Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka · Danny O'Brien
So I’m reading the latest missive from Chairman Bruce Sterling about Snowden and Assange, and even though I have some history with the guy, I’m clapping along, because he always writes a fine barnstormer. Then, like Cory, I get pulled up by this bit. He’s reeling off a list of names, from 7iber to Bytes [...]
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
bunnie's blog · bunnie
Consumers tend to throw away old gadgets with little fanfare or thought. I think that’s a shame; all the knowledge and experience gained navigating the quirks of the old gadget are tossed as well. Thus, instead of raving about the latest greatest gadget, I like to jot down a few notes about my old gadgets [...]
ParisLemon
I Am TOM. I Like to TYPE. Hear That?: Tom Hanks (yes, that Tom Hanks) writing for The New York Times about his love of typewriters: Remingtons from the 1930s go THICK THICK. Midcentury Royals sound like a voice repeating the word CHALK. CHALK. CHALK CHALK. Even the typewriters made for the dawning jet age (small…
OPEN URBANISM · debbie ding
Robin Sloan · Robin
Here are the results from my little RSS reader survey, as promised, belatedly: About 100 respondents. 60% using Feedly. 15% Digg Reader. 5% The Old Reader. 20% something else. For the record, I myself am using Digg Reader and, so far, enjoying it. Man, I got some great feed recommendations from that survey, too! Some…
Schneier on Security · schneier
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Kathy Sierra:1 If our work drains a user’s cognitive resources, what does he lose? What else could he have done with those scarce, precious, easily-depleted resources? Maybe he’s trying to stick with that diet. Or practice guitar. Or play with his kids. That one new feature you added? That sparkly, Techcrunchable,…
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
You've met people who are an accident just waiting to happen. What's the opposite of that? What we're looking for in a boss, in a CEO to invest in, in a business partner, in a candidate, is formidability. Someone to...
Uncrunched · Michael Arrington
Cloud hosting startup Digital Ocean announced its first round of funding today – $3.2 million from IA Ventures, CrunchFund and TechStars. See TechCrunch, GigaOM and Pando Daily for coverage of the news (and see the comments on Hacker News). The company is growing revenue and customers by 30% a month, and had 50x…
Belmont Club · Richard Fernandez
One of the most awesome phrases in today’s news is Chris Brown’s invocation of “nonstop negativity” as the reason for his recent collapse at work. For minutes I was literally thunderstruck by the audacity of it and felt not a little envy. Maybe one reason why so many lie trapped in the shallows of life [...]
jordanmechner.com · jordan
(Originally published as a guest article for The Huffington Post.) As a writer and game designer, I’ve spent a good chunk of the past 30 years trying to do various types of creative work while sitting, standing, or slouching at a computer keyboard (and, more recently, a touchscreen). The power of those devices has…
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
I would like to suggest a new strategy for your agency: Do a few things well. You are trying to do too much. As a result, you are mediocre at a lot of things and excellent at nothing. You are becoming like government. People used to have confidence that government was competent and effective. Now 10% of the…
Marco.org
Glenn Fleishman responded very well to my semi-controversial tweet about Medium from the other day: I’ve written a few things on Medium (not paid) because I liked the experience of their writing tools, their statistics, and their reach. I think two of the three items I wrote became featured and had several thousand…
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
The Washington Post was headed for bankruptcy, and was finally sold for a pittance. Its buyer began his career on Wall Street, only to move into a burgeoning new industry, where he truly made his wealth. The newspaper he bought has a noble history, but will certainly earn losses for years to come. I’m talking […]The…
Dr. Jay Parkinson
Ahhh…the coveted new Apple iWatch people are claiming is just on the horizon. Sounds fascinating doesn’t it? It’s sort of like when, in a sea of competition, they launched the iPod and iPhone and just cleaned up because they leapfrogged all the crappy devices. True isn’t it? They took the flip phone and turned that…
jane.dallaway.com · Jane Dallaway
The other day I posted about my fitbit and my stats for the past year. One of those was: over the past year I've walked 2,119 miles, taking 4,827,668 steps to do so, and climbed 17,311 floors. A few months ago, xkcd mentioned a chrome extension designed to give some context to large numbers - Dictionary of Numbers…
jane.dallaway.com · Jane Dallaway
After my flurry of posts about error messaging from my perspective (here and here), I did some reading and researching on other peoples perspectives. What follows are links to some of the most interesting/relevant. From Non-Fatal Errors: Creating Usable, Effective Error Messages a set of guidelines that I've…
Memoto Blog · Priscilla Choo
Capturing life’s precious moments “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” ― Karl Lagerfeld It’s difficult to disagree with the quote above, isn’t it? This week, Sports Illustrated writer Richard Deitsch sent out a tweet that read, “How many of you…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Barry Schwartz
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
You probably have better things to do than to analyze the basic trait of the Three Stooges, so I will do it for you. They have impulse control problems. It's not that they are evil or even particularly selfish. No,...
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Approximately a million web years ago, I wrote a book about web design. The Big Red Fez was an exercise in shooting fish in a barrel. There was a vast and deep inventory of bad websites, sites that were not...
Assembla Blog · adam feber
Luxurious Animals is a creative agency based in New York City that inspires and engages audiences through interactive digital media such as websites, applications, games and video. Their impressive portfolio boasts well-known brands such as Adobe, Porsche, Bombardier and Morgan Stanley. Dan Federman, Technical…
90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull · Harry Brignull
A paraphrased transcript of my talk at SMX Munich 2013 Let’s start with a little game. In iOS, there’s an ad tracking feature that allows advertisers to identify you (albeit anonymously). It’s turned on by default. Let’s see if we … Continue reading
White African · HASH
Open Data for Africa The African Development Bank has put together a great new resource for open data on Africa (200 data sets) at Open Data for Africa. Should be a good resource. The Birth of Kenya’s Gaming Industry A great long-read article on the beginnings of the gaming industry in Kenya. Ventureburn has also […]
Blog - ion interactive - Software & Services Beyond Landing Pages · Anna Talerico
If you are conducting landing page tests, do you create test plans? If so, you probably already know that creating, maintaining & updating test plans isn't always as simple as it sounds—it can be a lot of work when you are using the wrong format. If not...oh no! Testing is great, in the moment, to get a lift. But…
electricfoxy · jennifer
From my friends at Ziba… Ziba hosted a wearable technology panel back in April including Sean Madden Executive Managing Director at Ziba, Roberto Tagliabue Executive Director of Software Design at [...]
Dr. Jay Parkinson
Does viewing data about your life increase healthy behavior? We’re already successfully measuring our lives today with our money (Mint), with our social relationships (Facebook), and our physical locations (Foursquare). I recently posed a question on Twitter: Is anyone aware of high quality research that suggests…
ParisLemon
Prototyping the Future : Kwin Kramer: Think back just a few years ago to the Time Before The iPhone. We’d seen a number of touch-screen cell phones and PDAs. (Remember that acronym?) But the conventional wisdom among tech pundits was that touchscreens weren’t really workable for mobile devices. Certainly, it was…
timoni.org
“If I were given carte blanche to write about any topic I could, it would be about how much our ignorance, in general, shapes our lives in ways we do not know about. Put simply, people tend to do what they know and fail to do that which they have no conception of. In that way, ignorance profoundly channels the course…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Jenny Halasz
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Joel Spolsky: Boom. Prior art found, and deployed. Total time elapsed, maybe 10 minutes. Ask Patents has always been a noble idea in the battle between patents and actual innovation. Now we know that it actually works. This is awesome. ∞ Permalink
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Nate
Regardless of whether or not you own a business that sends receipts or invoices, you’re a purveyor of transactional emails by default with MailChimp. When a new subscriber signs up to receive your email, after confirming their subscription, they typically get a welcome email. Since that email is sent on a one-to-one…
White African · HASH
(This is my daughter at Lake Naivasha at sunrise) Enough people have asked me about how I Instagram that I thought it might be worth creating a post on it. I take a lot of pictures as I travel as it gives me something to do along the way, so there are a lot of [...]
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
This is final part of a series that describes a sales methodology for technology companies or frankly many other types of companies, too. We developed this at our first company and called it PUCCKA – the overall methodology is described here. Pain. Unique Selling…Read more ›
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Signal vs. Noise · Travis Jeffery
Hey iOS developers, App Store “screenshots” don’t actually have to be screenshots and they can communicate more than just how your apps looks. They can communicate: Who you are, how hard you worked, and prerequisites to using your app… Your app’s job… How to use your app… As an aside: keep in mind that these images…
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in honor of episode #500; Ira Glass's favorites and other staff picks
Wondermark · David Malki !
Today’s the day! Our book This Is How You Die is officially released. Some people on Twitter are reporting having received their pre-ordered copies already! Halfway through the latest episode of #jjgo and look what shows up at my door. cc/ @malki @JesseThorn @Jordan_Morris pic.twitter.com/kbkldfuUwI — Ernesto Ramirez…