January 2011
20 posts
“And Tristan Walker, director of business development, hounded Crowley daily via...”
– This type of hustle is inspiring.
(via Mashable)
The Great Afghan Bank Heist →
newyorker:
Poring over stacks of documents, investigators at the American Embassy in Kabul have pinpointed dozens of instances in which Kabul Bank executives may have bribed Afghan officials, including a successful bid to hold the contract to process the salaries that the government pays its employees each month—approximately seventy-five million dollars. Access to the salaries would give bank...
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...”
– Winston Churchill (via bmconry)
This is key if you want to win in ad sales.
(via evangotlib)
“Her food can be astonishing. Take a dish the menu tartly calls chorizo stuffed...”
– I guess I should’ve gone to John Dory Oyster Bar before the NY Times review.
(Sifton)
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“Some ambitious apparatchiks in southern China want to combine 9 cities to create...”
– ATTN: @hatethefuture, this one’s for you.
(via Time NewsFeed)
WatchThe Wrinkles of the City - Shanghai 2010 by JR.
(via Wooster Collective)
“Think about the worse thing that can happen to you, whatever that might be …....”
– Nick Mangold on the final PIT 3rd down conversion - TheJetsBlog (via sportsnetny)
Sounds about right.
Two spaces after a period: Why you should never,... →
adamiss:
Took me 18 months to get out of the habit.
This just blew my mind. I’m open to change, but I don’t know. It’s just going to be really hard…
“I’m assuming that the internal yield optimization team at Engadget/AOL...”
– From Darren Herman’s reaction to Real Blogs Don’t Buy Ads on Google on TechCrunch.
Completely agree with Darren on this. Every media outlet across all media types is in the customer acquisition game. The New York Times advertises on local TV. CBS advertises its own primetime shows in...
tpdsaa:
I like it.
“There are about 40 million tech buyers online each month, and 85 percent of them...”
– Interesting article about Ziff-Davis’ digital strategy in 2011. A counter argument to this strategy is that Ziff-Davis’ sites are not garnering high enough CPMs to warrant a profitable direct sales strategy with an upward trajectory so they’re forced to farm out their data to...