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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 25 – September 1, 2007 171 stories · Vol. 07 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 244 Get it by email ↓
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Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Business 19 stories

  1. Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

  2. The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 9: How to hire a professional CEO

  3. An interesting take on hackers vs. businesspeople

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  1. SeedCamp Finalists Chosen (The European Y Combinator-like seed fund)

  2. Interesting stats on tech startups – only 16% fail?

  3. Sequoia Capital to Yale: "Invest or else"

  4. Michael Lewis: In Nature's Casino (How Wall Street is trying to quantify the risk of catastrophic weather)

Sports 5 stories

  1. The Startup Game: How Anywhere.fm is building a hit niche

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  1. College Drinking Game Spurs Cottage Industry; Mr. Best's Backup Career

  2. Fred Wilson: The End Of The Install Game (For Facebook apps, usage matters now, not installs)

  3. Crystal Tower, the startup dorm, loses elevator service

Technology 137 stories

  1. The Internet Is As Dead And Boring As You Want It To Be

  2. Flight Simulator hidden inside Google Earth

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  1. How Not to Die

  2. Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School

  3. Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw

  4. PG on Y Combinator

  5. New Book from O'Reilly: Programming Collective Intelligence

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. Paul Graham and Walt Disney

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  1. Justin.TV on Yahoo news

  2. Nokia's new N-Gage service enables multiplayer gaming between phones

  3. Nick Cave's letter to MTV (from 1996)

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