Venkatesh Rao on how to (survive as an) Idea Person. That is not something you choose. It is a condition you have to manage, like diabetes, once you recognize it... If you are an idea person, chances are extraordinarily high that you will die without having had any impact whatsoever on the world, because of the demand/supply economics of ideas that I’ll cover later. So you have to develop the right philosophical attitude (hint: Sisyphean), which I’ll cover in the treatment/management section. (more)

I think it's interesting how quickly the idea of depositing a check by uploading a picture of it (taken with your Smart Phone Digital Camera) has been executed by Retail Bank-s. (more)

The last line of the book Finite And Infinite Games. (more)

Number Two Son is on the school Chess Club. So I asked the "coach" what Chess Software to use...

Steve Martile summarizes T Harv Eker's JARS Financial Planning system from The Millionaire Mind. * All of our accounts are electronic savings accounts with our necessity (NEC) account being the only exception; it’s a checking account. Trisha and I deposit all of our personal income into our necessity account. The money in our necessity account pays for all of our expenses. The remaining money is distributed into five other accounts.*

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What software is recommended? (more)

aka Consumer Bank, Savings And Loan

John Robb posits that Friction Free Globalization leads to Moral decay.

Douglas Rushkoff on Tommy Pollatta's CollapsUs project and Trans Media platform plans. His new form, what he's calling 'transmedia,' is basically Documentary mixed with narrative branching off into Video Game-s and Social Networking. If MafiaWars had been invented for good instead of, well, I'm-not-sure-what, it may have been able to leverage some of what Lammotta is hoping to put into the service of Peak Oil and Energy Policy.

Luke Wroblewski on the increase in conversion (registrations) for Twitter driven by "gradual engagement" (making it easier to get started). (I call that Incremental Profiling...) (more)

The String Cheese Incident is battling Ticket Master. Pearl Jam couldn't take Ticketmaster on in court because it didn't have its own ticketing company. But the String Cheese Incident does, and in August the Colorado-based jam band filed an antitrust suit in federal court, alleging that Ticketmaster has used its exclusive deals - and colluded with another ticket dealer - to foreclose competition, to keep service charges high, and to interfere with other ticketing companies, all violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act... String Cheese Incident and its ancillary concerns comprise an entertainment mini-conglomerate big enough to nearly fill a two-story office building in Boulder Co. (more)

Python Gui Framework. (more)

WebLog update tracker. A great service if you don't want to deal with a full RssAggregator like Blog Lines. (more)

Tim Bray gives 10 theses on Tablet-s, given his use of the 7" Galaxy Tab and a little of the IPad. I was one of those who, when the iPad arrived, dissed it as a consume-only platform, saying: For Creative people, this device is nothing. Clearly, I was at least partially wrong.

Monopoly holder in Live Event Ticket Seller. (more)

FourSquare had a big outage. MongoDb was the issue. Luckily no data loss.

Going beyond the Story Telling we associate with a LifeBox to Measurement with Structured Data (or at least Semi Structured Data), we get PersonalInformatics. (more)

dead book author (more)

I keep feeling like I should read some James Joyce or David Foster Wallace books, but fear being sucked into a book that's slow/painful but that I can't abandon...