February 2012
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“Our two teachers, pain and fear”
– Magnificent Ruin
this sums up 2012 so far.
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January 2012
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“Often, we’re hesitant to identify a problem out of fear we can’t solve it....”
– Seth’s Blog: Solving problems (vs. identifying them)
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nevver:
Have you ever wondered which part of the other side of the earth is directly below you?
trying to legit zone out.
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“Your probability of dying during a given year doubles every 8 years. For me, a...”
– Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates (via deplorableword)
getting over a cold this week.
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“To explore the consequences of viewing one’s virtual doppelgänger, we ran a...”
– Advertising through avatar-manipulation « Mind Hacks (via slantback)
testing this…soon.
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“You get to make a choice. You can remake that choice every day, in fact. It’s...”
– Seth Godin (via azspot)
2012.
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A Decade into “Always-On” Internet →
from christian sandvig discussing the current state of bandwidth in america.
In other words, Comcast has monopoly power in cable television in many markets. It has set its 250 GB/month cap so that it is impossible to buy television over its Internet service (take that, Netflix!) or to use free Internet video services in lieu of cable TV (take that, YouTube!), thus maintaining its monopoly...
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“Frictionless sharing isn’t better sharing; it’s the absence of sharing.”
– The end of social - O’Reilly Radar (via deplorableword)
mike loukides goes on, quoting…wait for it…microsoft:
The other day, I read a perceptive article, “In Defense of Friction,” arguing that “automated trust systems undermine trust by incentivizing cooperation...
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Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us →
Consider a set of classic experiments designed by Belgian psychologist Albert Michotte, first conducted in the 1940s. The research featured a series of short films about a blue ball and a red ball. In the first film, the red ball races across the screen, touches the blue ball, and then stops. The blue ball, meanwhile, begins moving in the same basic direction as the red ball. When Michotte asked...
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December 2011
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“A new medium: neither rare nor well-done
Most commentary on social media...”
– Economist, found via Matthew. (via wearethedigitalkids)
sigh.
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an important $7.60, part two.
remember this? fast forward nine months.
today, commenting on khoi vinh’s post about a pricing hurdle, felix salmon points out,
The thing which confuses me the most is the pricing of the full digital bundle at $8.75/week. I suspect it’s a way of communicating to print subscribers that they’re getting $455/year of digital value free with their print subscription.
emphasis mine....
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"...all human interaction is exchange, and... →
theatlantic:
“Anyway it only makes sense if you assume those premises; that all human interaction is exchange, and therefore, all ongoing relations are debts. This flies in the face of everything we actually know or experience of human life. But once you start thinking that the market is the model for all human behavior, that’s where you end up with.”
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This interview with David Graeber on...
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“The great irony and tragedy of “intro econ” is that it is at its introductory...”
– The Trouble with Principles: Or, How to Not Lose Friends and Alienate People When Learning Economics (#OccupyWallStreet, #OWS)
Perhaps the most interesting bit,
To casually label economics a science is at best aspirational, at worst manipulative, at a minimum misleading. At the introductory...
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Christmas 2011 →
ratcliffe-lee:
tried using storify as a place to gather all the media our family created around the holiday.
also updated the fam. blog theme.
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“Voluntary poverty – the intention to earn and spend less money — has the...”
– The Justice and Joy of Earning Less Money (via azspot)
i think about this every single day.
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The View From Nowhere →
excellent modern media critique.
undoubtedly, in an effort to foster non-opinion, thought leaders move to voice leaders and we’re left with a majority that no longer is rooted in any form of critical thinking.
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“So you get tired of Christmas. You do not get tired of Christmas because of...”
– Henry Allen, in the Style section of Dec. 20, 1995. (via washingtonpoststyle)
guess who is starting his shopping right now. two-day shipping is my co-pilot.
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The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) →
The funny thing is, no one’s really hiding the secret of how to make awesome online communities. Give people something cool to do and a way to talk to each other, moderate a little bit, and your job is done. Games like Eve Online or WoW have developed entire economies on top of what’s basically a message board. MetaFilter, Reddit, LiveJournal and SA all started with a couple of...
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“Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want...”
– Paul Graham, in 2008 via Trolls.
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Admit when things don't make sense. →
attentionindustry:
The simplest rule I know of is to just admit when something doesn’t make sense.
And yet, this seems to be the hardest rule to get people to follow, because we’re trained from an early age, to give people what they want.
Humans are irrational creatures. We want things because we don’t have them,…
this is getting printed and subsequently handed out.
happy holidays...
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“We discovered that unlike children interacting with their mothers in person or...”
– Instant messages vs. speech: hormones and why we still need to hear each other (via slantback)
phones: not just for poking at them all day.
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Regarding TheNextWeb's Shit-Ass Website →
How long it takes to load the page is part of the reading experience. Bandwidth is not free, and not universally fast. People are using 3G for chrissakes. If every article on the web weighed 3 MB, you’d eat through a 2 GB data cap by reading only 20 articles a day. Not watching video — just reading.
it’s sort of like shooting yourself in the foot when your business model is...
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov (via)
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November 2011
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Watchthanksgiving 2011.
had fun making this. will try to do it every year from now on.
finally got my act together w/ columbus day wknd photos as well.
also, come at me movember.