timoni.org
5 Ways to Be Persuasive in Your UX Work
5 Ways to Be Persuasive in Your UX Work: The best, most practical rundown of ways to get your point across in a work environment. Especially number one.
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Raz's Blog · Roland Turner
The world’s most expensive airline ticket?
The Morning News - Headlines
December 2, 2011: Afternoon
Anders Breivik was cold and calculating, but calling him insane lets him off easy. #opinions Western governments should open up to trade rather than just dish out aid. On Africa’s real chance to follow in Asia’s footsteps. Change in Libyan leadership doesn’t mean 200-year-old remains of American sailors closer to…
Instagram Engineering
What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, “what’s your stack?” We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in the future. This is…
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report · Jeffrey Zeldman
Getting Started with Sass – A List Apart
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
Golden rules to live by while travelling the world
Bjango Articles · Marc Edwards
Photoshop Actions & Workflows
Over the last few years I’ve built a small set of Actions that I use daily. While they don’t save much time individually, they do seem to reduce the cognitive load a little by removing the need to remember best practice for each step.
ParisLemon
A "Holy Shit" Website
A "Holy Shit" Website: Speaking of Path, hopefully you’ve visited their new website by now. If not, click the link above. It’s amazing. It’s the kind of thing you used to need Flash for. And it was one of the few decent arguments for why it perhaps should stick around. With it, you could make a website that felt…
Neil Gaiman's Journal · [email protected] (Neil)
The Simpsons and the Other Mother
Here's the SIMPSONS episode that I'm in. It's called THE BOOK JOB. I'm not sure how long it'll be up for.If you're not in the US and you want to watch it, I recommend Tunnelbear (downloadable from http://www.tunnelbear.com/). It's what I use to tell the internet I'm either in the US or the UK, depending on where it…
A List Apart: The Full Feed · David Demaree
Getting Started with Sass
CSS’ simplicity has always been one of its most welcome features. But as our sites and apps get bigger and become more complex, and target a wider range of devices and screen sizes, this simplicity—so welcome as we first started to move away from font tags and table-based layouts—has become a liability. Fortunately,…
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
Little Printer publishes tiny personal newspapers
timoni.org
Handy list of empathy blockers, or, never say this to a sad person
This morning I heard a hilarious story about Friend A trying to cheer up Friend B by calculating the number of hours Friend B could rightfully claim to be upset. It reminded me that not everybody knows about empathy blockers, the emotional equivalent of logical fallacies. Here’s a handy list from Robin Grille’s Heart…
The KISSmetrics Marketing Blog · Kristi Hines
Stop Bothering Me! The Cure to Common Social Media Distractions
The KISSmetrics Marketing Blog · Leo Widrich
10 Great Twitter Tools To Transform Your Tweeting Experience
Blog - ion interactive - Optimizing Marketing Performance Beyond Landing Pages · Anna Talerico
Get R.E.A.D.Y for great landing pages
Blog - ion interactive - Optimizing Marketing Performance Beyond Landing Pages · Anna Talerico
An Eisenberg roundup: Great articles on converting web traffic
Quantified Self · Chia Hwu
Trust Your Results: Afternoon Sessions on Food and Health
ParisLemon
Seven
When I read Om’s post today celebrating 10 years blogging, it made me think back to when I began. Oddly enough, in three days, it will be exactly 7 years since I started blogging as well. I actually remember the timing and the thought process. I had recently graduated from college and had just left everything and…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Carrie Hill
A Beginner’s Guide To Setting Goals In Google Analytics
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing
Assembla Blog · Andy Singleton
Tech Leads will Rule the World
At a Google office the other day, I heard someone say “Tech Leads make all the decisions at Google.” They also make the decisions here at Assembla. If you do distributed software development, they should be making the decisions at your company A Technical Lead or Tech Lead is a software engineer who also leads a…
The KISSmetrics Marketing Blog · Neil Patel
6 Mistakes That Will Kill Your Product Launch
Fresh & New(er) · Seb Chan
Early MoveMe wi-fi heat maps from Love Lace exhibition
Inside Search · Jake Hubert
Some thoughts on personalization
Juice Analytics · lisawaller
Dashboard Designs People Love – A Refresher
Waxy.org
Viewing the UC Davis Pepper Spraying from Multiple Angles
I was stunned and appalled by the UC Davis Police spraying protestors, but struck by how many brave, curious people recorded the events. I took the four clearest videos and synchronized them. Citizen journalism FTW. Sources below. Best viewed in HD fullscreen. Top briocloud, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Uj1cV97XQ…
Habit Labs · ameliagreenhall
"Help" from Radiolab
"Help" from Radiolab: Completely excellent, especially the first two acts. The last is just ridiculous. From Radiolab’s website: What do you do when your own worst enemy is…you? This hour, Radiolab looks for ways to gain the upper hand over those forces inside us—from unhealthy urges, to creative insights—that seem…
The JamiQ Blog · Benjamin Koe
Social Media Measurement Framework
Cognition by Happy Cog · Ryan Irelan
Writing to Remember
For the last 5 ½ years, I’ve worked from home. So except for the occasional on-site meeting, almost all of my meetings have been done on the phone. If you were a fly on the wall in my office during a phone meeting, you’d see me with my head down scribbling notes while listening, scribbling notes while talking, and…
The Morning News - Headlines
November 17, 2011: Afternoon
EPA goes after Arizona copper smelter after state neglects to do anything about pollution. Johnson & Johnson to remove toxic chemicals from baby shampoo and other products. Interactive Grimm tales from National Geographic. Excerpt: Krzyzewski’s drive to win includes spending hours on Angry Birds. How and why…
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report · Jeffrey Zeldman
Survey for people who make websites
ParisLemon
Flipboard Adds Tumblr Support
Flipboard Adds Tumblr Support: Tumblr on Flipboard. This pleases me greatly. Though I’d still love to see support for reading only certain tags. Also worth noting is the addition of “Flipboard Accounts” which means one thing: Flipboard for iPhone coming soon.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber