rn Higher Ed: Be Grateful For The Frustration That Can Come With Learning. You’ll Learn From That, Too. By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:00:31 +0000 “Thank you” may not always be the words that come to mind when struggling through a difficult lesson or dealing with a mountain of homework in school. But in this episode of KUT’s podcast “Higher Ed,” Southwestern University President Dr. Ed Burger and KUT’s Jennifer Stayton discuss the role that gratitude can play in learning... Full Article Higher Ed Dr. Ed Burger education gratitude school Thanks
rn Higher Ed: Learning From Failure (And Then Letting It Go) By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Sun, 08 Dec 2019 12:00:38 +0000 In the very first episode of KUT’s podcast “Higher Ed,” Southwestern University President Dr. Ed Burger and KUT’s Jennifer Stayton talked about the importance of failure to learning. Has any thinking changed about that concept in the past five years? Ed says he has greater clarity now than he had five years ago about one... Full Article Higher Ed Dr. Ed Burger education Failing failure learn learning school
rn Higher Ed: Holding On Tight Is Easier Than Letting Go. Why We Need To Learn How To Do Both Well. By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 12:00:23 +0000 As Dr. Ed Burger prepares to leave Southwestern University to become President and Chief Executive Officer of St. David’s Foundation in Austin, Texas, he and KUT’s Jennifer Stayton discuss the art of letting go, as they wrap up the KUT podcast “Higher Ed.” Ed says “letting go” in the workplace starts with a pretty straightforward... Full Article Higher Ed Dr. Ed Burger education letting go school
rn monome’s alternative musical world: a hands-on creative expedition with norns and grid By cdm.link Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:35:29 +0000 It's a rarified way of making music - the ultra-minimal monome grid and norns open music platform. But what is it really about? We turn to reviewer Andreas Roman to find out. The post monome’s alternative musical world: a hands-on creative expedition with norns and grid appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music. Full Article DIY + Unusual Gear Music tech Stories Tech code Community experimental free as in freedom Linux monome monome grid MPE
rn Jay Som - Tenderness By beta.prx.org Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:00:00 -0000 Melina Duterte goes by the name Jay Som. She’s a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. She’s released three albums as Jay Som, and has produced, engineered, and mixed each one. Her third album, Anak Ko, came out in August 2019. And in this episode, Melina breaks down a song from it called “Tenderness.” songexploder.net/jay-som Full Article Entertainment Music Society & Culture
rn Learning to Cry By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:00:00 GMT Average reading time is about 5 minutesAn Amazing Fact: Studies show that women cry 30 to 60 times a year, while men cry 6 to 17 times per year. However, there is no difference between genders until adolescence, indicating that emotional tears are a learned response. Another study showed that infants pick up cues about how to cry from their parents’ language: French infants tend to wail with a rising pitch, while German infants cry with a falling pitch.After viewing the abominations of the city of Jerusalem, Ezekiel sees six men with weapons come into the temple, one of whom also carries a writer’s inkhorn. The Lord instructs this man to put a mark on “the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations” in the city (Ezekiel 9:4). He then instructs the other five to follow behind and kill everyone who isn’t given the mark. This idea—that God’s people mourn over the sins of others—is repeated throughout Scripture. The Psalmist records, “Rivers of water run down from my eyes, Because men do not keep Your law” (Psalm 119:136). Jeremiah, expecting the people might not turn from their wickedness, said, “My soul will weep in secret for your pride; My eyes will weep bitterly And run down with tears, Because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive” (Jeremiah 13:17). The reason for these holy tears is twofold: Not only has God’s law been violated, but the sinners will soon suffer the consequences. When Jesus wept over Jerusalem, this was His lament: “If you had known … the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you” (Luke 19:42, 43). Jesus was mourning that His people refused to know Him and that they would soon suffer the consequences of rejecting Him. Ultimately, Jesus wants His followers to learn to make His tears for His people their own.KEY BIBLE TEXTSMine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. Lamentations 3:48Browse our site: AFTV | Free Book Library | Free Online Bible SchoolWas this email forwarded to you?Click here to get your own free subscription! Full Article
rn 264: ‘Apple Is Not a 4-Star Company’, With Joanna Stern By daringfireball.net Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:35:04 EDT Very special guest Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s event earlier this month, the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro, iOS 13, and how we go about writing (and shooting) our product reviews. Full Article
rn 282: ‘Everybody Is an Expert’, With Joanna Stern By daringfireball.net Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:09:43 EDT Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about working from home, the utter suckitude of laptop webcams, the new MacBook Air, and Face ID in our new world of face-mask-wearing. Full Article
rn Rich Harney By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:50:16 +0000 How does the sudden loss of a central figure change the local music community? How does the community deal with that loss? In this installment of Liner Notes with Rabbi and jazz historian Neil Blumofe, we learn about the life and career of Austin jazz pianist Rich Harney who passed away on Jan. 5, 2020.... Full Article Liner Notes austin history of jazz jazz jazz piano piano Rabbi Neil Blumofe
rn This Song: Eric Owen of Black Pistol Fire // Modern Outsider Records By kutx.org Published On :: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:04:53 +0000 Black Pistol Fire Drummer Eric Owen likes the simple grooves but he didn't know it until he heard Nirvana's "In Bloom." Hear about this revelation and how the song lead him to finally learn to play the drums. Then the owners of Austin's Modern Outsider Records, Erin and Chip Adams, talk about how Suede's "Heroine" and The Cure's "Close to Me" set them, in their own ways, on a course to loving songs that were off the beaten path, record collecting and finally starting their own record label. Full Article This Song black pistol fire Modern Outsider Nirvana podcast Suede
rn This Song: BØRNS // Calliope Musicals By kutx.org Published On :: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:45:38 +0000 BØRNS talk about Electric Light Orchestra's “Turn To Stone,” Jeff Lynn’s writing style, guilty pleasures and how he approaches the songwriting process. Then Carrie Fussell from Austin’s own Calliope Musicals talks about “Tightrope” and gushes about the entire ELO album “A New World Record. Finally Calliope Musical's co-founder and drummer Josh Bickley explains how the lyrics of a very non drum centric Blind Melon song won over his very drum centric heart. Full Article This Song Blind Melon Børns Calliope Musicals Electric Light Orchestra KUTX music podcast
rn This Song: Luke Lalonde of Born Ruffians By kutx.org Published On :: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:48:15 +0000 Born Ruffians' Luke Lalonde explores why he loves John Prine's "Far From Me" and describes the deep impact his father has had on his musical journey. Full Article This Song Austin Music Experience Born Ruffians KUTX Luke Lalonde
rn This Song: BUHU returns By kutx.org Published On :: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:19:50 +0000 Jeremy Rogers, of Austin's BUHU descrobes how his band member and wife, Tiffany, along with Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," inspired him to be more open and vulnerable in his work. Later Tiffany explores how "I Wanna Win" by Jaako Eino Kalevi made her feel safe enough to let loose. Full Article This Song BUHU peter gabriel
rn This Song: Moving Panoramas Return By kutx.org Published On :: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:49:17 +0000 Cara Tillman, vocalist and instrumentalist from Moving Panoramas, describes the joy that Elton John's "Burn Down the Mission" brings her, followed by guitarist Rosie Castoe exploring her life long love of Peter Gabriel's "Steam." And lead singer and songwriter Leslie Sisson explains why "Some Song" by Elliot Smith made her feel less alone. Full Article This Song Indie Pop local artist Moving Panoramas
rn Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. (Ep. 39, 2019) By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 05:12:13 +0000 This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents excerpts from an address at this year’s Summit On Race In America: Liberty And Justice For All by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., civil rights icon, former CEO of the National Urban League and former Executive Director fo the United Negro College... Full Article In Black America Jr. National Urban League President Bill Clinton Summit On Race In America United Negro College Fund Vernon E. Jordan
rn Lena Horne (Ep. 10, 2020) By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 06:31:09 +0000 On this week’s In Black America program, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 1983 interview with the legendary singer, dancer, actress and Civil Rights activist, who died in 2010 after a film, television and theater career that spanned 70 years. Full Article In Black America Broadway civil rights movement Harlem Harry Belafonte Lena Horne NAACP Paul Robeson
rn California to Mail All Voters Ballots for November Election By www.nytimes.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 01:35:34 +0000 Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday made California the first state to alter its plans for the general election in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article Voter Registration and Requirements United States Politics and Government Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Newsom Gavin Voting and Voters California
rn U.S. Hits Back at China With New Visa Restrictions on Journalists By www.nytimes.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:10:38 +0000 The Trump administration is imposing 90-day limits on work visas for Chinese journalists, raising the threat of further retaliation by the Chinese government. Full Article United States International Relations News and News Media China United States
rn Iraq Has Government, Next Leader Declares By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sun, 8 May 2005 19:03:50 GMT BAGHDAD, April 27 -- Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim Jafari ended three months of political paralysis Wednesday by announcing he had formed a government and would ask the newly elected National Assembly to approve it. Full Article
rn FESTIVAL: CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Canceled For June 19-27. Producers Working To Reschedule Festival To Fall 2020 By news.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: 2020-04-06T15:11:47+00:00 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Producers Marc Iacona and John Nugent announced today that the festival's 19th edition, originally scheduled for June 19-27, will be canceled on those dates due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but that they are working hard to reschedule the festival to fall of 2020.... Full Article
rn FESTIVAL: L’Équipe Spectra cancels the 2020 International de Jazz de Montréal By news.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: 2020-04-14T17:51:44+00:00 Due to the coronavirus pandemic and following the measures imposed by government authorities, which include cancelling non-essential activities and restricting entry of non-residents to the territory, L'Équipe Spectra announces that the 2020 editions of Les Francos de Montréal (scheduled for June 12) and the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (scheduled for June 25) will not be presented this summer.... Full Article
rn MUSIC INDUSTRY: International Jazz Day thoughts about our new world of virtual jazz By news.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: 2020-05-01T04:32:05+00:00 The world at-large- and the jazz world as we knew it and enjoyed it- have changed drastically over the past six weeks because of the pandemic. No near-term end is in sight for the challenges it has caused. Unless they were held prior to early March, none of the 2020 editions of listeners' favorite jazz festivals, are likely to be held this year... Full Article
rn Born Today - Anthony Wilson By Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:16:01 +0000 Anthony Wilson Born: 1968Anthony Wilson is a guitarist and composer known for a nuanced body of work that moves fluidly across genres. Wilson has long been curious about blurring borders and finding the place where where style and possibility intersect. Wilson’s first recording— Anthony Wilson (1997) — featured a nine-piece “little big band” and garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Recording. It was followed by Goat Hill Junket (1998), and Adult Themes (2000). His fourth recording with... Continue Full Article
rn Watch the Mailchimp meetup & learn audiences By organicweb.com.au Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 02:43:00 +0000 The video below is from one of the four Mailchimp meetups that I hosted in April 2020. In this webinar I covered Mailchimp settings and audiences including tags, segments, importing contacts and much more. There are plenty of questions asked by participants as the meeting progresses. The meetups were attended by Mailchimp beginners as well […] This article appeared first at ❤ OrganicWeb - Mailchimp training, consulting & integration experts. Full Article Marketing mailchimp marketing video
rn Turn leads into Prospects using Mailchimp By organicweb.com.au Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 02:31:39 +0000 A question I sometimes get asked in my Mailchimp classes is how Mailchimp may be used in the sales funnel. Mailchimp can be used effectively in various parts of the sales funnel and in this video I show how prospects may be differentiated from leads in a Mailchimp Audience. In summary, email marketing is an […] This article appeared first at ❤ OrganicWeb - Mailchimp training, consulting & integration experts. Full Article Marketing mailchimp
rn How do I approach learning to sew by way of this very specific project? By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:33:41 GMT I want to teach myself to sew by replicating this apron, probably many, many times. I bought the apron; what next?After spending a lot of the past couple of months in a Bon Appétit rabbit hole (thanks MeFi!), I'm obsessed with this apron that seems to be favored by many of the presenters. Despite its ridiculous price, I went ahead and bought one as a bit of retail therapy. Well, it arrived today and I loooooove it. I want to give them to all my friends and family, and I want ten of them hanging in my own pantry, but spending $5K on linen aprons from France isn't on the agenda. So, no time like the present to merge this motivation with another long-standing goal, which is to get competent with my sewing machine, a Singer from... maybe the early '90s? It was given to me by a friend about ten years ago, and since then I have used it three times, always with a more experienced helper to thread the machine, help cut the pieces, etc. The last time it came out of the closet was at least four years ago, so please assume that I am starting from zero. I have watched a fair amount of Project Runway, but despite that I do not really know where to begin :) This tutorial seems reasonable easy to follow to make a pattern, but... then what? Is there anything more to it than just trying and trying again, presuming I can't ask or hire anyone for help in the foreseeable future? What is the absolute cheapest fabric I can practice on that will help me not ruin the first few yards of linen that I (with luck) will ultimately graduate to? Can I just use reasonably-sized rags/old clothes from the basement? Any general tips on learning to sew on your own as an adult are also welcome! Full Article apron bonappetit linenapron sewing sewingalone sewingmachine singer
rn Pólska Her sýnishorn af 1939 By archive.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:29:33 GMT Það er tjáning "Hamborg skora", sem þýðir að hlutlausa mat á eitthvað með nei afslætti og sérleyfi, með afar kröfu. Kannski er kominn tími til að kynna val – "samkvæmt pólska reikning"....This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.This item has files of the following types: Metadata, VBR MP3 Full Article audio/opensource_audio
rn Kang Tae Hwan and Midori Takada: An Eternal Moment By www.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 07:01:19 +0000 Thanks to Lithuanian label NoBusiness Records, Korean alto saxophonist Kang Tae-Hwan is reaching a new generation of improvised music lovers. Eternal Moment captures the one-of-a-kind saxophonist with Japanese percussionist Midori Takada in a live performance at Café Amores in Hofu, Japan, in 1995. It's the third previously unreleased recording from the Chap Chap Records concert series of the 1990s to feature Kang... [ read more ] Full Article
rn Torben Snekkestad / Agusti Fernandez / Barry Guy: The Swiftest Traveler By www.allaboutjazz.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 07:01:08 +0000 A trio of exploratory and quick-witted improvisers unite for an exciting and stimulating outing on The Swiftest Traveler. Norwegian reedman Torben Snekkestad and Catalan pianist Agusti Fernandez are comrades of bassist Barry Guy in his The Blue Shroud Band and also the 2020 edition of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra... [ read more ] Full Article
rn Asesor del Gobierno recomendaría extender el aislamiento social en Colombia By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 14:49:21 +0200 Full Article
rn ¿Es Bueno que el Comité de la Regla Fiscal permita más déficit al gobierno? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 18:38:57 +0200 Full Article
rn Escuche el programa de La Luciérnaga 05 de mayo By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 20:19:35 +0200 Full Article
rn Gobierno prepara alivio en el Soat y seguro todo riesgo By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:32:14 +0200 Full Article
rn Gobierno debe dar señales a los bancos para dar créditos a largo plazo By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:24:02 +0200 Full Article
rn Voter Turnout Is Light in Louisiana House Runoffs By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:21:57 GMT A trickle of voters across southern Louisiana turned out Saturday to vote in runoffs for two bitterly contested House races. Full Article
rn Wash. Governor's Race Tightens By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:21:57 GMT The state Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously rejected the request that previously rejected absentee and provisional ballots be included in the hand recount of Washington state's contested governor's race. Full Article
rn Doctors Are Warned on Fetus Care By www.washingtonpost.com Published On :: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:58:57 GMT The Bush administration issues guidelines advising physicians and hospitals that they are obligated to care for fetuses "born alive" naturally or in the process of an abortion. Full Article
rn Folgen von Covid-19-Erkrankung: Magier Roy Horn gestorben By www.tagesschau.de Published On :: Weltbekannt wurde Roy Horn als Teil des Duos "Siegfried & Roy" - vor allem durch deren Auftritte mit weißen Tigern und Löwen. Nun ist er im Alter von 75 Jahren an den Folgen von Covid-19 gestorben. Von Julia Kastein. Full Article Ausland
rn How former WSU Cougars receivers Easop Winston Jr., Brandon Arconado learn to speed up for NFL dreams By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:54:21 -0700 Working with a specialty coach for 10 weeks dropped their 40-yard dash times considerably. Full Article College Football College Sports Cougar Football Cougars Sports
rn California wide receiver Orion Peters becomes first WSU Cougars commit in 2021 class By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 10:29:37 -0700 Inglewood (Calif.) High wide receiver Orion Peters pledged to WSU, becoming the first 2021 prospect to do so when he announced his decision on Twitter Friday night. Full Article Cougar Football Cougars Sports
rn Three-star offensive tackle Christian Hilborn becomes WSU’s second 2021 commit By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 12:47:29 -0700 Christian Hilborn, a 6-foot-5, 280-pound offensive tackle from Highland High School in Utah has pledged to the Cougars, becoming WSU's second commit of the 2021 class. Full Article Cougar Football Cougars Sports
rn Remainder of Pac-12 tournament canceled due to coronavirus concerns By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:36:28 -0700 Washington State's win was the final game of the Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament, after the conference decided to cancel the remainder of the 2020 event due to concerns about the coronavirus illness. Full Article College Basketball Cougar Basketball Cougars Huskies Husky Basketball NCAA Tournament Pac-12 Sports
rn Washington Huskies cancel all sports competitions through March 29 amid coronavirus concerns By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:56:25 -0700 The University of Washington will suspend athletic-related activities and events through March 29 due to concerns regarding the novel coronavirus. “The University of Washington athletic department has announced it will suspend all athletic-related activities and events, including workouts, training and practices, through the end of the winter quarter and spring break (March 29) for all […] Full Article College Sports Cougar Basketball Cougar Football Cougars Huskies Husky Basketball Husky Football Pac-12 Sports
rn ‘It’s a big moment.’ Washington State leaves no doubt against Colorado, breaking drought at Pac-12 tournament By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 21:43:53 -0700 Not weighed down by their 10-year drought at the Pac-12 tournament, the Cougars trailed for just 87 seconds against Colorado on Wednesday night before driving the Buffaloes into the ground, 82-68, at T-Mobile Arena. Full Article College Basketball College Sports Cougar Basketball Cougars Pac-12 Sports
rn Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott discusses conference’s financial hit and ‘concern and anxiety’ over athletes because of coronavirus By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:58:14 -0700 The Pac-12 is facing a revenue hit of at least $1 million per school from the cancellation of its men’s basketball tournament and March Madness, although the full extent of the damage won’t be known for weeks. Full Article Cougar Basketball Cougars Huskies Husky Basketball Husky Football NCAA Tournament Pac-12 Sports
rn How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone By www.seobook.com Published On :: 2019-04-08T03:13:01+00:00 Brian McCullough, who runs Internet History Podcast, also wrote a book named How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone which did a fantastic job of capturing the ethos of the early web and telling the backstory of so many people & projects behind it's evolution. I think the quote which best the magic of the early web is Jim Clark came from the world of machines and hardware, where development schedules were measured in years—even decades—and where “doing a startup” meant factories, manufacturing, inventory, shipping schedules and the like. But the Mosaic team had stumbled upon something simpler. They had discovered that you could dream up a product, code it, release it to the ether and change the world overnight. Thanks to the Internet, users could download your product, give you feedback on it, and you could release an update, all in the same day. In the web world, development schedules could be measured in weeks. The part I bolded in the above quote from the book really captures the magic of the Internet & what pulled so many people toward the early web. The current web - dominated by never-ending feeds & a variety of closed silos - is a big shift from the early days of web comics & other underground cool stuff people created & shared because they thought it was neat. Many established players missed the actual direction of the web by trying to create something more akin to the web of today before the infrastructure could support it. Many of the "big things" driving web adoption relied heavily on chance luck - combined with a lot of hard work & a willingness to be responsive to feedback & data. Even when Marc Andreessen moved to the valley he thought he was late and he had "missed the whole thing," but he saw the relentless growth of the web & decided making another web browser was the play that made sense at the time. Tim Berners-Lee was dismayed when Andreessen's web browser enabled embedded image support in web documents. Early Amazon review features were originally for editorial content from Amazon itself. Bezos originally wanted to launch a broad-based Amazon like it is today, but realized it would be too capital intensive & focused on books off the start so he could sell a known commodity with a long tail. Amazon was initially built off leveraging 2 book distributors ( Ingram and Baker & Taylor) & R. R. Bowker's Books In Print catalog. They also did clever hacks to meet minimum order requirements like ordering out of stock books as part of their order, so they could only order what customers had purchased. Amazon employees:2018 647,5002017 566,0002016 341,4002015 230,8002014 154,1002013 117,3002012 88,4002011 56,2002010 33,7002009 24,3002008 20,7002007 17,0002006 13,9002005 12,0002004 90002003 78002002 75002001 78002000 90001999 76001998 21001997 6141996 158— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) April 8, 2019 eBay began as an /aw/ subfolder on the eBay domain name which was hosted on a residential internet connection. Pierre Omidyar coded the auction service over labor day weekend in 1995. The domain had other sections focused on topics like ebola. It was switched from AuctionWeb to a stand alone site only after the ISP started charging for a business line. It had no formal Paypal integration or anything like that, rather when listings started to charge a commission, merchants would mail physical checks in to pay for the platform share of their sales. Beanie Babies also helped skyrocket platform usage. The reason AOL carpet bombed the United States with CDs - at their peak half of all CDs produced were AOL CDs - was their initial response rate was around 10%, a crazy number for untargeted direct mail. Priceline was lucky to have survived the bubble as their idea was to spread broadly across other categories beyond travel & they were losing about $30 per airline ticket sold. The broader web bubble left behind valuable infrastructure like unused fiber to fuel continued growth long after the bubble popped. The dot com bubble was possible in part because there was a secular bull market in bonds stemming back to the early 1980s & falling debt service payments increased financial leverage and company valuations. TED members hissed at Bill Gross when he unveiled GoTo.com, which ranked "search" results based on advertiser bids. Excite turned down offering the Google founders $1.6 million for the PageRank technology in part because Larry Page insisted to Excite CEO George Bell ‘If we come to work for Excite, you need to rip out all the Excite technology and replace it with [our] search.’ And, ultimately, that’s—in my recollection—where the deal fell apart.” Steve Jobs initially disliked the multi-touch technology that mobile would rely on, one of the early iPhone prototypes had the iPod clickwheel, and Apple was against offering an app store in any form. Steve Jobs so loathed his interactions with the record labels that he did not want to build a phone & first licensed iTunes to Motorola, where they made the horrible ROKR phone. He only ended up building a phone after Cingular / AT&T begged him to. Wikipedia was originally launched as a back up feeder site that was to feed into Nupedia. Even after Facebook had strong traction, Marc Zuckerberg kept working on other projects like a file sharing service. Facebook's news feed was publicly hated based on the complaints, but it almost instantly led to a doubling of usage of the site so they never dumped it. After spreading from college to college Facebook struggled to expand ad other businesses & opening registration up to all was a hail mary move to see if it would rekindle growth instead of selling to Yahoo! for a billion dollars. The book offers a lot of color to many important web related companies. And many companies which were only briefly mentioned also ran into the same sort of lucky breaks the above companies did. Paypal was heavily reliant on eBay for initial distribution, but even that was something they initially tried to block until it became so obvious they stopped fighting it: “At some point I sort of quit trying to stop the EBay users and mostly focused on figuring out how to not lose money,” Levchin recalls. ... In the late 2000s, almost a decade after it first went public, PayPal was drifting toward obsolescence and consistently alienating the small businesses that paid it to handle their online checkout. Much of the company’s code was being written offshore to cut costs, and the best programmers and designers had fled the company. ... PayPal’s conversion rate is lights-out: Eighty-nine percent of the time a customer gets to its checkout page, he makes the purchase. For other online credit and debit card transactions, that number sits at about 50 percent. Here is a podcast interview of Brian McCullough by Chris Dixon. How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone is a great book well worth a read for anyone interested in the web. Full Article
rn Internet Wayback Machine Adds Historical TextDiff By www.seobook.com Published On :: 2019-11-05T07:36:47+00:00 The Wayback Machine has a cool new feature for looking at the historical changes of a web page. The color scale shows how much a page has changed since it was last cached & you can select between any two documents to see how a page has changed over time. You can then select between any two documents to see a side-by-side comparison of the documents. That quickly gives you an at-a-glance view of how they've changed their: web design on-page SEO strategy marketing copy & sales strategy For sites that conduct seasonal sales & rely heavily on holiday themed ads you can also look up the new & historical ad copy used by large advertisers using tools like Moat, WhatRunsWhere & Adbeat. Full Article
rn Seattle area is in for chillier weekend weather before sunny skies return By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:51:00 -0700 The cold weather system from Canada that had forecasters predicting unseasonable cold and light snow in the Puget Sound lowlands has shifted west, changing the weekend forecast, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle. That doesn’t mean we won’t get some cold, rainy weather, wind and possibly a flake or two, but the impacts […] Full Article Eastside Environment Local News Outdoors Puget Sound Weather
rn Tornado warnings issued in Hawaii for the first time in more than a decade By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:34:27 -0700 John Alderete was trying to catch a few hours of sleep while the rains beat down Tuesday morning on his home in Kapa’a, Hawaii, on the island of Kauai. But shortly after a quarter to 6 in the morning, he was abruptly awoken by the shrill blare of his cellphone. A tornado warning had been […] Full Article Nation Nation & World Weather
rn Hundreds of lightning strikes put on a show over Western Washington By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 07:08:21 -0700 The National Weather Service in Seattle counted about 250 reports of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. "It made for a pretty good show for us," meteorologist Dana Felton said. Full Article Local News Outdoors Puget Sound Science Weather