a blog by Ian Kennedy
Mary Mitchell, a colleague from my days at Dow Jones, sent me an email the other day. She was inviting me to join a group of classical music fans in Central Park to experience an eclectic selection from the Los Angeles-based group, Delirium Musicum as part of the Naumburg Orchestral Concert series. You can listen [ ]
Om Malik had a wonderful ability to balance a boy-wonder enthusiasm of new technology with an appreciation of its broader impacts to society. He was an old school blogger who distilled the daily Silicon Valley zeitgeist into posts that inspired the reader to think more expansively about how tech innovation changes the world around us. [ ]
We lost Mimi last night. She would have been nineteen (!) in July and had slowed down considerably over the past six months. No pain, just a gradual fading out until she finally stopped breathing at around midnight. Mimi has been with us since 2008 where she was thrust into Izumi’s arms at an Oakland [ ]
No AI Involved The dance sequence at the end of this video directed by Romain Gavras is amazing. Precision chaos is the only way to describe it.
What's old is new.
It s been over a year since The Messenger closed down and the lessons are even more stark today. The meltdown precipitated from a number of out-dated expectations. Social media algorithms are shunning general news content, Google has been re-calibrated to favor original, niche content and news consumption habits have changed considerably. It’s kind of like [ ]
I went to a panel yesterday where online retailers spoke about the changes AI has brought to their profession. Ugly Talk: Selling in the World Run by Algorithms. While a well-structured website with lots of meta-data around your catalog have become table-stakes, success or failure can also come from unexpected data layers in your checkout [ ]
Anthropic, makers of AI Assistant Claude, is going after their competition with a series of ads to designed to give users pause after the Open AI s announcement that ads would be coming to their product, Chat GPT. The campaign, Time and a Place, was envisioned by Mother London, extending Claude s positioning from the Keep Thinking [ ]
Went to visit the excellent selection of ephemera on display at the New York Public Library and picked out a few choice pieces to share. A The Century of The New Yorker is free to the public on the third floor of the main Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 5th Avenue in Manhattan and well [ ]
In Japan gifts are launched as missiles, serving, if rightly chosen, to stun the recipient, or as least to nudge him or her off balance.