The recent report by MIT on Climate Change was the "most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century" It found that "without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago – and could be even worse than that."
- Jared Hanson
But on a symbolic level, the fund’s success certifies Andreessen’s place as the new godfather of Silicon Valley. Andreessen embodies so many facets of the valley. He is an innovator, an entrepreneur, investor, networker, and in some cases, kingmaker.
- Jared Hanson
No single shift in business models or payment systems is going to fix the economic problems of the press. ... One would be a hybrid of the NPR "pledge" model and the old royalty system for airplay of pop music on the radio. The combination could give people a way to support news operations in a nonintrusive, familiar fashion.
- Jared Hanson
my main point is for the activity streams schema to get adopted, it needs to enable conversation. activity is not just publishing and consuming, but also responding. behind every single subject/verb/object triple, there’s an owner of the object — even if it’s just the same as the subject. this creates an implicit social connection between people. when there’s a social connection, we have a relationship.
- Jared Hanson
Cities across the country are investing in bicycling infrastructure, but the workaday inverted, U-shaped bike racks remain the standard in most places. That may change if the partners in the new Bike Arc storage system have their way, and their new modular rack is flexible and compact enough to be a contender for widespread use.
- Jared Hanson
And if [everyone is a publisher today] is true, and I think it is or will be, then the local media companies that leverage their audiences for their content, create communities and conversations, will win. And they'll be profitable businesses worth owning and investing in.
- Jared Hanson
Every time I go to AMEE's site to read about it, I leave wondering exactly what it does and how it works. Some day I'll get it.
With more users and sensors feeding more applications and platforms, developers are able to tackle serious real-world problems. As a result, the Web opportunity is no longer growing arithmetically; it’s growing exponentially. Hence our theme for this year: Web Squared. 1990-2004 was the match being struck; 2005-2009 was the fuse; and 2010 will be the explosion.
- Jared Hanson