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Seems I didn’t take my NTD5 change from 7/11 and what did...
Seems I didn’t take my NTD5 change from 7/11 and what did they do? They mailed it to me…wow #respect #goodservice
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Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
Both Sides of the Table - Medium · Mark Suster
The Morning After. What Have We Done?
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Why Twitter Must Be Saved
First, a reposting of an old Stratechery article, Rebuilding the World Technology Destroyed. Then, why Twitter is an essential antidote to Facebook and must be preserved.
Howdy - Medium · Ben Brown
Botkit, now with love from Microsoft and IBM Watson
Both Sides of the Table - Medium · Mark Suster
And Then They Came for Me …
Anil Dash · Anil
There is no “technology industry”
The label’s become too big to be useful, and tech could suffer for it. Quick: What do an auto leasing provider, a condiment company and...
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Kara Swisher on Tech’s White Male Problem
Kara Swisher, as quoted by Karis Hustad at Harvard’s Tech Conference 22: When you look up at a board room and you look around and you see 10 white men and you don’t understand you have a problem, I want to know what happens to you. How can’t you see it? It’s a huge problem, […]◉
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Google Cans ‘CEO’ of Google Access, Halts Expansion of Google Fiber
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The New York Times Is Buying the Wirecutter for More Than $30 Million
Subtraction.com + Feed · Khoi
Lessons from Branding the Clinton Campaign
One of the unexpected revelations from the Clinton campaign emails released by Wikileaks is an interesting exchange on the process…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Two Twitter Offers Rumoured to Have Dissolved Due to Trolls
Alex Sherman, Chris Palmeri, and Sarah Frier, Bloomberg: Walt Disney Co. decided not to pursue a bid for Twitter Inc. partly out of concern that bullying and other uncivil forms of communication on the social media site might soil the company’s wholesome family image, according to people familiar with management’s…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
NYT Chief Counsel David McCraw on the Response to His Letter to Trump’s Lawyers
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The New York Times’s General Counsel Responds to Donald Trump’s Threat of a Lawsuit
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
John Scalzi: ‘Trump, the GOP, and the Fall’
PotPieGirl.com · PotPieGirl
How I Increased My Blog Traffic By 189.4% In 30 Days
Well, I gotta tell ya, Last month was a darn good month for traffic (and sales) to a little test site of mine from Pinterest. What I’m doing to get more traffic and clicks from Pinterest is REALLY WORKING! I even impressed myself…haha! I managed to increase the traffic by 189.4% in ONE month. Yes, that is almost…
Clive Thompson · Clive
The odd pleasures of reading Proust on a mobile phone
A year ago I wrote an essay about reading War and Peace on my iPhone. If you missed it, why hey! You can read the whole essay here! When people found out what I was doing, they often claimed it was aesthetically bonkers. Isn’t it uncomfortable and weird, they wondered, to read such a massive book in tiny […]
MailChimp Email Marketing BlogMailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Brandon
Make the Most of Your Holiday Marketing with Our Helpful Tips
For many businesses, the holidays are one of the most hectic—and important—times of the year. A successful holiday season can ensure the calendar year ends on a high note for your business, but it can also generate positive momentum that you can build on for the future. Even though the holidays are technically still…
Kalzumeus Software · Patrick
I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas
I’m joining Stripe to work on Atlas. Let me tell you why. (If you don’t know me, howdy, I’m Patrick. I’ve run a succession of small software businesses from Japan for the last 10 years. They’re documented in a bit of depth on this blog and in HN comments, conference presentations, and the like.) Some […]
Yoast · Edwin Toonen
How ‘near me’ searches can help your local SEO
Google keeps getting better at handling near me searches. Needless to say, mobile is the de facto way for most people to search for businesses and products — especially while out and about. Location-based ‘everything’ needs to be taken into account while optimizing the mobile and local SEO for location-dependent…
OkDork.com · Noah Kagan
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey – Book Review
You can always improve yourself. There’s always something you can do that can make you better at work, at home, or in life. Stephen R. Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People covers how anyone can adapt themselves to change and to use what life throws at them to their advantage. * * * You always reap…
Stephen Wolfram Blog · Stephen Wolfram
How to Teach Computational Thinking
The Computational Future Computational thinking is going to be a defining feature of the future—and it’s an incredibly important thing to be teaching to kids today. There’s always lots of discussion (and concern) about how to teach traditional mathematical thinking to kids. But looking to the future, this pales in…
Jane Dallaway
Internet password book
I popped into WHSmiths after work to buy some wrapping paper. Whilst I was there I spotted this. So I picked it up to have a look at it. And discovered that on the bottom of the front page was this disclaimer which made me shudder. As if encouraging people to write down passwords wasn’t bad enough. Telling them that…
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don't…
Stories by Buster Benson on Medium · Buster Benson
"Cognitive bias cheat sheet" in Better Humans
Because thinking is hard.Continue reading on Better Humans »
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
14 Excerpts From the FBI’s Report on Hillary Clinton’s Email
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Google Shelves Project Ara
Me, a little over a year ago: Serious question: would non-nerds like to assemble their own smartphone? Julia Love, Reuters, today: Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push to…
prosthetic knowledge
MocoShort film from Stiller Studios celebrates the 30th birthday...
MocoShort film from Stiller Studios celebrates the 30th birthday of Pixar’s groundbreaking 3D animation Luxo Jr, recreating it using robotic motion cameras:On August 17th 1986, the geniuses at Pixar released a short film that would change the way we make films, forever.Here are our motion control robots programmed to…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Tony Edward
Is your HTTPS setup causing SEO issues?
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Ginny Marvin
UPDATED: A visual history of Google ad labeling in search results
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Barry Schwartz
Google: There is no PageRank dilution when using 301, 302, or 30x redirects anymore
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Facebook Says That It Will Override Ad Blockers
Andrew Bosworth of Facebook, in a press release euphemistically titled “A New Way to Control the Ads You See on Facebook, and an Update on Ad Blocking”: We’ve designed our ad formats, ad performance and controls to address the underlying reasons people have turned to ad blocking software. When we asked people about…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Google Debuts New Photos Commercial
This ad is perfect. The only reason it exists is because Apple has decided to be stingy with their storage offerings: the iPhone still starts at 16 GB, and iCloud offers just 5 GB for free. It may only be an extra dollar per month to get 50 GB of storage, but why does it […]◉
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
Hacking the Vote
Russia has attacked the US in cyberspace in an attempt to influence our national election, many experts have concluded. We need to take this national security threat seriously and both respond and defend, despite the partisan nature of this particular attack. There is virtually no debate about that, either from the…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Over 100 Redesigned and More Diverse Emoji Coming With iOS 10
Apple PR: More than one hundred new and redesigned emoji characters will be available to iPhone and iPad users this fall with iOS 10. This exciting update brings more gender options to existing characters, including new female athletes and professionals, adds beautiful redesigns of popular emoji, a new rainbow flag…
Waxy.org Links
Only 9% of America chose Trump and Clinton as the nominees
elegant visualization from the New York Times
Why Not? — Medium · Eric Soelzer
Bots for Higher Education — an interview with Drew Magliozzi of AdmitHub
When I started reviewing the earliest proposals to speak at Talkabot, the submission from AdmitHub really jumped out at me. In short, this…Continue reading on Why Not? »
The Art of Less Doing · Florence Bout
The Art of Less Doing - Chapter 1
This week, we’re going to do something special.Rather than post our regular blog, we’re going to give you access to Chapter 1 of my new book, The Art of Less Doing.The book is an in-depth exploration of my revolutionary Optimize, Automate, Outsource methodology, and valuable lessons derived from the 80/20 rule, the 3…
The Ad Contrarian · [email protected] (BOB HOFFMAN)
Kev Sticks Little Weenie In Big Mouth
Kev, Kev, Kev... when are you going to learn to keep your stupid fucking mouth shut?As regular readers know, I have a love-hate relationship with Saatchi & Saatchi Chief Global Douchinator Kevin Roberts. I love to ridicule his pompous horseshit (like here, here, and here) but I hate to listen to his dopey…
Wondermark · David Malki
#1236; In which a Reminder is constant
Dinosaur Comics!
i was gonna say this is a regional saying but my research shows it's used all over the place and each region thinks they invented it so OH WELL
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Both Sides of the Table — Medium · Mark Suster
Another Major Win for LA Tech
Waxy.org Links
I'm With the Banned
ferocious and sad Laurie Penny piece on MIlo, Trump, and weaponized insincerity
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
‘The Internet Is Turning Us All Into Sociopaths’
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Dollar Shave Club and The Disruption of Everything
Dollar Shave Club is a textbook example of how the new Internet economy will destroy value in incumbent industries.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Facebook, Life’s New Gatekeeper
I don’t want to be a writer — now or ever — who tries desperately to find a tech angle for major news stories. In the case of the murders this week of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five police officers in Dallas, it is especially pertinent to place empathy, listening, and compassion ahead of […]◉