April 2010
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“We’re all lost and making things up as we go. We are making things before we...”
– Everything is Something or Other This, from Frank Chimero’s Ideas on his, very recently redesigned (and stunning), website. Where there’s ambiguity, Frank is there figuring things out, out loud. Take some time to sit with the site, in particular, the FAQs. (via bobulate)
it’s extremely...
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open letter about attitude & hard work.
todd defren, jason calacanis and jason falls -
are you done yet? are you done crying over spilt milk? are you done making sweeping generalizations about “millennials” and “loyalty?” you dudes are older than i am - i get it. everyone who’s younger than someone else gets it. we’re here making the same mistakes you probably did and we’re also here...
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ShortFormBlog: Read a little. Learn a lot. →
“tightly-written news, views and stuff.” a new favorite.
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Take Down →
mikehudack:
heyitsnoah:
I do like it when people intelligently pick apart an argument that gets passed around the echo chamber. Over at his blog Whimsley, Tom Slee was kind enough to do just that to Clay Shirkey’s “Collapse of Complex Business Models” essay. The money quote comes towards the end, “Complexity is not going away. It’s just moving to a different spot in the production chain, and...
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“There’s life in commerce for those more dedicated to the Golden Rule than...”
– Management, Plain and Simple
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What if I had bought Apple stock instead? →
jstn:
AAPL is worth twice what was just one year ago today, and 40x seven years ago. I became a shareholder recently, wish I’d done it long ago.
this is a powerful example of make prudent decisions. i want to update my laptop but i think i know what i’m going to be doing with that money instead.
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Allan Grinshtein: Hey Blippy, law requires that... →
mikehudack:
There is no reason why blippy should have been able to expose credit card numbers to Google’s crawler. Any person who’s handled credit card numbers knows that this type of security problem is impossible to have if you’re PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant.
Basically, it’s illegal to store…
i didn’t like blippy from the moment i heard about them and this is exactly why.
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TOO MUCH MEDIA, LLC v. HALE →
On leave granted, defendant appeals, arguing that both the statutory newsperson’s privilege and First Amendment of the United States Constitution protect the anonymity of her sources, and that the motion judge erred in finding she was not a member of the news media and her information was not “newsworthy.”
live in jersey and blog? as of yesterday, legally, you are not a...
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“This thing. If numbers are your strategy to win at this thing, you’ve already...”
– Stop chasing followers – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
my favorite part about jeff’s site is that when i highlighted this quote in my browser, the highlight is the same color as his background - not the browser default. absolutely love the attention to detail there. thanks,...
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you're not the first thing i reach for.
now that i have a new commute in the morning, i have some time on a train to do as i please.
most of it is spent in the new york times iphone app.
what i’m not doing? twitter, facebook et al. even if i do, for a second, i’ll close it out shortly. not that i don’t love my friends, digital and non, but i’ve decided i don’t need you being some of the first items...
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“E-books are “broken” in several ways that are important to kids, not...”
– On the extinction of paper children’s books
if the story is being told to you so much that it leaves no room for you to interpret, for you to understand and for you to imagine - where are you going? you always need to leave room in our mind to process, juxtapose and grow. maybe that’s...
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Will the Future Contain Information Black Holes? →
So, why we are all thinking of a ubiquitous information future, there are likely to be (many?) situations in which there is no economic or social reason for the presence of that information.
who’s going to get there first and what will be your intention? equal parts opportunity for control and advancement. who would’ve thought that “information management” requires...
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Cabin Porn →
zachklein:
I use this Tumblr to keep track of architecture and furniture that keeps me daydreaming about the farm I will build someday. We all need a carrot.
so, yeah, i’m on board with this (and this).
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“The truth is, all over the world, across every culture, there exists a sense of...”
– Fake Steve (via jhnbrssndn)
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Cory Doctorow, You Are a Consumer, Too →
It all just kills me. It literally makes me sick to my stomach. I am sitting here looking at my computer screen and looking over at your post and just wanting to take it apart line by line but what’s the point? I agree with so much of what we all seem to think about culture, about copyright, and freedoms to tinker. But I don’t want to use shitty computers with shitty operating systems,...
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You are being lied to: Crocs are disgusting →
When I spot someone wearing crocs, I know immediately that we have nothing in common and that we could never be friends or have nay meaningful kind of relationship. They come in every conceivable color imaginable but look bad with every other article of clothign ever created. Come to think of it,…
nick is my boy.