AOL has a new logo. That’s some fun flare. With a new lease on life, having begun the process of spinning off from Time Warner, the staple in online destinations is marking its new beginnings with some new designs
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AOL: New Logo, New Lease on Life.
Readers were in the mood for maps this week because they pushed this story about a must-see video of Microsoft’s Street Slide into the most-viewed category.
There are times when a book is the right way to go, and other times when an audiobook is what will make it all work out. I received When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man (amazon affiliate link) from Hachette Audio, and I’m so glad I did
A few months back, we wrote a bit about Matt Ridley’s new book called The Rational Optimist . I still haven’t had a chance to read the book, but reader sehlat points us to an essay that Ridley has written for Reason Magazine that is adapted from the book, which is an absolute must read, on how innovation occurs .
One of the key points we tried to hammer home at our Techdirt Saves* Journalism event in June was the importance of realizing that news organizations are really in the business of building community . So many in the news business focus on the belief that they’re in the “news” business, but that’s never really been the case. The news has always been the piece that brings together a community (and the business of a news organization has usually been to then sell that community’s attention to advertisers)
While Nintendo managed to lose a cool $290 million USD this past quarter (for very good reasons ), its one-time rival Sega actually managed to have a showing in the black. More
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