Links for 03-23-2015

• The Peril and Promise of Early Adoption: Arriving 10 Years Early to C…
• A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
• NoSQL market frames larger debate: Can open source be profitable? | SiliconANGLE
• Think Millennials Prefer The City? Think Again. | FiveThirtyEight - “The fastest population growth right now is in the lowest-density neighborhoods, the suburb-iest suburbs,” Kolko said.
• Pre-Code: Hollywood before the censors | Deep focus | Sight & Sound | BFI
• Penn Station: A Place That Once Made Travelers Feel Important - NYTimes.com - "The design for a new Madison Square Garden was rendered in banal mid-1960s corporate vernacular by the architect (and former president of Pepsodent and Lever Brothers) Charles Luckman, who — referring to McKim’s Pennsylvania Station — admonished a reporter not to regard buildings as monuments “to the architect or to the owner.”"
• Inside Scoop SF » Din Tai Fung confirms its first Bay Area restaurant - Din Tai Fung is coming to Bay area—though alas San Jose rather than SF.
• Will Predictive Maintenance Be an Engine for Economic Transformation? | William Ruh | LinkedIn
• Photo Essay: Remembering Kodachrome - Gear Patrol
• The Price of Music | Re/code
• How we listen to music | Music Machinery - How we listen to music by @plamere (alas just slides)
• Badass Users Book Trailer on Vimeo - RT @SaraPeyton: You've heard about Kathy Sierra's Badass: Making Users Awesome. Here's her movie trailer: It's Badass!
• Reuven Cohen on Twitter: "Map: The Bay Area, Through A New Yorker's Eyes http://t.co/Qmc3utAyw8" - RT @rUv: Map: The Bay Area, Through A New Yorker's Eyes
• Richard Stallman’s GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty - The New Yorker
• Driverless cars: A tremendous innovation with a glaring Achilles’ heel - The Washington Post - RT @vpostrel: "Is one death caused by a machine error better than 10 deaths caused by human error?"
• Apple's TV service could be ready to launch by fall - Fortune - RT @poniewozik: Reported Apple TV stream intriguing, but don't hold yr breath expecting "everything I want to watch, but cheaper":
• Revealed: The best and worst of Docker | InfoWorld - RT @icecrime: Rare occurrence of an article neither 100% pro or 100% against - “The best and worst of Docker” by @syegulalp
• What Gartner’s Bimodal IT Model Means to Enterprise CIOs | CIO
• Etsy’s Success Gives Rise to Problems of Credibility and Scale - NYTimes.com - “Handmade businesses aren’t infinitely scalable, just by the definition of the term,” said Grace Dobush, a writer and longtime Etsy seller who made waves last month when she declared she was finally done with the site. “As Etsy has gotten bigger, it’s gotten more like eBay.”
• Log In - The New York Times - Etsy loses money on $196 million in revenue? Really?
• Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture Funded Media Startup — Medium - RT @jyarmis: Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture Funded Media Startup — Medium - > best read on the subject
• GigaOm Fired Staff After Struggling With Debt | Re/code - "But GigaOm’s research business had become a significant drag on the company. While it had started out as a “pro” subscription business charging individuals as much as $299 a year, after a couple of pivots, the company’s research arm was now focused on creating custom whitepapers and other products, like Webinars, for corporate clients. While that group booked $8 million in business last year, it wasn’t profitable. That was partly due to high sales and product costs and but also because some of that $8 million never materialized as the company didn’t create the work it was supposed to."