Author Archives: Ruben Kenig

Attribution Matters

The imaginary band album cover game has come back up on Facebook, perhaps it never really went away. It’s a chance operation game where you, Find a bandname via the Wikipedia random article function. The article title is the bandname. Find an album title via The Quotations Page random quotations page. The last three to five words of the […]

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Two Cultures Clash

Two recent events in the world of technology and the internet serve to bring into relief the divergence between two ways of viewing the development of technology in general, the refusal of GoogleVoice apps by the iPhone App Store and the grant of a patent to VoloMedia for “providing episodic media” which seems to mean podcasting. […]

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Ideas are like piles, sooner or later every a**ehole gets them

Ideas are just a starting point. The real trick is taking an idea and making it happen as well as possible. Derek Sivers defines ideas as a multiplier and I think that’s a useful way to look at it. He even gives some definition to the values with a so-so idea worth half as much as a good idea and that […]

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