BG Linkdump.: Archive

March 2011

31 posts

"Mad Men": A Postseason Retrospective → hnn.us

Mar 17, 2011

Making Money | Small Business Advice from Jason Fried of Inc.com → inc.com

Wonderful read.

Mar 17, 2011

10 Unusual Things I Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs Altucher Confidential → jamesaltucher.com

Mar 17, 2011

How To Split A Check At A Restaurant | The Awl → theawl.com

Mar 17, 2011

“Susan is right, that “lawyers come in all shapes and sizes and flavors,” but they’re not all “real lawyers” as far as being honest with the public, and with themselves. If their alternative paths are not harmful and do not detract from the ability to serve their clients, then take pride in your path. Admit it happily and readily. Promote it. Own it. If you hide it, conceal it, lie about it, pretend that it doesn’t exist, then you’re not a “real lawyer.” Real lawyers practice law. Real lawyers are honest about what they do and the consequences for clients. Real lawyers are not ashamed of the choices they make. Real lawyers do not deceive themselves or their clients. Real lawyers are not liars. Real lawyers do not hide in the choir of others who share their misgivings about taking alternate paths. Real lawyers are not enablers or apologists of such deception.” —Simple Justice: The Truthiness About Real Lawyers

Mar 17, 2011

“At this point we could make the jump that HBGary was a single bad apple, operating on the other side of the ethical line all on its own, but we would be wrong.” —Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Mar 15, 2011

U.S. District Court Judge David S. Doty: The Man Who Holds Football By The Balls → abovethelaw.com

Mar 14, 2011

“No advice helps. You can’t meditate. You can’t exercise. You can’t eat healthy. You can’t shave. Or bathe. You can’t even take deep breaths. They feel like bullshit breaths. Shit breathes in and shit breathes out. You can’t pray or read spiritual texts. None of that stuff helps, you think. None of that immediately deposits money in the bank. None of that brings back your self-esteem which was so randomly stolen from you by faceless bureaucats living on the outskirts of cubicles.” —10 Things You Need To Do If You Were Just Fired | Lifehacker Australia

Mar 14, 2011

“Why not? Because there was essentially no upside to contributing briefs, but there was the potential for dramatic downside. If you added a great brief to the database, no one would call to praise you or circulate a memo to others explaining that you produced top-notch work. But the opposite was not necessarily true. Suppose you added a brief that overlooked or misstated a legal proposition. Later lawyers reviewing your work would notice the error and might not be kind. You would actually like the later lawyer to remove the bad brief from the system, but you couldn’t be sure that the repercussions would end there. The later reader might tell others that your work wasn’t any good or might circulate your bad brief to others within the firm, with a cover note pointing out the mistake. Reasonable people did the reasonable calculus: Few lawyers designated briefs for the brief bank.” —Inside Straight: Corporate Discussion Boards And Blogs

Mar 14, 2011

Is Britain’s Government Too Close to Google? → gigaom.com

Mar 14, 2011

Small Firms, Big Lawyers: 7 Reasons to Avoid Social Media → abovethelaw.com

Mar 14, 2011

Jaime Derringer: Top Ten Beautiful Reusable Water Bottles (PHOTOS) → huffingtonpost.com

Mar 14, 2011

Mar 13, 2011

20 Blogs and Twitter Accounts Every Entrepreneur Should Follow | Under30CEO → under30ceo.com

Mar 13, 2011

Google Applies Algorithms to Good Management Skills → nytimes.com

Mar 12, 2011

Mar 4, 201137 notes

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What he actually said was “We stand a pretty good chance of being competitive in this market.” But how else can I interpret his declaration of 2011 as “the year of the copycats,” amid a sea of logos of Android tablet makers?

Or the slide boasting 65,000 iPad-tuned apps, immediately followed by another one showing the mere 100 tablet apps available for Android? Or the stat that Apple has paid out two billion dollars in revenue to iOS developers; that the iTunes Store had 200,000,000 individual users with credit cards on file; that Random House had begun offering their digital catalogue in the iBookstore (they were the last holdout among the heavyweights); or that Apple sold 15 million iPads in just three-quarters of 2010 and now makes the majority of its money off of the iPad and other “post-PC devices”?

” —Apple iPad 2 is here and tablet rivals need to hit the drawing board - Chicago Sun-Times

Mar 4, 2011