datos crudos

text (celebrity profile): The Return of Eva (Jan 3, 2016 Buzzfeed/Jarett Wieselman) 

text: Zadie Smith’s Productivity Tips Will Make You A More Focused Person (Dec 3, 2015 Buzzfeed/ Meg Cramer)

text: How Gawker Brings In Millions Selling Headphones, Chargers and Flashlights (Dec 31, 2015 Wall Street Journal/ Steven Perlberg Jack Marshall

audio (podcast): Bloomberg Benchmark Episode 18: Will Your Job Disappear By 2024? (Dec 30, 2015 Bloomberg/ Hosts: Tori Stilwell, Dan Moss, Aki Ito. Guest: Heidi Shierholz)

text (individual blog): Just An Old Fashioned Love Song (Jan 2, 2016 Regarding/ Ritchey) 

video (web series): Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee S4E4 w/Aziz Ansari: “It's Like Pushing a Building Off a Cliff” (Jerry Seinfeld’s show) 

text (corporate blog post): How We Got off the Addiction to Venture Capital and Created Our Own Way to Profits (Jan 2, 2016 Skift/ Rafat Ali)

video (movie): Saint Laurent (not Yves Saint Laurent) [2:30:00] *

text (essay): What It Feels Like to be Adopted at 17 (dec 28, text, Narratively/Lyric Esparza) *

audio (podcast): On the Media from Jan 22 2014: One Hundred Songs in a Day [12:24]

video (web series): Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee S7E1 w/Barack Obama: Just Tell Him You’re the President (Jerry Seinfeld’s show) [19:13]

Clearer Limits for Insider Trading Prosecutions (dec 11, text, NYT/Reynolds Holding)

Did Appeals Court Ruling Legalize Insider Trading? (dec 11, video, bloomberg television [9:22] w/Sheelah Kolhatkar,Retired Federal Judge Richard Holwell,Matthew Levine )

Venture Capital Is Looking for Ways to Outrun the Herd (dec 11, text, NYT, Sarah Max)

As New Bloomberg Business Site Approaches, Company Eyes Larger Audience (dec 11, text, AdAge/Michael Sebastian)

Keurig 2.0 Genuine K-Cup Spoofing Vulnerability (dec 9, text, Seclists/Kenneth Buckle)

Facebook Gives Publishers New Tools, Hopes They’ll Use Them to Give Facebook More Stuff (dec 10, text, recode/Peter Kafka)

Twitter co-founder 'doesn't give a shit' that Instagram has more users (dec 11, text, The Verge/Sam Byford)

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams: 'I don't give a shit' if Instagram has more users (dec 11, text. covers inconsistent app measurement)*

Why is there so much deflation in Europe? (dec 11, video, [2:25], fox business/Deirdre Bolton/Bob Rice)

Bruce Shneier doesn't think north korea gov hacked SONY (based on current evidence) (dec 11, text, his personal website)

Nick Denton steps down as Gawker president, names seven-person managing board (dec 10, text, capital new york/Peter Sterne)

full text of nick denton staff memo* (dec 10, text, google docs (rogue share?))

You Can’t Make a Living: Digital Media, the End of TV’s Golden Age, and the Death Scene of the American Playwright (dec 8th, text, los angeles review of books/Alena Smith)*

michael lewis interview with DailyCal (UC Berkeley) (text, Dec 5)

Ousted Citi Forex Trader Leaves New Role After Three Months (text, Dec 5, WSJ, paywal/reg-wall, workaround with searchl) 

Arcadia, CA The California Town Where Chinese Millionaires House their Kids—and Mistresses (video, Vocativ YouTube [3:59], Dec 5)

America's Self-Storage Industry Is Booming* (text, Businessweek, Dec 1)

BlackRock's Fink on Risks and Returns in 2015 [29:49]

BlackRock Sees `Divergent' Growth in 2015: Fisher [8:41]

BlackRock's McCombe Says Real Assets `Very Attractive' [6:40]

BlackRock released a 2015 outlook report [pdf] today. To promo it, they gave Bloomberg Television a lot of access + guests. Above are the three segments I watched, but skimming the day's videos, I see there was lots more.

Interviews above conducted by Erik Schatzker. 

notes:

Though he didn't call it out by name, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink called the (NRF black friday) retail numbers "entirely wrong," based on backchannel communication he's had w/retail CEOs. He didn't just attribute the difference to everything moving to ecommerce. Foot-traffic alone was better than reported by NRF.

[21:35]

Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker interview w/Dell's Michael Dell. 

10 public companies have approached Michael Dell for advice about going private (!?)

At around this same time, The Atlantic began to notice a huge rise in our dark social traffic. We’re talking on the order of millions of visitors—and it was all coming from mobile devices. This was in addition to the rise in Facebook traffic.

How were all these people arriving on our website from their phones, but without referrers? Were people WhatsApping links to each other? Was it e-mail sharing?

I suspected that this was not the case. Based on the spidey-sense one gets watching Chartbeat, I began to think Facebook was both responsible for the huge boost in referrals that we could see and for most of the boost in dark social traffic, too.

Bill Whitaker: So you don't hear about it until Brian Krebs breaks it? Linda Swartz: Pretty much. Barry Abramowitz: That's what makes his work so valuable.

BLAINE: ... But most people assume that it's easy because you work so hard to make it look like there's no effort.

MADONNA: But that's our job. We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved. So you don't want people to see the labor behind it. Also I was trained that, as a dancer, no matter how much you're suffering, your face is relaxed. You have to create that illusion. That's part of your job.

Mexican president Nieto sees "two Mexicos:"

northern economic powerhouse

impoverished southern states.

But

“The most violent zones in the country are not concentrated within impoverished municipalities... Violence is much more complex. This could certainly reduce political violence — protests, insurgencies, vigilante groups — associated with poverty, but not necessarily criminal violence.”