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my name is alex. i live in san francisco and work at google.

this is my partial life. digitally.

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email me by putting an 'm' between alex and rosen at gmail.com

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I watched the inauguration at Google and one of the biggest claps (before Obama took the oath and gave his speech) was when the ABC commentator mentioned that whitehouse.gov had changed to the new administration. It doesn’t take much to get a bunch of Internet geeks excited, does it?

jakelevine:

www.whitehouse.gov

January 9

Best Windows 7 review so far

tip to SAI

January 7

mikehudack:

cartographer:

onemoretimewithfeeling:

Twitter Baby

Corey Menscher designed this device to detect each kick of his unborn child, and automatically transfer the information to a twitter account via Bluetooth.

Twitter here.

Hype Machine Top 50 Albums of 2008

You can find it here. This is what I love about the Internet: an intelligently put together list from a crowdsourced bibliography. There’s no reason it has to be one or the other. Techmeme recently made this change to allow some editorial finagling, and it works.

I’m already finding good stuff.

December 27

You Have To Burn The Rope

This made me happy. via bontegames.

“ In a famous 1960 article called “Marketing Myopia,” Theodore Levitt held up the railroads as a quintessential example of companies’ inability to adapt to changing circumstances. Levitt argued that a focus on products rather than on customers led the companies to misunderstand their core business. Had the bosses realized that they were in the transportation business, rather than the railroad business, they could have moved into trucking and air transport, rather than letting other companies dominate. By extension, many argue that if newspapers had understood they were in the information business, rather than the print business, they would have adapted more quickly and more successfully to the Net.

James Surowiecki, “News You Can Lose” (via seantice)

Yes.

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This is an excellent point. My mom and I were discussing this idea the other day. If newspapers had gotten that they were information arbitragers, rather than just newsmen, they could have been Craigslist before Craigslist happened.

December 25

A little airport democracy on Christmas day

December 16

I’m still getting emails.

December 7

You know what I sort of hate? Sometimes, when you get really excited about a YouTube video and play it for your friends, about halfway through you realize that the video is longer than you thought and now everyone sort of wishes they weren’t watching it.

December 5

“ In June, 2005, Bernanke was sworn in at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. One of his first tasks was to deliver a monthly economics briefing to the President and the Vice-President. After he and Hubbard sat down in the Oval Office, President Bush noticed that Bernanke was wearing light-tan socks under his dark suit. “Where did you get those socks, Ben?” he asked. “They don’t match.” Bernanke didn’t falter. “I bought them at the Gap—three pairs for seven dollars,” he replied. During the briefing, which lasted about forty-five minutes, the President mentioned the socks several times. This week’s New Yorker article on Bernanke

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…Aaaaand We’re Live

Hype Machine Top 50 Albums of 2008