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information aesthetics
Binning is a clever method to avoid overlapping data points by aggregating multiple points in a grid of polygons, and using color to denote the relative density (see some interesting explanations here and here). The map The Pleasant Places to Live [kellegous.com] by software engineer Kelly Norton exploits this…
CreativeApplications.Net · Filip Visnjic
Created as a collaboration between between Radiohead, Nigel Godrich, Stanley Donwood and Universal Everything, Polyfauna is a living, breathing, growing touchscreen environment, born from abstraction of the studio sessions from King of Limbs and the organic drawings of Stanley Donwood.
JFDI.Asia · jfdiasia
Since freelance brokering services like Odesk set up, the processes they use to ensure quality have got more and more rigorous. JFDI startup
feltron
I’m thrilled to launch my new app Reporter today. I’m indebted to the hard work of Drew Breunig and Friends of The Web for helping me finally bring this idea to life. In 2011 Drew built the first working version of the app for me, and named it “Reporter”. It didn’t look like much, but the original app worked…
timoni.org
“You believe in objective evidence, and I do. Of some things we feel that we are certain: we know, and we know that we do know. There is something that gives a click inside of us, a bell that strikes twelve, when the hands of our mental clock have swept the dial and meet over the meridian hour. The greatest…
timoni.org
“Skimming fluffy articles and social timelines all day is like eating junk food all day. Eventually, you feel horrible, burn out, and just want something real.” - Long-Form – Marco.org I see quotes like this a lot. They sound right, but aren’t based on data, just gut reaction, or perhaps personal experience. Only in…
timoni.org
“When we fetishize “long-form,” we are fetishizing the form and losing sight of its function. That’s how a story with a troubled woman who commits suicide at its center gets told as a writer’s quixotic quest to learn everything he can about the maker of a golf club that he stumbled across during a late-night Internet…
timoni.org
“You know we’re constantly taking. We don’t make most of the food we eat, we don’t grow it, anyway. We wear clothes other people make, we speak a language other people developed, we use a mathematics other people evolved and spent their lives building. I mean we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful ecstatic…
Bustr Bensn
feltron: I’m thrilled to launch my new app Reporter today. I’m indebted to the hard work of Drew Breunig and Friends of The Web for helping me finally bring this idea to life. In 2011 Drew built the first working version of the app for me, and named it “Reporter”. It didn’t look like much, but the original app worked…
stevenf.com
"NOTE: DO NOT try to build something from scratch. I say again - this is not about pride or being a revolutionary. This is not about your idea being great. This is about making money. (...) Get the champagne ready!"
Marco.org
I’ve always joked that this site is about headphones and coffee, with occasional posts about computer and tech stuff. But I’ve never found a way to write about headphones and coffee in the same article until now. Tube amps look badass. I enjoy them both every day, and both help me work. They’re both potentially great…
Chris Hates Writing
After reading Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comments about the company’s stance on identity, I am almost shaking with excitement. I feel like I’ve waited years for this day, and frankly thought it may never come. Two months ago I said a huge opportunity awaited those who dared to go where Facebook and Google wouldn’t.…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
Tom Perkins is one of the founding members of the vener […]
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
It’s good to see one of the more tiresome myths of the last couple of years – that everyone is trying to be like Apple, just look at Google buying Motorola! – get put to bed once and for all. Earlier today Google sold the remains of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion,1 closing […]The post Google’s Tasty…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Rands in Repose · rands
When I am in a foul mood, I have a surefire way to improve my outlook – I build something. A foul mood is a stubborn beast and it does not give ground easily. It is an effort to simply get past the foulness in order to start building, but once the building has begun, […]
pamela fox's blog · Pamela Fox
Waxy.org Links
ESPN's Christina Kahrl on the disastrous article that resulted in the suicide of a trans woman; Bill Simmons' apology
Schneier on Security · schneier
Nedroid Fun Times
Good advice: Make your comics and put them online, then make more then keep doing that without stopping for at least 2 or 3 years before you expect ANYTHING in terms of recognition or readership. This accomplishes several things. 1) It keeps you from viewing your work as precious. Don’t obsess over one piece, draw…
timoni.org
“Pure, flat design doesn’t just get rid of dead weight. It shifts a burden. What once was information in the world, information borne by the interface, is now information in users’ heads, information borne by them. That in-head information is faster to access, but it does require that our users become responsible for…
Tucker Medical · admin
For a long time now, I have wanted to provide an essay to prostate cancer patients on how I became a specialist in treating prostate cancer. At no time in my early medical career did I set out to become an ‘expert’ in the treatment of prostate cancer, but I could not be happier now… Continue reading →
JFDI.Asia · jfdiasia
Singapore, 23 January 2014 — Today we’re announcing that we plan to operate three runs of our accelerator program back to back through 2014. Commencing on 20 March, 26 June and 2 October, each batch will include 10-15 startup businesses. Ambitious early-stage digital startup businesses from anywhere in the world are…
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “Growth Hacking is Bull” written by Muhammad Saleem. I’d like to make the case that the article is wrong. I’d strongly encourage you to read it. I actually really enjoyed…Read more ›
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
A Computer Scientist in a Business School · Panos Ipeirotis
ParisLemon
If ever there was one imagine to encapsulate the entirety of the Windows 8 shitshow, this is that image. Windows 8 is being rejected at such a scale that one of Microsoft’s largest partners is being forced to advertise the “return” of an older OS. [via @rsobers]
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO · Matt Cutts
Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more spammy practice, and if you’re doing a lot of guest blogging then you’re hanging out with really bad company. Back in the day, guest […]
Neil Gaiman's Journal · [email protected] (Neil Gaiman)
Life is quiet. I'm jogging daily, enjoying juicing fruits and vegetables, playing with my new phone, writing, being proud that Amanda is getting all the five star reviews in Sydney but have got quite used to not being in Sydney myself. I'm shifting the weight I put on during the May to October signing &…
OPEN URBANISM · debbie ding
diabetes 24-7 · Elizabeth Snouffer
The news from Google about their investment for a smart contact lens that would measure glucose levels for people with diabetes is exciting and will be much anticipated if it works out. Their interest in diabetes is very unexpected. That it is diabetes is surprisingly wonderful for someone like me who has lived with…
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
A company is nothing more (and nothing less) than three things: people, processes and purposes. In the language of the software engineer these would be inputs, algorithms and specifications. In the language of classical business analysis they are assets (or resources), organization structures and business models. In…
Schneier on Security · schneier
ParisLemon
The numbers, as reported by JP Mangalindan for Fortune, are staggering: The San Francisco Cab Drivers Association (SFCDA), an association for registered taxi drivers that promotes fair working conditions and business practice, reports that one-third of the 8,500 or so taxi drivers in San Francisco – over 2,800 – have…
Inside Facebook · Alex Houg
6 cent cost per click. 1,476 fans for only $210. That’s only 14 cents a fan. But look at the targeting. They’re buying traffic from India, Pakistan, Mexico, Thailand, and all sorts of places. Traffic there is...
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
The answer to the question, "how are you going to pay for this project?" is turning out to be sponsorship more and more often. If you don't know why organizations want to sponsor things, though, it's likely a long, hard...
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Signal vs. Noise · David
Employee benefits for technology companies are often focused around making people stay at office longer: Foosball tables, game rooms, on-site training rooms, gourmet chefs, hell, some even offer laundry services. We don’t do any of that (although we do have a ping-pong table in a back room that gets wheeled out for…
Stephen Wolfram Blog · Stephen Wolfram
Connected devices are central to our long-term strategy of injecting sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. With the Wolfram Language we now have a way to describe and compute about things in the world. Connected devices are what we need to measure and interface with those things. In the end, we…
Little Green Dot · militza
I cycle my daughter to school. I always have. It’s much easier than dealing with the line-up of cars in the morning, plus it’s fun. Throughout kindergarden, she didn’t even think about it. But things are different now, she started big girl school… On the first day, I realised that I was the only parent […]
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
If I could suggest just one thing you could do that would transform how 2014 goes for you, it would be this: Select three colleagues, bosses, investors, employees, co-conspirators or family members that have an influence over how you do...