Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
The Art of Non-Conformity · Chris Guillebeau
Greetings, friends and readers! I’d like to welcome you to my new blog and online home. Over the past few months, I’ve been working on an all-new layout and structure for the blog. I wanted to make these changes for two reasons. 1. It’s always good to change it up. Never rest on your laurels!... Read More
Dinosaur Comics!
archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about← previousJuly 1st, 2014nextJuly 1st, 2014: Behold, a comic that uses "race" as in "running quickly" and as in "concept of genetic identity" in the same strip! AND I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THAT UNTIL AFTER I'D WRITTEN IT EITHER!! All I can say is WOW um I…
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The Ping-Pong Theory of Tech Sexism, by Ariel Schrag. This interview is the best reflection I’ve read of how I feel being a woman in the tech industry. I get more respect than a lot of my female coworkers, being on the product side and somewhat technically aware, but I don’t get guy-level respect. My ideas are…
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Eric
With our latest release, we’re introducing easy ways for you to customize the way your campaigns look on social networks, debuting two new ways to segment recipients for your campaigns, and adding three new international currencies. Social Cards Have you ever wished you could control which thumbnails were used when…
John Foreman, Data Scientist - Blog
In the early days of cinema, Soviet filmmakers were fascinated with film editing, i.e. placing shots in an arranged order. One of these filmmakers (and possibly the first film theorist), Lev Kuleshov, proposed that the emotional power of cinema lay not in the images themselves but in the way they were edited…
True Ventures · tony
about.me started as a four person company…with 26 advisors. When Ryan Freitas, Tim Young and I founded about.me, we met with all of the people we respect and trust, sharing our ideas and helping to build a community around the product we wanted to create and the company we wanted to build. Somewhere in the middle of…
danah boyd | apophenia · zephoria
I’m intrigued by the reaction that has unfolded around the Facebook “emotion contagion” study. (If you aren’t familiar with this, read this primer.) As others have pointed out, the practice of A/B testing content is quite common. And Facebook has a long history of experimenting on how it can influence people’s…
danah boyd | apophenia · zephoria
In the recent Frontline documentary “Generation Like,” Doug Rushkoff lamented that today’s youth don’t even know what the term “sell-out” means. While this surprised Rushkoff and other fuddy duddies, it didn’t make me blink for a second. Of course this term means nothing to them. Why do we think it should? The…
Stephen Wolfram Blog · Stephen Wolfram
Twenty-six years ago today we launched Mathematica 1.0. And I am excited that today we have what I think is another historic moment: the launch of Wolfram Programming Cloud—the first in a sequence of products based on the new Wolfram Language. My goal with the Wolfram Language in general—and Wolfram Programming Cloud…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
NYC generates hash-anonymised data dump, which gets reversed There are about 1000*26**3 = 21952000 or 22M possible medallion numbers. So, by calculating the md5 hashes of all these numbers (only 24M!), one can completely deanonymise the entire data. Modern computers are fast: so fast that computing the 24M hashes…
we make money not art · Regine
Jennifer Lyn Morone has turned herself into a corporation and collection of marketable goods and services. Everything she is biologically and intellectually, everything she does, learns and creates has the potential to be turned into profits. Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc is a graduation project in Design Interactions but…
Schneier on Security · schneier
ParisLemon
It’s No Longer A Smartphone, It’s A Smartcamera
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Ginny Marvin
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · [email protected]
As part of my ongoing interest in mobile technology, I’ve been closely watching the wearables market and making use of many early products. From smart watches and glasses to fitness bands and clips, here’s what I’ve found to actually be valuable in wearable tech. After many months of using different wearables, I…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
In the next week or so, there's going to be a major change here. After publishing the blog in the
The Art of Less Doing · Ari Meisel
When I first started my podcast, it was a ton of work on my part and I was really only able to get out a new episode every month or so. It's obviously really hard to build traction and an audience without some sort of momentum. Nowadays, I put out an episode each week and everything about the podcast has gotten…
ParisLemon
electrostaticlove: Something I always remind myself… Adventure.
Chris Hates Writing
I am a supreme procrastinator. I also don’t spend my leisure time wisely. Stick me in front of a computer with an internet connection, and I’ll amaze you with my ability to make time evaporate with little or nothing to show for it. Suffice it to say, it really bothers me. As someone who doesn’t believe in an…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Tracedump a single application IP packet sniffer that captures all TCP and UDP packets of a single Linux process. It consists of the following elements: * ptrace monitor – tracks bind(), connect() and sendto() syscalls and extracts local port numbers that the traced application uses; * pcap sniffer – using…
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO · Matt Cutts
Hey everybody, I’m looking for some fun books (mostly fiction) to read this summer. What would you recommend? One book I recently enjoyed was The Martian, a novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars who needs to figure out how to survive and get home with minimal supplies. It was a little heavy on the […]
A Computer Scientist in a Business School · Panos Ipeirotis
Schneier on Security · schneier
Careers 2.0 Blog · Bethany Marzewski
Let’s say you’re looking to fill a CTO-level role for your organization. Maybe your company is looking for someone with 10-15 years of experience who has managed a development team for at least four years. Depending on your company’s goals, you may have other requirements, such as hiring someone who will successfully…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Waxy.org Links
the FBI and legal system ruined his life and business to get access to Snowden and 410,000 others
The Official Google Blog · Emily Wood
OkDork.com · Eric Siu
I kept seeing Team Treehouse ads on YouTube and was curious how they were performing. So I got introduced to Eric who used to work at Treehouse and did all their YouTube advertising. He was very generous to share below what exactly worked for him with YouTube advertising. A channel that is massive and largely…
ParisLemon
"Stop freaking out and enjoy your life.": Scotty Loveless: One thing I found in my Genius Bar experience is that people that are anxious about their iOS device battery life are constantly checking it to see the percentage and how much it has dropped from the last time they checked it. So if you check your device…
Singapore Mini Maker Faire · megadolen
Crocheting has always been close to my heart, something which I learnt from my Godmother and from my Primary School’s Art Club. I always find it therapeutic. However, I do not have much friends who share the same hobby and I also crochet less as I started picking up other hobbies later on in life. […]
Rands in Repose · rands
Coming in at 164 slides, Mary Meeker (partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers) delivers a massive annual State of the Internet deck each year and it’s worth reading a couple of times. The report provides framing and background to many of the tech-related news stories of the past year. My brief notes: I’ve been…
Rands in Repose · rands
One of the key tenets I talk about regarding understanding the engineering mindset is that software engineers think in terms of flow charts. This isn’t exactly correct – engineers think in code, but most of the planet does not, but, chances are, they understand the concept of a flowchart. You’re in a state. When…
Jane Dallaway · Jane Dallaway
What makes me unique from a data perspective? Southern Railways sent me an email the other day about their new key card service. This is a card that stores your tickets on it so you don't have to queue up at the machines to buy or collect on the station. This made me wonder about what they'll learn about be from me…
Sara · SaraRiggare
I share my birthday with someone very famous, I would say that almost everybody in the world know his name. At least we all know his work or rather, the result of his work. Nicolaus Copernicus was born 498 years ahead of me, to the day, and of course his work fundamentally changed the way […]