The Big Picture

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• NY Subway Signs Experiment
• Saturday Night Cinema: De Niro Just Wants to Be Understood
• Content Curation: More Signal, Less Noise
• Time to Retire Daylight Savings
• 10 Weekend Reads
• Mobile Changing Audio Books & Narration

NY Subway Signs Experiment Posted: 03 Nov 2013 02:00 AM PST

Saturday Night Cinema: De Niro Just Wants to Be Understood Posted: 02 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PDT hat tip Slate

Content Curation: More Signal, Less Noise Posted: 02 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PDT Originally presented by Simon Nash at Internet World London 2013 More signal less noise: why attention matters but engagement is a tactic not an outcome. from Reading Room ~~~ Content curation: More Signal, Less Noise

Time to Retire Daylight Savings Posted: 02 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PDT Source: Quartz     Allison Schrager: Daylight saving time in the US ends Nov. 3, part of the an annual ritual where Americans (who don't live in Arizona or Hawaii) and residents of 78 other countries including Canada (but not Saskatchewan), most of Europe, Australia and New Zealand turn their clocks back one hour. It's a controversial practice that became the official standard in America in 1966 and adjusted throughout the 1970s with the intent of conserving energy.. The fall time change feels particularly hard because we lose another hour of evening daylight, just as the days grow shorter. It also creates confusion because countries that observe daylight saving change their clocks on different days. It would seem to be more efficient to do away with the practice altogether. The actual energy savings are minimal, if they exist at all. Frequent and uncoordinated time changes cause confusion, undermining economic efficiency. There's evidence that regularly changing sleep cycles, associated with daylight saving, lowers productivity and increases heart attacks. Being out of sync with European time changes was projected to cost the airline industry $147 million a year in travel disruptions. But I propose we not only end Daylight Saving, but also take it one step further.

10 Weekend Reads Posted: 02 Nov 2013 04:30 AM PDT Good Saturday morning. Pour yourself a cup of Joe, and enjoy these longer form, interesting reads I have accumulated over the past week: • Using Chaos Theory to Predict and Prevent Catastrophic ‘Dragon King’ Events (Wired) • How General Motors Was Really Saved: The Untold True Story Of The Most Important Bankruptcy In U.S. History (Forbes) • Takedown: Meet Dave Ramsey, America’s Personal Finance Guru (Pacific Standard) • Dan Loeb's Skeletons: Did He Hit a Young Cuban Kid in a 2002 Car Accident? (Vanity Fair) see also Bill Erbey Made $2.3B Off Your Underwater Mortgage (The Street) • Why Is America Turning To Shit? (The Awl) • The Snowden Leaks and the Public (NY Books) • The Nuclear Fusion Arms Race Is Underway (Vice • Why I Quit Major League Baseball (New Yorker) • The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store (Business Week) • The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It (Technology Review) Whats up or the weekend?   Analyzing State Tax Reciepts Source: Liscio Report

Mobile Changing Audio Books & Narration Posted: 02 Nov 2013 03:00 AM PDT Donald Katz, chief executive officer of Audible, a provider of audio books, magazines and newspapers on the Internet, talks about the company’s innovations and growth on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Surveillance.” How Has Mobile Changed Audio Books? Source: Bloomberg, Nov. 1 2013 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Audible Is a `Huge Employer of Actors,’ Katz Says Donald Katz, chief executive officer of Audible Inc., a provider of audio books, magazines and newspapers on the Internet, talks about the company’s innovations, growth, strategy and integration with parent company Amazon.com Inc. Katz speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.” Source: Bloomberg, June 29 2013

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