Lessig Blog, v2: On the sidewalks with No Money Mike
My family and I spent a couple hours with Mike Connolly (@nomoneyconnolly) and his fiance, Kacy, talking to Cambridge voters yesterday. Connolly is running for State Representative in a district that straddles Cambridge and Somerville. He’s a “progressive independent,” challenging an…
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) will develop and operate a new Brooklyn-based “Made in New York” Media Center, spanning both traditional and new media practices, set to open this coming Spring. The announcement was made an outdoor press conference at 20 Jay Street in DUMBO, the site of…
Prizes create a kind of artificial economic system that maintains most of the key advantages of the free market. They create incentives and competition, and they diversify the number of minds working on the problem. But the prizes eliminate wasteful spending, since they are rewarded only when genuine solutions have been achieved. And when combined with limits on patent monopolies, prizes can ensure that those innovations will flow more readily through the society at large.
This is just awesome and exactly where 3D printing should be going.
Teenage Engineering Make CAD Files Available to 3D Print Replacement Parts
Teenage Engineering not only make one of the sexiest synthesizers but also get the prize for being the first electronics company to offer their replacement parts as downloadable 3D Printed files.
This is the first company that I have seen so far that offer replacement parts to be 3D Printed by their consumers. This is an incredibly smart move as it takes away the need for them to warehouse and distribute replacement parts. It also means that their fans have an opportunity to modify and customize aspects of their synthesizers.
We work hard to make our OP-1 users happy with free OS updates and added functionality. But sometimes we fail. As some have noted, the shipping cost of the OP-1 accessories is very high. This is because we can’t find a good delivery service for small items. Meanwhile, we have decided to put all CAD files of the parts in our library section for you to download. The files are provided in both STEP and STL format. Just download the files and 3D print as many as you want. Next fail is the OP-1 manual update. We are almost there…we promise it will be ready sometime next week. Thank you all for your patience, we promise to work even harder in the future to make you happy.Teenage OP-1 “fail” TeamThe parts are now available on Shapeways if you need to 3D Print replacement parts for your OP-1 synthesizer.
Teenage Engineering, we LOVE you….
Preparing for Wednesday’s iOS6 launch: we’ve got 27 cities online and we’re ready to serve up Lumatic-style public transit directions to Apple Maps users. Bring it!
Rafer sez:
Going-for-broke time, boys and girls. Download and rate! Pots broken, ships burned, 18 months of effort comes down to this week.Again, download and rate!
Go Lumatic Go!
Christian Bale was in Aurora today visiting victims of Friday’s movie theater shooting.
Didn’t go on behalf of Warner Bros. Didn’t go for press. Just went. Class act.
It’s always interesting to me which networks these guys choose. Why Pinterest, for example, which has fewer users than Tumblr and Foursquare? Why Pandora and not Spotify? I wonder what goes into the decision making.
But here’s the thing: Increasingly, brands are bringing social marketing in-house. The era of the social media Agency of Record is ending. So brands don’t really care if their social media management tools cut out the agency. They just want to be told what to say. It’s become a bit of a conundrum for brands that have spent the last few years amassing an audience in the form of followers and “likes.” Now what do they say?
You can’t be authentic by proxy, and you can’t be social if you outsource it to an agency. Agencies have a role to play, but “pretend to be the brand” isn’t it.
Percolate is Solving the One Problem its Social SaaS Competitors Won’t Touch | PandoDaily
Awesome story on Percolate. Those guys are killing it.
(via rickwebb)
Indeed
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So we are probably better at it than you.”
