🔗 John Battelle’s Search Blog Who Stole My Alpha?
The term is borrowed from the financial sector, where “alpha” represents the excess return or competitive edge a particular investment yields over what the market might usually return (this is where the leading finance publication Seeking Alpha got its name).
… I’d often wondered.
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I think what’s new is that we finally have a constituency with the power to oppose the wholesale appropriation of data that’s been the mainstay of the tech industry these past few decades. Unlike consumers, who willingly ceded control of their data for the convenience of tech services, corporations are terrified of sharing information that might expose their strategies, competitive edge, or weaknesses.
Ummm .. maybe not all .. but a lot of ‘consumers’ (I prefer ‘people’) were not willing .. they just didn’t have the power to fight back.
🪦 Farewell Bonnie.
Crucial Track 🎵 July 8, 2026
"Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) [The Ultimate Mix]" by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
It’s going to get you. 🔗 Inspired by
More space on Colossal.
🔗 Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist.
We are very very small.
More on the world’s Anti-Christs …..
Every ‘Differality’ I have 🖇️🔎 ever posted (these just on Micro.Blog) - and more - all put together in 🔗📼 a single SNL sketch - brilliant. 😂
.. Also via 🔗Matt
🔗📼 Matthew McConaughey - via 🔗Matt.
On September 28, Doc Searls wrote a post entitled DIY Radio with Podcasting. I couldn’t locate a subsequent post where he did a Google search and found zero hits for the term, predicting that there would be a lot more, as the idea caught on.
So it was Doc that coined the term?
👁️ Arriving to a fanfare of trumpets yet only managing three shots in 92 minutes - only one of which was even on target - and finally being substituted with 9 minutes to go.
Result? 4 -1 against you.
Dear Tяump - this is what karma looks like.
🤖🔗 Ed on form.
I missed Bending Spoons going public a week ago. Who knew that a failing software company could use its last bit of cash to buy another failing company and from there build a portfolio of failing companies and 10 years later have an IPO that values you at - as of today - $23Billion. Kudos. The Computer Associates of the new millennium.
If you use Evernote, Vimeo, Eventbrite, AOL, Meetup, Issuu, StreamYard, Brightcove, AOL, WeTransfer and many more - you are using Bending Spoons.
Two thoughts
- Glad they added a ‘P’ to the end of their ticker.
- I agree - not all failing - ‘Distressed Assets’ might be more accurate? Still - all needed (still need?) Help.
Stop Blaming Failure On 'The Kids'.
Too many people blame declining club/society membership on the ‘kids don’t want to join.’ That’s not the problem ….
Sometimes I just forget what I have in my quiver.
Marketing sells when the salesperson is not there.
Some commentary for a change. Just spotted a version of this on LinkedIN and tracked it back to the source - Rosie Hatton. Like us all - I do spot a lot of frameworks that I look at move on and never go back to. This one is different. So sharing. Nicely done - and very appropriate for 2026. Thank you Rosie.
Seems to have been floating around LinkedIN since the middle of May - but no clarity on how to credit. Still truth in humour?
💬 - via Gruber.
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Let me actually render it and check pixel colors rather than just eyeball the source.
Dear Claude - how exactly would you ‘eyeball the source’ ?
Asking for a friend.
Coming to a computer near you in 6 days time.
For free.
🔗📼 Looks like it was produced by Automattic .. or maybe Matt himself
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