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    Brewer
    Jul 28 11:24 AM
    Comscore's Top 50 Websites for June; Travel & Leisure Categories Gain [view article]
    You think the MSFT visitors were looking to BUY something or FIX something? :-) Reply
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    omerpelman
    Jul 20 12:05 PM
    Internet Content in Crisis: Are We Becoming Mental Grasshoppers? [view article]
    hi michael :) look forward to seeing you at tali's wedding!
    omer     Reply
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    Scott Berry
    Jul 08 06:34 PM
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    Internet Content in Crisis: Are We Becoming Mental Grasshoppers? [view article]
    Couldn't resist here. Individual people don't "evolve" to cope with anything, at least not in a Darwinian sense. But the misconception that we do is exactly the kind of thing an absence of deep thinking and rigorous evaluation can lead to.

    I disagree with much of the "google..stupid&q... article. If people are losing their ability to concentrate and focus because of information snacking, then go read a few books instead. It'll come back, just as exercise and diet will overcome a habit of poor nutritional snacking.

    It's clearly a change in the way (much) of the world operates. The key is to understand the new environment, and adapt to how *other* people are changing.     Reply
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    GregY
    Jul 07 11:40 AM
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    Internet Content in Crisis: Are We Becoming Mental Grasshoppers? [view article]
    There is in article in last month "Atlantic Monthly" which is called "Does Google makes us stupid?". I will not provide the link, the "old school", so those who complain about speed of change, have time to catch up. It is a change, and whenever there is a change, there are people who question it and complain about it. Some turn to external sources to deal with it (drugs, protests, etc.) and some get more focused, mentally disciplined and evolve yet again, as Darwin proposed. Reply
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    Tom B
    Jul 07 08:51 AM
    Internet Content in Crisis: Are We Becoming Mental Grasshoppers? [view article]
    The increasing speed of change is much bigger problem than allegedly shortening attention spans. I am in a highly specialized technical field. It took me years to learn. When I started, DIFFERENT fields were considered "hot'. Having done my job a long time, my field *may* be in decline. There is mis-match between human time scales and the pace of change. What will work look like in 20 years? Automation is increasing. People are trying to outsource higher-end jobs to the 3rd world, but the 3rd world will never have a US-style life-style, because global resources are limited. We we learn to greatly extend life span, as Ray Kurzweil hopes? Will we turn to mental enhancement techniques-- drugs, meditation, brain/computer interfaces? Reply
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    fxtrader07
    Jul 07 05:33 AM
    Internet Content in Crisis: Are We Becoming Mental Grasshoppers? [view article]
    great short article on the counter-productivity of the information flood and the internet. the modern media and communication facilities make us all so more procutive, don't they? Yes and No. They speed up things but very often at the expense of quality. Often things get taken unchecked and unquestioned leading to the blind copying of ideas and inputs and to a herd-mentality of thinking, arguing and vision. Strictly limitingand constantly monitoring and controlling one's moves through the jungles of information and mis-information, of facts, fiction, deception and information overkill will be more essential then ever. Reply
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    bluesmoke
    Jul 06 10:43 AM
    Internet Content in Crisis: Are We Becoming Mental Grasshoppers? [view article]
    The world of information, and indeed life, is speeding up. It's like flying an airplane and there's no time to read all the gauges. People get caught up in the exhilaration of the experience. I have found I do my best thinking in the middle of the night, when I'm in bed and my brain has time to process it all! Reply
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    mollytjm
    Jun 12 10:30 AM
    eBay App Coming to iPhone [view article]
    not all ebay users buy baseball cards. major zoos...and i know, i buy for one of them, get great, afforable artifacts and materials on ebay. i love the iphone, so i'm happy with any improvement and this one is welcome. Reply
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    TanToday
    Jun 11 05:28 PM
    eBay App Coming to iPhone [view article]
    Yawn.

    If you can run Safari, which the OLD one did just fine, you got EBAY already.

    I don't see the Ebay thing as anything more than a niche for the junkies that love to sell and buy used baseball cards.

    What do you need a DEDICATED app, to do what you can do today, that works fine, and adds really nothing to the process?

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    danwaywff
    May 17 09:48 AM
    Berkshire Hathaway Should Buy CBS [view article]
    I think the Berkshire team would find CBS' business too difficult to understand and quantify for their taste. Reply
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    FilthyLucre
    May 17 09:03 AM
    Berkshire Hathaway Should Buy CBS [view article]
    A splendid concept! I like the idea of Buffet entering into the media fray. Reply
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    bawast
    May 16 09:42 AM
    Berkshire Hathaway Should Buy CBS [view article]
    Sumner Redstone controls CBS, is a promoter, and likely would demand a large premium. Because CBS cash flows predominately stem from its TV and Radio broadcast properties - both of which are seeing audiences declining at an accelerating rate - those cash flows arent likely to grow - or even stabilize - for years. Yes, they are helped every couple of years by political or superbowl ad revenues, but the trend is still down. Reply
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    tedstr
    May 16 08:25 AM
    CBS and CNET: Vision, or Desperation? [view article]
    Old media content cos love new media content cos. Feels comfortable. Feels like you can replicate your old world experience in the new world. You can't. Virtually all of the old world media companies are being defensive in these aquisitions. They are looking for synergies and ways to defend their old market positions instead of building new businesses in the new world and embracing the future. The old organizations are so full of fiefdoms that simply want to bury the new to perpetuate the old, survival becomes impossible. CNET will get diminished or destroyed the same way CBS abandoned Marketwatch, Healthwatch, Sportsline, NBC-Zoom (and currently iVillage). Inforseek was at one time the #4 largest portal on the web...unitl ABC bought it. The cable MSOs obliterated $ 4 Bil in market cap in Excite@Home. The landscape is littered with these old media/new media failures.

    Old media companies have a terrible history or doing any kind of diversification.     Reply
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    wtmerge
    May 15 10:25 PM
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    Why CBS Bought CNET, Rather Than Vice Versa [view article]
    Information on the acquisition of CNET
    www.willtheymerge.com/...     Reply
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    Richard
    Schweitzer
    May 15 12:58 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    There is more to the "Empire State" picture and that is relocation. NY is not a good state to be in; and, as people said of Ark. during the depression, "It's a good state to be FROM." Reply
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