005 by sogrady

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