Rambles at starchamber.com

The 5K Challenge is back, and the final results have been tallied. The rules specify that you get no more than 5 kilobytes worth of web page to make whatever you want. As they say at the site:
The idea behind the contest is that the rigid constraints of designing for the web are what [...]

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This is a good example of something that would not have happened before the web: Steve Silverman is a science teacher who happens to publish a site called Useless Information. I found it because I’m a fan of P.T. Barnum, and Silverman has a nice page about phrases P. T. Barnum was added to the [...]

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Salon has a great piece this week about abandoned domain names: I come to bury IAmCarbonatedMilk.com, not to praise it. A site called Deleted Domains will tell you about domain names that are no longer being paid for, and therefore are being returned for public consumption. Go look at the Deleted Domains site… it’s hysterical. [...]

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Glog ahoy! My friend Nabeel is always telling me about cool software and web sites. So much so that I finally said “You need to get yourself a blog.” Here’s what he said:

“I just don’t think I’m cool enough to have a blog [He's just being modest. He's almost certainly cool enough. -Ed.]. In [...]

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Are you smart? Do you work with people who are smarter than you? Malcolm Gladwell has written a fascinating piece for the New Yorker called The Talent Myth in which he discusses the smarty-pants phenomenon and the trouble it has gotten us into. Here is the premise: Enron (and others like it) went down the [...]

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This just in: my top secret contact inside in the music industry pointed me to a National Record Buyers Study (the presentation slides are here) published by Edison Research that shows in the most alarming and emphatic way that it Really Is That Bad for the music business.

There’s no longer any debate about that [...]

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