Mark Ury_You are what you share

More antibiotics are fed to livestock in North Carolina alone than are given to humans in the entire United States, according to the peer-reviewed Medical Clinics of North America. It concluded that antibiotics in livestock feed were “a major component” in the rise of antibiotic resistance.

Assassination is justified if it keeps us out of a war.

It’s his ability to convey a profound, seemingly limitless sense of empathy that elevate the Dude beyond the usual Coen caricature. By facing every assault — repeated beatings, a friend’s death, the theft of a rug — with little more than an exclamation (“Man!”) and a toke, he and the Dude affirmed that an American hero doesn’t need a punch, just a punch line.

The weird thing about a completely open platform based on open standards is that while no single vendor, such as Apple, can control the content or the standards, it can control its implementation. (And it can influence the content and the standards.) That’s all they need.

There are awesome iPhone OS apps that aren’t being built because developers don’t trust Apple not to yank the carpet out from underneath them.

I think we’ve begun to see this already in how Bravo, HBO and others have jumped to partner with FourSquare. Imagine if these networks knew about all the other great stuff out there. I think we’re going to see a lot more deals where the pipes (or audience aggregators) look for great product to bring to their audiences. “Content is King,” is a flawed chestnut, because history has actually shown that Distribution is King. But to the extent that Content is at least Duke, and Services are the new Content, I think we arrive at the corollary: Services are Princely.

Services are Princely (and More Cowbell) | Jon Steinberg

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The immediate Olympic legacy for this city of 580,000 people is a nearly $1 billion debt from bailing out the Olympic Village development. Beyond that, people in Vancouver and British Columbia have already seen cuts in services like education, health care and arts financing from their provincial government, which is stuck with many other Olympics-related costs. Many people, including Mrs. Lombardi, expect that more will follow.

I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.