June 2012
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Watch“But he was the best person in the world about doing this. He would get… he would flip on something so fast, that you would forget that he was the person that was taking the 180 polar position on it the day before. He was fantastic at that. But he was - it was an art!. And he would never know that he thought the opposite. I saw it daily! I saw it daily! And this is a gift because things do...
May 2012
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WatchTim Ferriss: A Day In The Life
April 2012
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“I’m not somebody who brings to the table here a lot of baggage from the past,...”
– Barack Obama, on Latin American countries that want to include Cuba’s Castro regime in the Summit of the Americas, Washington Post, April 15, 2012 (via Mauricio Claver). Even Obama gets it!
Inside Washington's high risk mission to beat web... →
“We want to keep the internet open for the protester using social media to organise a march in Egypt,” Clinton said in a major policy speech last year. “[For] the college student emailing her family photos of her semester abroad; the lawyer in Vietnam blogging to expose corruption; the teenager in the US who is bullied and finds words of support online; for the small business...
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Internet Freedom: Diplomats Join The Dissidents,... →
Thank you so much Mr. Fontaine and TechCrunch for drawing attention to this incredibly important report from Reporters Without Borders. I work with a small think tank that promotes human rights and supports civil society in Cuba with new tech - the job is an increasingly complex one because of the nature of the totalitarian government limiting access to these tools and freedom of expression. Cuban...
March 2012
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WatchCuba Needs a (Technological) Revolution: How the Internet Can Thaw an Island Frozen in Time - This was a great event I attended yesterday at Heritage featuring Senator Marco Rubio. I was so stoked to see Google Ideas as a co-sponsor, and Jared Cohen there in person to show solidarity with the cause for a free Cuba.
On top of having one of the lowest internet penetration rates in the world, the...
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But...”
– Steve Jobs, WWDC 1997
Saying no is actually saying yes to other things…
(h/t Aaron Zuchhold)
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February 2012
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Leap: #leapday →
leapforit:
It’s a leap year, and today is leap day! We couldn’t think of a better time to launch Leap. I’m very proud of the hard work that our team has put into this app over the past few months. From Ryan’s 100 hour coding weeks, our team all coming down with the flu at the Startup Pad, weird and crazy…
I nod and shrug at a lot of new startups and apps that seem like they are created...
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“It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the...”
– Aung San Suu Kyi
January 2012
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“Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.”
– Vincent van Gogh
December 2011
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Total Pop Mayhem (The NYE Mixtape)
Here Come the Year-End Mashups!
It really is the most wonderful time of the year: Christmas season in full-swing, and an onslaught of awesome mashups are released into the wild. This month the music industry is looking back and rounding up the year’s best, but gone are the days where we looked solely to VH1, MTV, TRL, Billboard magazine, and your local Clear Channel monopoly to reminisce about the artists who ruled the...
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole...”
– MLK Jr.
Sailors & Sweethearts (The Winter Remix)
November 2011
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Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Chart Predictions
Check out my picks for the Top 25 Songs of 2011 based on the Hot 100 over at Billboard. I looked at how much time these songs spent in the top 10 during the year, and mixed in a little bit of my personal preferences too; we’ll see how close I got when the year-end charts drop in a few weeks! The Billboard Top 25 is also the cocktail used in the “United State of Pop” mash-up...
October 2011
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“We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the...”
– Joni Mitchell, Woodstock
September 2011
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Apple finds a use for some of those... →
Cheaper, refurbished older models of tablets such as the iPad have a pretty extraordinary potential to do good around the world. Apple has just donated tons of them for use in Teach for America classrooms.
I think this could be huge for the growing democracy movement in Cuba. Spreading eBooks, films, and digital media to promote human rights on the island through tablet computers would be a...
Cubans have faith that change will come →
Cubans have faith that change will come
by Danny Lamas
Posted on Fri, Sep. 16, 2011
Re Frank Calzon’s Sept. 8 Other Views article Ping-Pong diplomacy changes little in Cuba and Joe Cardona’s Sept 10 piece, Jim Cason’s work in Cuba offered ‘refreshing approach’: Like Calzon, I remain puzzled as to why many today continue to refer to the passion and commitment of Cuban Americans to human rights...
DJ Dalai's DC Party Rock! →
Turntable.fm’s been one of my favorite online music sites to come around in the last few years. It’s been exciting watching it pick up steam over the summer, even in the midst of other big music announcements such as cloud offerings from Amazon, Google, and Apple - and the big U.S. launch of Spotify. Essentially, Turntable.fm is like social ‘Pandora’ - users take turns...
August 2011
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“Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won’t be...”
– Morrie Schwartz
June 2011
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“Keep me from wisdom that does not cry, philosophy which does not laugh &...”
– Kahlil Gibran
TNW: The top 5 regrets people make on their... →
One of the best things about the digital information age is how much access we have to shared knowledge on life, happiness, chasing your dreams, and what being ‘in the zone’ is really all about. I really believe the best lessons can only be learned through your own personal experiences, successes, and failures - but TNW just totally killed it with this post, and I had to share.
May 2011
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NEW Summer Mixtape: Party On The Edge (Rock The...
A simple, kick-ass DJ set. Dancin’ in the flames, celebrating life, shots before we kiss the other side, dodging the end of the world. Lyrically & sonically, there’s a story to it: never look back, and party on the edge of glory. Guaranteed to jumpstart your summer. Please download and share! See the tracklist after the jump.
On The Floor - Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull
Party Rock...
April 2011
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“I am not afraid…I was born to do this.”
– Joan of Arc
Check out #SigmaChi Megamix 2011
An epic mixtape of unapologetic electropop, frat music, original mashups, Best of Bootie mixes from 2009 and 2010, DJ Earworm, & theatrical tomfoolery from Sigma Chi, Epsilon Chapter. See the tracklist after the jump.
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Bad Romance ( w/ Oliver Sirois Orchestral) – Lady Gaga ‘The Beginning’ – Black Eyed Peas All Of The Lights – Kanye West Doug (Funnie Bitch) – A-1 DJ Got Us...
“One can have many different ideas, and they should be respected, but [for Jimmy...”
– Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet
Cubans ask: Why should Cuba be different? →
…as the free world supported the departure of Egypt’s Mubarak and is presently attempting to bomb Gadhafi into submission, the demands on the Cuban government to modify its tyrannical rule are meager and anemic at best.
Joe Cardona, Miami Herald 4/2/2011
Video: Marlins' John Buck's Grand Slam! →
March 2011
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When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes
Changing keys, giving up on me to find familiar things and try blending in Know this please I will not forget the sound of you and me when we were friends Someday everything ends Can’t we begin finding out the night before we’re too late And lost in between the truth and the dream I’ve never been more ready to move on