Daily Archives: 04/23/2012

Twilight of the Elites

(Community Matters) Christopher Hayes’ book, Twilight of the Elites will be released June 12. Most of our friends know his brother, Luke Hayes, our godson.

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another –  from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence.

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901 million Facebook Users

(Community Matters) Wow – 901 million Facebook users. New stats from amended S1 filing

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Talk About Disruptive Innovation

(Community Matters) from Playbook:

FIRST LOOK – “Hill+Knowlton Strategies Launches Influence Point … Hill+Knowlton Strategies [today will launch] a new service called Influence Point … With H+K Influence Point, companies can serve online ads directly to individuals identified as influencers. H+K’s combined research and digital teams have developed a proprietary methodology for identifying universes of financial, media and political influencers. These audiences can then be served display, video and mobile ads. This allows companies to dramatically decrease wasteful spending on large online ad buys targeted at specific audiences, even on the most accredited news sites.

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Austin Population Growth

(Community Matters) pinched this from a Tom Spencer posting on Facebook

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Conservative Donors

(Community Matters) Promise I’m not trying to be partisan here. I’m seriously interested in different perspectives when my friends and followers read this Frank Rich New York piece – please send me a note or comment.