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Last week, my friend Jessamyn rounded up a list of Internet Resolutions from the writers of The Message, the blog/zine/thing I contribute to on Medium. I don't normally make New Year's Resolutions, online or off, but I made an exception this year. Here's mine: "Block with abandon. I spent far too many emotional…
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don't miss the last part on female authorship and credit
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first time running the insane credits warp glitch on an actual console
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tons of great advice in here that goes far beyond feminist/tech pubs
Asymco · Horace Dediu
Last August I wrote: It’s therefore reasonable to assume that calendar 2014 will see at least 250 million iOS devices sold The actual figure was 259.5 million. Looking ahead, the capital spending pattern so far shows a distinct rise heading into Q1. This could be partly due to the new campus, the new Watch production…
Schneier on Security · schneier
Jane Dallaway
Yesterday, at 11am, my Mum died. Dementia had taken away her ability to communicate with me several years ago. The 30YearsAgoToday project was a way to get her voice back into my life. By tweeting extracts from her journals I got her language, and her tone of voice, via text messages every evening at around 9pm.…
The Message — Medium · Jessamyn West
A hyperlinked timeline of our g-vorce.Continue reading on Medium »
The Message — Medium · danah boyd
We must all be careful of over-reading individual stories. Teens’ use of social media is significantly shaped by race, class, etc.Continue reading on Medium »
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Andrew Sullivan1 is, as undoubtedly you’ve heard, leaving his eponymous blog: I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. I’m a human being before I am a writer; and a writer before I am a blogger, and although it’s been a joy and a privilege to have helped pioneer a genuinely new…
stevenf.com · stevenf
“…at some point in the not to distant future, a jury will be shown a photo that was altered without a single human being involved, without a trace of awareness by the prosecution, defence, judge, accused, or victim.”
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Dan Hon commented: The thing - ha - about the internet-of-things is that it's a weird descriptor. from a consumer point of view, for most things, why would it have wifi if it couldn't be connected, in some way, to the internet? Which is sort of the position that all of this IoT business is a temporary blip and that…
DESIGNER NOTES · Soren Johnson
This post is a development journal from our Offworld forum. The game is available for pre-order here. Although I have worked on Offworld Trading Company for over a year now, I still struggle to know how to first describe the game. It’s a game about making money. It’s a game about colonizing Mars. It’s a real-time…
Asymco · Horace Dediu
The “Stupid manager theory of company failure” (and its corollary, the “Smart manager theory of company success”[1]) remains the most popular, perhaps even the most universally accepted theory of management. Book after book, thoughtful article after article alludes to this theory and whenever a company is perceived…
Dinosaur Comics!
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Amelia Greenhall on scriptogr.am
I am very hopeful that other intersectional feminist tech publications - possibly many others - will start in the coming year. This blog post is my way of supporting these nascent publications: an offering of everything I've learned about starting and running publishing companies. After I wrote a blog post (What it…
Amelia Greenhall on scriptogr.am
Photos from the Model View Culture launch party by Jana Boruta and Chris Dancy. Shanley is on the left, I am on the right. One year ago, in January 2014, I hit the enter key and launched Model View Culture, a new publication and media platform focused on technology, culture, and diversity. Later that month, I stood…
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Blog – Official site of Stephen Fry · Stephen Fry
Take this business of autobiography. A man or woman gets to a certain age, a certain prominence, if one dare use the word, and a publisher asks them to put down the story of their life in book form. The post Writing a selfie appeared first on Official site of Stephen Fry.
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Paul Graham: If something that seems like work to other people doesn’t seem like work to you, that’s something you’re well suited for. ∞ Permalink
ParisLemon
"It was the greatest piece of writing I ever saw, better'n anybody in America...": John Rogers on a 16,000-word letter Neal Cassady wrote to Jack Kerouac in 1950: Kerouac told The Paris Review in 1968 that poet Allen Ginsberg loaned the letter to a friend who lived on a houseboat in Northern California. Kerouac…
The Ad Contrarian · [email protected] (BOB HOFFMAN)
According to the Association of National Advertisers, $6.3 billion of advertisers' money will be stolen by online ad fraud this year. Globally, Solve Media puts the number at $11.6 billion.According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau about 1/3 of online ads paid for by advertisers never appear before a human…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Bitsplitting.org · Daniel Jalkut
Recently Marco Arment bemoaned Apple’s use of push notifications for promotional purposes. Apple sent a notification promoting their project (RED) products for sale in the App Store, which Marco judged as user-hostile and in poor taste, even if it can be argued it was “for a good cause.” I tend to agree with Marco on…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
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Xiaomi, the Chinese smart phone company that late last month raised $1.1 billion at a $45 billion valuation, sells way more than smartphones: Mi.com boasts over a thousand items, and it’s the third-largest e-commerce site in China. One item it doesn’t sell, though, is a AA battery charger. Only Apple: I clearly…
RescueTime Blog · Robby Macdonell
A little over a year ago, we quietly added a little feature to RescueTime Premium called daily highlights. It was basically just a “notes” section that someone could use to write down what they got done during the day. It seemed like it might be a relatively simple solution to something that had been bugging me for a…
Fresh & New(er) · Seb Chan
Like many of my friends who work in museums, media or related disciplines, I’ve been feeling the pressure of being ‘too busy to blog’. Not just to blog, but to write anything really. But in the spirit of Dan Hon (who has trained himself to be able to write eloquent things at the hardest of […]
ThinkUp Blog · anil
From the beginning of our work on ThinkUp, we’ve started each new feature or improvement by asking a simple question: How does this make people feel? In fact, that’s the first item on the checklist that we use when building new insights. And the reason for this is simple—we’re explicitly trying to make an app that…
ParisLemon
Why is everyone so busy?: The Economist with some important elements of time and work to remember as we break for this holiday season: The problem, then, is less how much time people have than how they see it. Ever since a clock was first used to synchronise labour in the 18th century, time has been understood in…
Interconnected · Matt Webb
The courier firm City Link went into administration on Christmas Eve. We were waiting for some gifts to be delivered, so we went to the Swindon depot a few days later to pick up the packages. Pretty bleak as you can imagine. Workers milling around, finding out whether they're being officially laid off or not. Staff…
Interconnected · Matt Webb
I spent 30 minutes yesterday making up a fresh batch of garam masala. It's a curry staple so I use it a bunch -- but usually I buy it pre-blended. That's a problem because the flavour is not consistent between brands... everyone has their favourite blend and personally I don't like my garam masala too peppery. So…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
“But why?”, one may ask. Those who don’t ask it will know and will never be able to sufficiently explain or articulate.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Web Performance Today · Tammy Everts
Security and performance are incredibly closely entwined, and in some circles it's a little-known fact that a cyberattack can have as much -- if not more -- impact on web performance as it has on downtime. Here are a few security/performance insights from Radware's annual Global Application and Network Security…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
Attitudes about potatoes among Millennials are very positive. Eighty-nine percent rate potatoes “excellent” or “good” for being a good value, and 88 percent rate potatoes “excellent” or “good” for being something everyone would enjoy. In fact, potatoes rate highest on what’s most important to Millennials. — United…
doxa
Woke up at 5am to bike ourselves to the top of an old monastery to watch the sunrise. Probably one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life. Of the 10,000+ that were originally built, over 3,200 temples remain in this ancient city kissed by the morning sun. Foreverness. 🙏 🙌 #bagan #burma (at Old Bagan)
OPEN URBANISM · debbie ding
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO · Matt Cutts
The week before XOXO, a festival dedicated to independent artists and creators, I was in Juneau, Alaska for a cruise with my wife and my parents. I got off the ship with my Dad and we walked around town. We kept walking, past the touristy stores selling smoked salmon and tanzanite. We walked for a […]
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
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One of the challenges of writing on the Internet – of writing in general, in fact – is the understandable propensity of readers to draw but one conclusion from what you intend to be a nuanced piece. I was reminded of this the past few weeks as Philip Elmer-DeWitt wrote Apple and the Crisis of Disruption and…
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It’s hard to have a conversation with anyone in tech without the word “scale” entering the conversation; “Internet scale” is a particularly popular variation of the term. Scale is a concept that is at the root of most venture investing: because software has zero marginal cost – one copy costs just as much as 100, or…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Annelieke van den Berg
Google Analytics is a powerful tool. However, it does take quite some time to get used to it, which is why many people are missing out on a lot of functionalities. They simply don’t know some options exists. So today, I’ll explain a feature that I find very useful: Google Analytics dashboards. Here, you’ll read what…
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I’ve greatly enjoyed my Synology NAS, the DS1813+,1 for over a year, but I hadn’t found a good cloud-backup solution until now. Arq to S3 or Glacier Arq runs on a Mac, not on the Synology itself, and can back up any mounted file shares to Amazon S3 or Glacier. Arq works well, but S3’s pricing can get prohibitive:…
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One would not normally draw a connection from a company like Largan Precision (TPE:3008), a small Taiwanese component supplier, to the publishing industry. But it was a very insightful observation from another Taiwanese company’s CEO – Acer founder Stan Stih – about what he called the “Smiling Curve” that created the…