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PS22 Chorus, Lisztomania by Phoenix Posting a video today for...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:17:46 -0500

PS22 Chorus, Lisztomania by Phoenix

Posting a video today for cover Friday. If you haven’t seen the PS22 Chorus in action, you’re seriously missing out. Absolutely amazing stuff. Check them out here.

Broken Bells, Mongrel Heart This new album is simply excellent.

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500

Broken Bells, Mongrel Heart

This new album is simply excellent.

Cults, Go Outside This mysterious boy-girl duo is coming out of...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:28:48 -0500

Cults, Go Outside

This mysterious boy-girl duo is coming out of nowhere. I love this track.

David Bowie, I’ve Been Waiting For You (Neil Young cover)

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:37:26 -0500

David Bowie, I’ve Been Waiting For You (Neil Young cover)

Vampire Weekend, Giving Up The Gun Revisiting. Probably my...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:34:52 -0500

Vampire Weekend, Giving Up The Gun

Revisiting. Probably my favorite track on the new album.

rudesmuse: EPMD » LET THE FUNK FLOW Old school.

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:57:43 -0500

rudesmuse:

EPMD » LET THE FUNK FLOW

Old school.

Goldfrapp, Rocket

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:34:02 -0500

Goldfrapp, Rocket

Neil Young, Long May You Run One of my favorite songs of all...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500

Neil Young, Long May You Run

One of my favorite songs of all time. Neil did it right for Conan’s finale and to close the Olympics last night. A legend in our time.

School of Seven Bells, Change Another rudesmuse special.

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:22:30 -0500

School of Seven Bells, Change

Another rudesmuse special.

Sia, You’ve Changed Fun track.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:10:15 -0500

Sia, You’ve Changed

Fun track.

We're looking for an associate

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:31:47 -0500

bijan:

We are looking to hire an associate at Spark.

The title “associate” means different things at different venture capital firms so let me tell you what it means at Spark.

An associate at Spark is part of our investment team in our Boston office. He or she will help our team with market & competitive analysis, process deal flow, due diligence on new investment opportunities, assist our portfolio companies, attend & organize meetups as well as various other firm responsibilities such as annual reports and portfolio analysis.

This is not a classic two year and out program. We are looking for someone that will grow with us or possibly join one of our portfolio companies over time.

Ideal person:

-excellent communication & listening skills
-creativity
-passion for new technologies
-an active user of web and mobile applications
-thoughtful about the ever changing media & technology landscape
-aggressive, self starter
-strong analytical skills
-tech background plus but not required
-based in boston or willing to move here
-ideal previous experience (~2-4years) could include: startup, internet/technology company, analytical/financial role in related industries
-(mba not required)

If this sounds like you, then please send an email to jobs@sparkcapital.com with whatever you think can help us get to know you better (eg. linkedin profile, blog, twitter profile, video etc).

Thanks.

The Morning Benders, Temptation Inside Your Heart (Velvet...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:21:52 -0500

The Morning Benders, Temptation Inside Your Heart (Velvet Underground cover)

One more quicky from The Morning Benders.

Venture Capital, Disruption & The New Media Order

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:06:16 -0500

I gave a talk yesterday at the Paley Center for Media to a number of members of the Writer’s Guild of America. The group generally consisted of folks who make or want to make a living by producing content — a job increasingly challenged by the web’s democratizing open platform.

I attempted to explain a little bit about venture capital and its significance in helping fund many of the most innovative companies of our time, how and why those companies tend to disrupt the status quo, the specific impact this disruption has had on the media industry and some practical tips for how to hopefully stay relevant in the new media order.

It was a thoughtful and receptive group. I hope they found the discussion worthwhile. If you’re interested, my slides can be found below.

As an aside, one thing the Internet sure has done is make the process of putting these presentations together so much easier. Images, data and even fully blown charts are all readily available in the public domain for anyone who needs them. Services like Slideshare and Scribd are simply fantastic. The web forces a premium on ideas and richness of discussion vs. the ability to make a fancy graph or chart. Yet another example of how the web enables us to focus on what really matters by making data and information so easily accessible to all.

WGA Presentation 2.24.10

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How I Unplug

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:32:03 -0500

I was asked recently by an amazing organization called Reboot for my thoughts on what the Sabbath means to me in the current always-on, real-time information age. They follow:

We live in a world of endless information flow. Bits and bytes are our food and water. They move back and forth at a deafening pace. In this world of boundless stimulation and interaction, how does one disconnect, reflect, take stock? One of the defining elements of this information economy is it’s social, connected nature, where we both put out and consume information as part of our shared human experience. For me, it is the information intake that when left unchecked tends to overtake me. Setting aside a fixed weekly time for contemplation, whenever and for however long it is, allows me to disconnect and refocus internally. Then, what I put out more closely reflects my true ‘self’ rather than tending towards a boomerang-like reflection of what I take in. This return to self is my Sabbath, my peace, a chance to reconnect with my inner thoughts and light.

Bobby Birdman, You’d Be Surprised My friend Arye put out...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:16:30 -0500

Bobby Birdman, You’d Be Surprised

My friend Arye put out his latest mix yesterday. Kid’s got some serious music chops. Will likely post a few over the coming days.

"Alas, though, instead of making nation-building in America his overarching narrative and then..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:58:42 -0500

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Alas, though, instead of making nation-building in America his overarching narrative and then fitting health care, energy, educational reform, infrastructure, competitiveness and deficit reduction under that rubric, the president has pursued each separately. This made each initiative appear to be just some stand-alone liberal obsession to pay off a Democratic constituency — not an essential ingredient of a nation-building strategy — and, therefore, they have proved to be easily obstructed, picked off or delegitimized by opponents and lobbyists.

So “Obamism” feels at worst like a hodgepodge, at best like a to-do list — one that got way too dominated by health care instead of innovation and jobs — and not the least like a big, aspirational project that can bring out America’s still vast potential for greatness.

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- Op-Ed Columnist - The Fat Lady Has Sung - NYTimes.com

Tom Friedman avoiding his usual green rhetoric and actually spot-on in this Sunday’s NYTimes.

Gorillaz, Stylo (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack, Chiddy Bang...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:27:05 -0500

Gorillaz, Stylo (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack, Chiddy Bang remix)

More greatness from the Gorillaz.

Jj, Ecstasy Thanks to my man Mike for turning me onto this band.

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:25:35 -0500

Jj, Ecstasy

Thanks to my man Mike for turning me onto this band.

Photo

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:17:05 -0500

Was at a pretty cool office on Friday. An agency, of course.

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:15:35 -0500

Was at a pretty cool office on Friday. An agency, of course.