December
2007 27
2007 27
Thought Nuggets from Twitter – Part 2
Published by MartinVarsavsky.net in General with No Comments
I don’t twit in the traditional sense of the term (internet tradition is measured in months not years). I don’t generally tell people what I am doing. Instead I twit what I am thinking about. For year end I will post what Evan Williams, founder of Twitter, appropriately called thought nuggets.
- Ireland shows that to thrive you don’t need to have leading global companies. U just need for them to like u.
- having children is the only miracle we can experience in real life
- will the next web finally be the one in which the interface is human meaning speech, video, sound, and not keyboards and text?
- i am now trilingual, mac, ubuntu, windows, but I rarely use windows anymore
- Why is top blogging equal or better than top print and top video blogging a la youtube so much worse than cable TV?
- the best internet conferences in Europe are DLD, Google Zeitgeist, Le Web 3 and SIME
- facebook: your social CV
- my favorite Nokia apps are shozu. fring and pocketcaster
- Are Putin and Hu Jintao dictators or are they necessary intermediary steps between Stalin, Mao….and democracy?
- There are 3 approaches to immigration: no immigrants like Japan, low skilled immigrants like Spain, most qualified immigrants around the wo …
- FedEx proves that moving things is much more profitable than moving people.
- virtual philanthropy, second life or stardoll can give virtual property away for free to people in poor countries
- Airlines are masters at affinity programs yet they don’t seat people on planes according to affinities.
- There r 3 Arab civil wars going on now in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq.
- With global warming the amount of cells in the planet will increase.
- Would Sarkozy love an Obama led America as much?
- I was against Sarkozy but I sincerely hopes he brings a sense of urgency to complacent France
- A few months ago the future was in Second Life, now the future is in Facebook, where is the future going to be tomorrow?
- USA tries to stop illegals at the border. Europe on the streets.
- I work better since I abandoned Microsoft for Ubuntu and Mac. But I can’t wait for browser based computing to be ready.
- Coming from Europe, Canada seems like a kinder, more caring, USA.
- in USA “undivided attention” is a thing of the past
- Are social networks about being social or about self promotion.
- Facebooks success is like America’s: immigration.
- San Fran. One of the most beatiful cities in the world. Even the homeless seem to agree.
- Why is it that in Europe most parking is underground and in America is not?
- I am in the wine country. Didn’t know they had such a country. Its just beautiful!
- Calistoga, Healdsburg, areas, add them to the list of places to see…
- When u fly in America, u realize that terrorism won.
- Why if women do not compete with men in sports do they fight agaimst them in war?
- there are over 700 people worth over $5 million thanks to the rise in Google share price
- Skype should offer an open API for chat even if it does not for voice. If not Google Talk will eventually catch up.
- forget about the war on drugs, i want to start the war…on war
- One measure of civilization: lowest police per capita.
- as population grows, there are more people who believe in past lives that there are past lives available for them
- Israel is the home of over one million Palestinian. None of them become terrorists.
- Is it possible to be a very well educated person and not speak English?
- Since Facebook opened apps all the other communities I belong to are going silent.
- It is easier for me to understand why humans die than to understand why they sleep.
- Chile has the best government in Latin America, but the worst music. In Cuba the opposite is true.
- The Bible by proclaiming virginity leaves out the only miracle we do experience in real life: conception.
- Nintendo fanboys are sheep, Sony fanboys are crabs, PC gamers r hermits
- The best two service economies are USA and Japan. One is based on tipping. The other one on duty.
- the iPhone is web 1.0, it s a great spectator phone, but you can’t film, the camera is very poor, it’s amazing to read but poor to write on …
- Pakistan’s ruler likes the West but his people hate it. Iran has a ruler who hates the West, but his people like us. Pakistan has the bomb. …
- Enhanced TV is the TV industry answer to time shifting
- 2006 was the year with most TV sold in USA, most TVs sold over 50 inches
- HBO is the only big TV network without ads, can that last?
- US regulators believe that anyone in finance who is consistently generating alpha is cheating
- Londons recent lead gain over NYC is mostly due to poor US reg moves
- U cannot chat, film, gps on an iPhone.
- Companies r taken private when investors think they will be misunderstood
- The net neutrality fight, to US consumers, is like hearing divorced parents argue, consumers need both, papa and mama
- The fastest growing population segment in OECD countries is those over 65
- A smoker has on the average 3400 dollars of extra medical costs per year in USA
- Health Care systems should be rated along 3 axis: quality, access and cost.
- The secret to how grandparents get along so well with grandchildren is their common enemy
- The members of the Forbes 400 pay less taxes in percentage terms than their receptionists
- USA has a 250bn deficit with China. USA gets goods. China gets paper.
- U want to buy a biz that an idiot can run cause sooner or later one will, pete lynch
- As I listen to Bill Gates present I realize that he is falling out of touch with the times.
- Microsoft Surface, computer on your desk gets in your desk, looked cool
- George Burns got 4 amazing girls for his 95th bday. He saw them and said: sorry babes, I am 95, one of u has to go.
- Warren Buffett’s political views would make him very well liked in Europe. In USA he gets away with them.
- USA and Europe lose a lot by training foreign students and then refusing them work visas.
- The NYC public school system has to deal with students whose parents speak 170 different languages
- In the States education is managed by mayors, not presidents
- Biz is on on dog eat dog world, politics is just the reverse
- Problem: politics has gone global but policies remain local
- Many local problems only have global solutions
- Tony Blair a hero of mine in spite of Iraq. I wish he ran the UN
- Bush argues that if USA leaves Iraq the country will fall into chaos. At this point it is more likely that the opposite is true.
- Americans defeat the weather. In the winter…it’s too hot, in the summer it’s too cold.
- Carlos Slim is the wealthiest man on earth. Mexico’s GDP is 1/17th of that of USA.Slim’s wealth says a lot about poor income distribution! …
- in madrid people are nasty in the upper class suburbs and nice downtown, in NYC the opposite is true
- in America the rich are mostly visible, in Spain they are mostly invisible
- in America many people take their babies out of their homes and drive them around to put them to sleep…
- NY Times says USA has become one of the countries with the most road fatalities rates, it ranks bet Poland and Greece.
- in New Hampshire its legal to drive without your seat belt: live free or die?
- the Youtube/CNN debate made the Time cover true, the clipmakers were the protagonists
- the Americans invent, the Europeans design, the Chinese manufacture
- China is replacing USA as the growth engine of the world. USA is slowed down by military spending and legal waste.
- USA’s real estate market moves in two different waves, one for 99% of the population and the other for 1% of the population
- Many conspiracy theories come out of poor policy choices. People can’t believe that their gov is so incompetent and attribute higher motives …
- I prefer to know what people are thinking than what they r doing
- do first born children have more sleeping problems? if they do it must due to the inexperience of the parents
- women are overcoming 10K years of oppression in 50, not bad
- Americans let teens drive at 16 but get to drink at 21. I think it would be best if teens could learn to drink in moderation and then drive
- When it gets to sex and alcohol the US gov makes teens feel and act like criminals.
- Endowments many times survive their reason to exist
- Freedom is the ability to lead a life without fear
- in Argentina where I grew up being very thin was associated with being poor, in the Hamptons where I am now the opposite is true
- USA should lower the drinking age and raise the driving age
- 40% of bottled water in the States is tap water
- Back in Spain, make a GSM call, quality far superior to US, why r US cell nets so bad?
- Since 1980 the number of imprisoned Americans grew 450%
- How can the Spaniards work so little compared to the Koreans and have the same GDP per person?
- Is Google atmospheric P/E a blessing or a curse for googlers?
- People get much more energy per kg of food than engines running biofuels.
- flying and sailing have much more in common than people think, people who are afraid of flying but not sailing should learn about this
- Laws should follow the principles of inactive email accounts, after certain years of not being used they should be deleted
- Paradox: in Europe the highest holocaust survival rates were among German Jews.
- Can fully veiled women be candidate in an election?
- The next big thing in tattoing is to tattoo objects
- Books are tools for communication and as such they are becoming outdated
- Why do so many people believe supermarket food poisons them?
- Ten percent of Protestants, 21 percent of Roman Catholics, and 52 percent of Jews do NOT believe in God.
- there are 1,4 billion Mulsims and 14 million Jews in the world
- there are over 6bn people on the planet, around 1 bn consider themselves non religious
- Religious theories are shortcuts towards explanations
- Europe and USA diverge on death penalty, guns, religion in politics, environment, military spending, egalitarianism, beaurocracy, transport
- When credit markets get shaky LDCs credit tanks first even when they run surpluses. Hard for them to believe in markets.
- When people tell me that we all had previous lives somehow I can’t work out the demographics
- Virginity: the rare occasion in which beginners are praised.
- People who are afraid of chemicals don’t seem to realize that all that we see and eat are chemicals.
- Americans can’t remember, Europeans can’t forget, Asians can’t forgive
- Digital photography. You can always do prints…you never do.
- I have a hard time with the notion that our TV signals will be around the universe once our planet is gone.
- The Southern hemisphere is mostly water, less able to eliminate carbon emitted in the North.
- There are more bacteria in your body than years in the universe.
- Antartica is technically a desert
- Learning requires focus, focus requires that we ignore most else, so learning requires ignorance?
- Judged by numbers, the animals who we hate, rats, have been doing better than the ones we like,cats.
- I spent hours thinking about a plausible theory of why humans like music and dance so much, could not come up with anything reasonable…
- When non US people buy dollars US citizens get richer. If those buyers shift to euros….
- Birth rates collapse when people children as a financial burden rather than life insurance. Is that why they were having them?
- weeks are an irrational division of time
- University is the place where professors teach u what they were never able to do
- Species need lucky mutants to evolve, does human knowledge need thinking mutants to expand?
- Anyone who is anybody spends time on the internet. If I was looking for Osama Bin Laden I would look for him online.
- USA is the only country able to export famous people, why?
- Growing old in America: Dawson’s Creek, Friends, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives and Weeds.
- humans process food much more efficiently than cars, another reason to oppose biofuels
- global warming is bad except in the fact that it increases the amount of living cells in the planet
- Addiction treatments like AA rely on 0 tolerance for addictive substance. This is not possible with addiction to food.
- Does children happiness correlate better with parents being together or with time spent with parents?
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