Links from Monday, September 15, 2008 to Tuesday, September 16, 2008

by Adam Kuban

  • Wall Street’s Collapse Delivers an Overdue Wake Up Call to Startups
    "One theme that has been emerging is being referred to as 'web meets world.' It's an idea that has been discussed by Brad Burnham from Union Square Ventures, and also the folks at the Web 2.0 Summit. The concept is that the web needs to actually help you do things in the real world, and not just meet other folks on the web. I think this is all true but it is really just a fancy abstraction for helping people do things that matter, and things that they will pay for. As an example, Union Square just invested in Meetup — a terrific investment. Meetup makes real money charging people for helping connect them to other people. They are providing real value and so people pay real money."
    (tags: Web2.0 startups financing WallStreet )
  • Frank Rich: ‘The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket’
    "Palin, who lies with ease about her own record, misrepresented Pegler’s too. He decreed America was “done for” after Truman won a full term in 1948. For his part, Truman regarded the columnist as a “guttersnipe,” and with good reason. Pegler was a rabid Joe McCarthyite who loathed F.D.R. and Ike and tirelessly advanced the theory that American Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe (“geese,” he called them) were all likely Communists. ¶ Surely Palin knows no more about Pegler than she does about the Bush doctrine. But the people around her do, and they will be shaping a Palin presidency. That they would inject not just Pegler’s words but spirit into their candidate’s speech shows where they’re coming from. Rick Davis, the McCain campaign manager, said that the Palin-sparked convention created “a whole new Republican Party,” but what it actually did was exhume an old one from its crypt."
    (tags: WestbrookPegler fascism AllHailPalin Republicans scary Election2008 )
  • Westbrook Pegler on Wikipedia
    More info on this guy.
    (tags: WestbrookPegler fascism Wikipedia )
  • How to Hide Genre in iTunes 8
    Thank you, Raphael, for pointing out this Poverty Jet Set post on hiding the stupid genre browsing in iTunes 8. Rock!
    (tags: iTunes hacks Apple )