A historical collection of our writing.
Scott Karp wrote last week that innovations in online advertising could dethrone the page view as the metric of choice. Jarvis picks up on it today, from a different angle.This followed up on a post Karp wrote back in September about the middle — and large — area of online advertising that is […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
“When Picasso reworked Velazquez, Delacroix, and the other Old Masters, he seemed to be devouring them, appropriating and digesting for his own use their mysterious essence.”-Calvin Tomkins […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Watching this video of American Apparel CEO Dov Charney on Charlie Rose (I think from July 2006), I was struck by these comments Charney made in response to a question about why American Apparel was so successful (my transcription):”Its the easiest thing for us to do, in the sense of the way we’ve […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Take an old blues/jug song, combine some John Phillips Monterey Pop mojo with a few music freaks from the penninsula, and this is what you get: […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Unable to know is a condition I’ve lived inAll my life; it is a povertyOf imagination about the life of another.This is, I think, the case with everyone.It is because there is a silence that weAre all of us forbidden to cross, not onlyThe silence that divides the dead from the livingBut, antecedent […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Carmun is a wonderful service (where I am a founder/investor) with alot of potential. Call it social networking for brainiacs, the yin to the Facebook yang, whatever . . . but its goal is to create an online community for college and grad students by making the task of doing academic work easier. A […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
