2013
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Ze Frank's FacePunch
on the potential positive and negative energy of online interactions
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Ze Frank walks a mile in another man's shoes
a joke about empathy turns into something more
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Hacker Exploits iOS Flaw for Free In-App Purchases
Smarterware · Gina Trapani
How to Stop Being Paranoid About App Annie
More Intelligent Life · Jasper Rees
RYAN GIGGS'S OLYMPIC MOMENT
~ Posted by Jasper Rees, July 10th 2012 The beautiful game is a sideshow at the five-ringed circus. But for one Olympiad only, which happens to be the one it’s hosting, the nation which invented football—soccer—is taking it sort of semi-seriously. I always assumed this was by way of a retirement gift to one of the…
The Art of Less Doing · [email protected] (Ari Meisel)
Things I Found Interesting This Week (7/6/12)
Juice Analytics · Ken Hilburn
Introducing Chart Chooser — V2!
Joel on Software · Joel Spolsky
Software Inventory
Imagine, for a moment, that you came upon a bread factory for the first time. At first it just looks like a jumble of incomprehensible machinery with a few people buzzing around. As your eyes adjust you start to see little piles of things that you do understand. Buckets of sesame seeds. Big vats of dough. Little…
Pinboard - bookmarking for introverts · [email protected] (Maciej Ceglowski)
Pinboard Turns Three
Today is the third anniversary of the site's public debut. Amusingly, I see some icons on the TechCrunch comment thread that launched Pinboard as a for-profit endeavor are already starting to break. This is why we need archiving! Here are some site stats for this year, compared with one and two years ago: 2010 2011…
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
The business of engineering healthier foods
The Art of Less Doing · [email protected] (Ari Meisel)
How To Make GMail The Ultimate Productivity Tool
Quantified Self · Gary Wolf
QS Primer: Spaced Repetition and Learning
Bustr Bensn
Reading the obits
A couple weeks ago I read about reading obits as a way to start your day. It’s great because it’s a little dose of mortality, a little bit of celebration, and it’s short, sweet, and often incredibly educational. Not to mention, completely different from all the other news you’re reading about. These are long sweeping…
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The Kleptones' Paths to Graceland mixtape
trying to track down and reconstruct the mythic tape that inspired Paul Simon
pamela fox's blog · Pamela Fox
Alternatives for After-Parties at Conferences
Seth's Blog · Seth Godin
Doing the big work (at the little table)
FreeMyFeed · Ciaran L.
Comment posted: Re: Count number of products that contain Brand info
pThanks. That#8217;s a really shitty number though. I expected it to be around 30-40%./p pI wonder do some of our feeds have mapping problems./p pMore and more, I think we need a tool to inspect the individual raw data sets. Can we put this on the roadmap when optimizing the import process. Feels like something that…
Schneier on Security · schneier
Resilience
There was a conference on resilience (highlights here, and complete videos here) earlier this year. Here's an interview with professor Sander van der Leeuw on the topic. Although he never mentions security, it's all about security. Any system, whether it’s the financial system, the environmental system, or something…
Schneier on Security · schneier
Economic Analysis of Bank Robberies
Yes, it's clever: The basic problem is the average haul from a bank job: for the three-year period, it was only £20,330.50 (~$31,613). And it gets worse, as the average robbery involved 1.6 thieves. So the authors conclude, "The return on an average bank robbery is, frankly, rubbish. It is not unimaginable wealth. It…
The Official Google Blog · A Googler
Project Re: Brief, the documentary
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
★ Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Surface vs. iPad Introduction Events
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Video of Microsoft’s Monday Surface Event
Noah Kagan's Okdork.com · Noah Kagan
Daily Accountability Marketing Metrics
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Conrad Saam
Recruiting: 12 Questions For Uncomfortably Hands-On SEO Interviews
Blog - Stack Exchange · Shog9
Election participation badges
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Pierre Far
Recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites
Google Commerce · Commerce Blog
Building a better shopping experience
The Art of Less Doing · [email protected] (Ari Meisel)
The Three D’s of Time Management and Information Filtering
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · jaffry
Creative confidence.
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Turning Patrons into Producers: Fan-Commissioned Art on Kickstarter
Wired posted my new column yesterday, an attempt to coalesce some thoughts around a trend in fan funding that isn't really happening yet, but really should be — fans hiring artists directly to make the art they want to experience and own. I've been thinking about this since 2008, and surprised it hasn't emerged yet…
Daring Fireball · Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
[Sponsor] MacUpdate June 2012 Bundle
Bustr Bensn
My take on mastery
I have been thinking a lot about mastery, and how it’s better than success, better than money, etc. Lots of good links sent around lately. But what is it? What is mastery? It makes sense a little bit when you’re talking about actually making a physical thing, but what about when you’re just trying to build something…
Neil Gaiman's Journal · [email protected] (Neil)
Graduation, and further commencement fall-out...
Today, Maddy, my youngest daughter, graduated from High School. I was asked if I'd like to deliver the address, but declined. I wanted to be a dad, and sit in the audience with my family and beam proudly, and wander around taking photographs afterwards of Maddy and all her friends. And that's what I did. It was…
information aesthetics
Hans Rosling's Shortest Talk Ever
One does not require flashy Powerpoint slides or state exact statistical numbers to be able to convey an educational yet compelling presentation. Nor should the presentation need to take that long. Hans Rosling, who is already known to use physical props during his presentations, ranging from IKEA storage boxes, over…
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Chris Poole's talk on the shifting meme landscape at ROFLCon
the shift away from interest-based web communities towards social networks
Kalzumeus Software · Patrick