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Coding Horror · Jeff Atwood
Your Community Door
What are the real world consequences to signing up for a Twitter or Facebook account through Tor and spewing hate toward other human beings? Facebook reviewed the comment I reported and found it doesn't violate their Community Standards. pic.twitter.com/p9syG7oPM1— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) October 15, 2014 As far…
Social · Kevan Lee
How to Share Old Blogposts on Social Media: 5 Quick Tips for Getting More Out of Your Archives
Social media advice seems to come in two flavors: what to do and how to do it. Take, for instance, the advice to reshare content from your blog’s archives. This strategy seems to pay big dividends for the accounts who’ve embraced it. They’ve seen more traffic, more reshares, and more engagement even though the…
Monday Note · Frédéric Filloux
How Facebook and Google Now Dominate Media Distribution
The news media sector has become heavily dependent on traffic from Facebook and Google. A reliance now dangerously close to addiction. Maybe it’s time to refocus on direct access. Digital publishers pride themselves on their ability to funnel traffic from search and social, namely Google and Facebook (we’ll see that…
Waxy.org Links
Gamergate vs. ELIZA
some genius set up the classic chatbot to reply to #NotYourShield tweets
ParisLemon
"He left Steve holding a big bag of shit."
“He left Steve holding a big bag of shit.” - An unnamed former Microsoft executive talking about Bill Gates handing over the reins of the company to Steve Ballmer in 2000.
ThinkUp Blog · michellej
Exercise Your Power of Promotion
We’ve just released a new ThinkUp insight that helps you tap into your inner promotion power. The follower comparison insight alerts you when your reach-the number of people who see your tweets-exceeds that of those you follow. In other words, ThinkUp lets you know exactly how much exposure you can give your friends…
The Message — Medium · Anil Dash
The tech diversity story that’s not being told.
We’ve had countless conversations about the horrible track record of the tech industry when it comes to the inclusion of anyone who isn’t a…Continue reading on Medium »
Dinosaur Comics!
maybe the 15th century artists only reinvented it, maybe the greeks knew about it and we all forgot, maybe maybe maybe
archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about← previousOctober 8th, 2014nextOctober 8th, 2014: PROOF: You want perspective WE GOT PERSPECTIVE– Ryan
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Trouble at the Koolaid Point
Kathy Sierra's brilliant, upsetting deconstruction of her online harassment
Schneier on Security · schneier
iPhone Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars
Rands in Repose · rands
Elon on the Future of Humanity
Via Aeon: ‘If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way,’ he said. ‘And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.’#
The Message — Medium · Robin Sloan
Selling on the slider
Prices are getting weird.Continue reading on Medium »
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onlylolgifs: Unlocking every iPhone at once The world’s...
onlylolgifs: Unlocking every iPhone at once The world’s most expensive xylophone.
OkDork.com · Paul Shapiro
We Analyzed the 3,000 Most Successful LinkedIn Publishing Posts
This is a post by Paul Shapiro. Make sure you check out his blog, Search Wilderness and follow him on Twitter. *** LinkedIn has opened the floodgates to a world of content with their new publishing platform and it’s an amazing way to expose your writing to a highly-professional network of readers. Top influencers are…
BBH Labs · Mel Exon
Code and Creativity
This post is an adapted and extended version of one of our monthly tech columns written for Marketing Magazine. The original article appeared in Marketing on July 28th, 2014. Illustration for Griffin Farley’s Beautiful Minds, by Kate Moross, Breed. Recently I’ve been perplexed why a debate still rages in the…
Navjot pawera · n4vgipsyd4ng3r
Via Medium: “Presenting design” in Here at buUuk
“Presenting design” in Here at buUuk
Waxy.org Links
5 Things I Learned as the Internet's Most Hated Person
Zoe Quinn summarizes the insanely stupid manufactured "controversy" that is GamerGate
Craig Mod - The Sputnik Journal · Craig Mod
Ebooks for All
Social · Kevan Lee
How Much of Yourself Do You Share on Social Media?
Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter offer a unique opportunity to get close to people who are hundreds of miles away. You can share anything with anyone at any time. You can share. Does this mean that you should share? I’ve come up against this question many times, hovering over the Send button on a status…
Social · Neil Patel
How to Save Six Hours a Week on Social Media
You know the feeling. You’re sitting there, staring at your hands, at the keyboard, at the screen, at the ceiling. You’re supposed to post something on Twitter, but you have no idea what to post. I’ve been there before. I think we’ve all been there. Everything that comes to mind seems lame. Slogans, links, articles,…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2014-09-11
Open Invention Network Symposium on Open Source Software and Patents in Context Dublin, 24th September 2014, hosted by Enterprise Ireland. Hosted by former Ubuntu counsel (via gcarr) (tags: via:gcarr ubuntu law legal open-source floss oss oin inventions patents swpat software ireland ei events) Chris Baus: TCP_CORK:…
Craig Mod - The Sputnik Journal · Craig Mod
Coming Home: NYT Now
Inside Facebook · Justin Lafferty
Can a CEO or star employee boost your Facebook engagement?
As organic reach continues to decline, Facebook page admins are looking for any way to get their messages read by more of their fans. Some companies are experiencing success by operating two pages: one for the...
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Annelieke van den Berg
Tracking your SEO with Google Analytics: a how-to
At Yoast, we’re known for giving you numerous tips to improve your site’s SEO. However, how do you know whether those tips are actually working for you? There are a number of tools out there that can help you track your SEO, but most of them will cost you money. And, in the end, it’s obviously just […]
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Analytics without action
Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.
Yoast · Joost de Valk
Google Analytics by Yoast, V5: Universal Support
We’ve been working hard on our Google Analytics plugin and are proud to release version 5.0, with universal support, today. With all the changes Google had made to Analytics and with our improved development experience we decided we’d be better off with a full rewrite. We’ve redone some of the features, killed a few…
90 Percent Of Everything · Heather Burns
Some Dark Patterns now illegal in UK – interview with Heather Burns
In this article I interview Heather Burns, author of The Web Designer’s Guide to the Consumer Rights Directive. So, which dark patterns are now illegal in the UK? The EU’s new consumer rights law bans certain dark patterns related to … Continue reading
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Dan Kaminsky on the Implications of Underground Celebrity Photo Theft Rings
ParisLemon
How did Apple never think of this? It’s the damn iTunes icon!
How did Apple never think of this? It’s the damn iTunes icon!
A Whole Lotta Nothing · mathowie
The Eye-Fi mobi card is the real deal
Back in 2006, I was an avid user of Flickr and was asked to help test a new camera card that was going to offer uploading via WiFi. At the...
Feed: stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
The iPhone 6: From Louis Vuitton to Chanel
Yves Carcelle, who, in the words of the New York Times “transformed Louis Vuitton from a staid French maker of handbags and travel trunks into one of the world’s most recognizable luxury brands” died over the weekend. I have a short note in today’s Daily Update (members only) that compared Louis Viutton to Apple:…
ParisLemon
The Soderberghian style, sex, and settings of 'Out Of Sight'
The Soderberghian style, sex, and settings of 'Out Of Sight': Noel Murray: We should acknowledge how great George Clooney is in this movie. Jennifer Lopez is wonderful too—so much so that it’s a shame she didn’t stay the course as a movie star, rather than focusing so much of her energy on pop music—but Clooney has…
Yoast · Joost de Valk
WordPress SEO Tutorial Videos
One of the returning questions we get from customers is for better tutorial videos for our SEO plugin. That’s no “simple” thing as we quite regularly update the plugin and add new features to it, changing the interface. So we’ve teamed up with Shawn Hesketh, from WP101, who has created (and will continue to update)…
Yoast · Willemien Hallebeek
Clean up your site structure: how to reorganize your website
At a certain point, your website can grow to a monstrous collection of pages. You may realize that you have too many items in your menu and that the coherence of your website is nowhere to be found. Time to clean this mess up! But where to start? It’s a tough job, and sometimes it […] The post Clean up your site…
Assembla Blog · [email protected] (Andy Singleton)
Make Fast IT work for you
Fast IT projects are Web sites, mobile apps, digital marketing, SaaS integrations, and other projects that need monthly or weekly planning. We find a lot of these projects on Assembla. The Fast IT concept has been helpful for our customers who are trying to manage these projects with increasing professionalism. We…
ThinkUp Blog · michellej
"Have you heard of evaporative social cooling? It says the people who provide the most value to a..."
“Have you heard of evaporative social cooling? It says the people who provide the most value to a social group or organization eventually burn out and leave, undermining the stability and progress of the group. Most of my internet friends have been on Twitter since 2008, so they probably fall into this group. How…
Asymco · Horace Dediu
Apparel is next
If software can be injected into an industry’s product it will bend to the will of the software writers. This theory expands on Marc Andreessen’s observation that “software is eating the world”. The evidence is that software, coupled with microprocessors, sensors, batteries and networking becomes applicable to an…
timoni.org
"Ever seen Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs? Forget about it. Marketers still learn it in school,..."
“Ever seen Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs? Forget about it. Marketers still learn it in school, but psychologists left it behind a long time ago. There are 14 things that humans will always be motivated to gain or protect: Avoiding death, avoiding pain, air, water, food, homeostasis (bodily functions), sleep, sex,…
Marco.org
The Wirecutter’s Headphones
Lauren Dragan’s guide at The Wirecutter, The Best $300 Over-Ear Headphones, was updated yesterday, the same day I published my similar mega-review.1 We agree on a lot: our opinions are very close on the PSB M4U 1 (their top pick), B&O H6, and B&W P7. We only have a few major disagreements: They dismissed my…
ParisLemon
"The sick thing is that these companies are selling to those who are less fortunate. I really think..."
“The sick thing is that these companies are selling to those who are less fortunate. I really think that manufacturing a product that you know is killing people should be against the law and that you should prosecute those who do it. It’s murder like anything else.” - Michael Bloomberg, talking to The New York Times…
Inside Facebook · Mary Long
Inspiration is the new currency for Facebook likes
The Facebook marketing free ride is over (in case you haven’t heard), and brands are scrambling to find a free way to interact with potential clients. So what is the new currency for Facebook likes? When thinking of...
Pinboard - bookmarking for introverts · [email protected] (Maciej Ceglowski)
Sunsetting Delicious
Since the birth of the site, Pinboard has always offered a Delicious sync feature. You could enter your Delicious username on the settings page, and the site would periodically poll your public Delicious feed and add any new bookmarks it found. Because Delicious appears to be in a terminal coma, and because working…
The Morning News - Headlines
August 19, 2014
Ferguson PD—95% white in a city that’s two-thirds black—needs more black officers and fewer heavy weapons. Ta-Nehisi Coates on America’s history of total police control over black bodies. No longer Invisible Man: Jordan Casteel’s paintings of black men. This is how the sun sees you. UV light reveals otherwise…
davetrott · Dave Trott
PURPOSE BEYOND PROFIT
A J Lovewins was living on the streets of Seattle for five years. He managed to get off the streets by helping run a soup kitchen. For people, like himself, who just needed a break. Read more on PURPOSE BEYOND PROFIT…