Random things: Andreesen on Obama, What does your city say about you?, Twitter Tips
Thames River, London, at dusk. Doesn’t it look like a city from the future?
Marc Andreesen on Barack Obama:
In 2007 Marc Andreesen spent an hour and a half with Barack Obama:
Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer.
If you were asking me to write a capsule description of what I would look for in the next President of the United States, that would be it.
Andreesen’s piece reads like a letter of recommendation. It’s thoughtful, very analytical, an assessment of Obama’s strengths and how he turns his perceived weaknesses into even stronger strengths. (via TPMCafé)
‘Creative Class’: What Does Your City Say About You?
Newsweek’s Katie Paul discusses how place affects lifestyle with University of Toronto business professor Richard Florida:
Technology makes the world smaller, but it also makes the world spikier…Economic activity is not only becoming more concentrated but also more specialized. New York is great in fashion design and investment banking. San Francisco’s great in software. L.A.’s great in entertainment technology. And Nashville is the epicenter of music production. So if you want to pursue a given career, it’s not just that you can make it in any big city, because now there is a smaller number of big cities that will be the key places for you.
Twitter Tools, Tweaks and Theories
John T Unger has written a comprehensive guide to Twitter tools, 8 great uses for Twitter, tips for getting the best out of your use, useful apps and clients, Twitter and RSS, and the utility of Twitter for business. If you’re thinking about using Twitter (or already use it) you can’t miss this guide!
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PollPundit says:
Mar 30th, 2008
Andreessen is right about Obama’s Post-Boomer identity being so important, but of which Post-Boomer generation is Obama a part of. There is a growing consensus in the media, and among experts, that Obama is not a Boomer, nor an Xer, but instead is a member of Generation Jones (born 1954-1965, the heretofore lost generation between the Boomers and Xers).
Just in the last month or so, several top media outlets, including The New York Times, Newsweek Magazine, and NBC, have all made the argument that Obama is specifically part of Generation Jones. I also heard a panel of generations experts recently on a national radio show discussing this specific issue, and four of the five experts conlcuded that Obama is, in fact, a GenerationJoneser…that his bio and political worldview closely match the GenJones archetype.