AYKFM!? I'm one of the the 2009 Silicon Alley 100! Hot dang yall

To be clear, this year's list is not a "power and influence" list. It's a list of people in the NYC digital community who did really cool stuff. So if you're powerful and influential and you're wondering why you're not on the list, maybe you just spent the year sitting around on your powerful duff.

 

via businessinsider.com

Well this is a nice surprise. Here I am working my ass off on some really cool stuff, and I find out I've been honored on a list of New Yorkers doing really cool stuff. We'll I'll be...

It's always nice to make a list of some sort, but it's actually nicer to see who else made the list, and while it's heavy on the testosterone, there is a diversity of TYPES of people that's nice to see. Here's the full set, and here are some highlights that got me really stoked to share a pageview-boosting slideshow with them

 

 

  • Daily Beast founder Tina Brown
  • Soraya Darabi, formerly of the NY Times
  • Dennis and Naveen who lovingly built Foursquare, the app I use to run this town every night (h/t Rihanna)
  • Square founder Jack Dorsey whose invention will finally let me live out my dream of operating a cashles s brothel
  • The betaworks guys whose products (chartbeat, tweetdeck, twitterfeed and bit.ly) have changed my life
  • Jason Calacanis who is the best pitchman TWiT will ever have
  • Kenyatta Cheees & Ellie Rountree of hit show Know Your Meme which is one of the best shows ever in the history of sh and ows
  • Dan Allen, who I haven't seen since college. Congrats dude! This list is like Facebook all over again. 
  • Avner from Boxee, the service that allowed me to ditch cable, which I later had to add back to see my own show on Science Channel which is how I made this list in the first place. Ah circles. Life. Things!

 

 

and so many more kickass people and companies like blip.tv, aviary, tumblr, mediaite, makerbot, chris hughes, nick billion. ok it's nick bilton, but i think he should have a stage name, and i think that stage name should be nick billion.

Awesome people. Awesome city. I'm stoked. Let's get crunk!

 

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Bad Day For Mass Transit, Planet: M.T.A. Increases Fares And Cuts Services In NYC

Updated, 11:40 a.m. | The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted on Wednesday morning to enact a series of fare hikes and service cutbacks needed to keep the transit system from going broke.

The vote was broken largely into three parts: fare hikes, toll increases and service cutbacks. After hearing from the public and the board members, the board approved each by a vote of 12 to 1.

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The fare hikes on the subway and buses, including an increase in the base subway and bus fare to $2.50, from $2, will take effect on May 31.

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The service cuts are far reaching. They include the elimination of 35 bus routes and two subway lines, the W and Z. Off-peak and weekend subway, bus and commuter rail service will also be cut back. The city comptroller’s office Web site allows you to search for the cuts by zip code.

via cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Boooooo. Part of the hangup was due to a few Democrats who didn't want tolls imposed on the Harlem and East River bridges. Their logic: "it's not fair to tax drivers to subsidize public transit."

Wrong. You SHOULD tax drivers precisely to subsidize public transit. That's how it works. You tax the bad, evil, planet-melting crap to encourage a less apocalypse-inducing lifestyle. We tax smokers to subsidize health care, and we should probably tax short-sighted, incumbent politicians to subsidize the campaigns of thinking people who will run them out of office.

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