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Romney mocks Gore for non-existent private jet. 
Brad via Think Progress on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
Last night, at the Republican National Convention, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) called for “the immediate drilling for more oil off of our shores” and followed with a personal attack on Vice President Al Gore that received thunderous applause:
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Vote for my SXSWi 2009 Panel!
Brad via Brad Garland.net on Sat, 23 Aug. 2008
I’ve been going to SXSWi for the past three years and it is definitely one of the best conferences I go to every year and was probably one of the biggest influences on me as far as seeing the potential of the Web and this whole social media thing and I’ve always wondered if I would ever make the jump from participants to speaker. So I’m trying my luck f
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Random thoughts on social apps from F8
brad via BradPace.com on Sat, 09 Aug. 2008
So a few weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend the Facebook F8 developers conference. Last week I was gone to boy scout camp and this has been a very busy week. So this is the first chance I have had to blog about it. I feel that the company needs to get something out of sending me to a conference like this so I like to get my thoughts down on my blog (don’t know if anyone ac
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Spam Volumes 2008
Brad via ORCS Web Blogs on Thu, 24 Jul. 2008
Just over a year ago I blogged about the huge volumes of spam that we report on (and either block or tag for our customers). At that time the amount of legitimate email - of many millions of emails we deal with - was right around 17% (83% spam!). Well, it's a year later now and I thought I give an update. The percentage of email that is spam has grown from the 83% last year to an ama
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Meetup - The Original Web Meets World Company
brad via Union Square Ventures: A New Y on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Something is changing on the web. We have lost some of the giddy enthusiasm that has surrounded the web since 2004. It was then that Tim O’Reilly defined Web 2.0 as a platform that leveraged collective intelligence. There is still a ton of interest this idea, but many of the recent conversations we have had about the web are colored by concern.
Though it is not often stated, I think
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McCain spokesperson lies: Katrina and Rita ‘didn’t spill a drop’ of oil.
Brad via Think Progress on Tue, 15 Jul. 2008
This afternoon, Nancy Pfotenhauer, senior energy adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and a lobbyist for Koch Industries, lied to MSNBC’s David Schuster, claiming, “We withstood Hurricanes Rita and Katrina and didn’t spill a drop.” She said:
When Senator McCain opposed lifting the ban in the past, it was because there were concerns about environmental capability. Like,
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Brad Sucks - Fake It (ending)
Brad via Brad Sucks on Sat, 12 Jul. 2008
Haven’t gotten too many submissions for the Fake It cliche video yet, but this one from Einar is awesome:
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Fake It single & video project
Brad via Brad Sucks on Mon, 07 Jul. 2008
Here’s a pre-release single off Out of It:
Fake It [MP3]
Also: I’m looking for help making the most cliché music video ever for it. Help!
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Internet for Everyone
brad via Union Square Ventures: A New Y on Tue, 24 Jun. 2008
This morning Union Square Ventures endorsed an initiative called Internet for Everyone. This group does not sponsor specific policies or legislation. Rather, it hopes to build broad popular support for a few basic principles, that hopefully will guide policy choices over the next few years.
Internet for Everyone's principles are:
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Sharing Banktastic with the World
brad via The Garland Group Blog on Wed, 18 Jun. 2008
"Do you have a sample policy we can have?"
"Who would you recommend for managed security?"
"What is the best way to build a technology steering committee?"
These are questions we get quite often and we feel comfortable answering, but there are LOTS of other questions that we have no clue about. Human Resources, Construction regulatory requirements, the list goes on...
As
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Shifting the media paradigm
Brad via "brad garland" - Goo on Tue, 17 Jun. 2008
I don’t golf. I don’t golf because I know how I am with other things I love. 100%. Full bore. Entrenched. And I just fear the money and time drain that golf could add to my life. However, I love a good competition and this past Sunday ...
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Is Green U.S. Transit a whopping myth?
brad via Brad Ideas on Tue, 10 Jun. 2008
As part of my research into robotic cars, I’ve been studying the energy efficiency of transit. What I found shocked me, because it turns out that in the USA, our transit systems aren’t green at all. Several of the modes, such as buses, as well as the light rail and subway systems of most towns, consume more energy per passenger-mile than cars do, when averaged out. The better
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The Weird Economics of Information
brad via Union Square Ventures: A New Y on Mon, 02 Jun. 2008
Several months ago I ventured into the spooky economics of information with a post that suggested that data had an increasing marginal utility. A number of folks like Albert, who know a whole lot more about economics than I do, argue that it was not exactly an increasing marginal utility, but they acknowledged that th
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Pinch Media - Investing on a New Platform
brad via Union Square Ventures: A New Y on Thu, 29 May. 2008
New platforms create new opportunities. One would think that established vendors with big balance sheets, big investments in R&D, and established brands would quickly move onto a meaningful new platform, using their market power to prevent new entrants from creating a defensible beachhead there. But, that rarely seems to happen. More often, the winners are agile young companies who exploit
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Fat dinosaurs
Brad via Brad Sucks on Sat, 24 May. 2008
My friend Allen is working on a tasteful and mysterious series called “Fat Dinosaurs“. I drew this to win his respect:
We’ll see if it wo
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Data Hosting pros and cons
brad via Brad Ideas on Thu, 22 May. 2008
Recently, I wrote about data hosting, an architecture where applications come to the data rather than copying your personal data to all the applications.
Let me examine some more of the pros and cons of this approach:
The biggest con is that it does make things harder for application developers. The grea
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Wesabe Steps Out
brad via Union Square Ventures: A New Y on Thu, 24 Apr. 2008
Over a year ago when we first started thinking about personal financial management tools on the web, I had this OMG moment when I realized that a web based personal financial management service was going to be way more disruptive than just putting Quicken on the web. It was immediately obvious that the data buried inside everyone’s personal spending patterns could be an incredibly important
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Snatch the Ruby from my Hand Grasshopper
brad via Cleveland Web Design - Brad Co on Thu, 24 Apr. 2008
The next Cleveland Web Standard’s Association meeting is coming up on Tuesday May 6th. Joe Fiorini will be giving a presentation on basic programming for non programmers (translation: people like me). Joe is going to cover the basics using Ruby on Rails examples, I’m looking forward to the presentation
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AB Meta
brad via Union Square Ventures: A New Y on Tue, 22 Apr. 2008
Over the last two years, our portfolio company Adaptive Blue has become known for its ability to automatically recognize things like books, movies, stocks, and wines on the web. By using semantic analysis to figure out the difference between The Da Vinci Code, the book and The Da Vinci Code, the movie, they are able to provide useful shortcuts that acc
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CSS Off files for April
brad via Cleveland Web Design - Brad Co on Fri, 11 Apr. 2008
Last weekend was the CSS Off, where front end designer/developers have 24 hours to slice up a design into crisp and clean html. Judging is getting underway and we got some pretty sweet submissions. I designed the comp for the contest so it’s only fitting that I post the working PSD here
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