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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