May 2008
40 posts
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April 2008
101 posts
“Nobody is passionate about things they suck at.”
– Kathy Sierra, on The Web 2.0 Show (via jnunemaker)
“[Television] essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink,...”
– Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody (via agsystems)
“Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick...”
– John Cheever (via rach)
Getting Real: Ignore Details Early On (by... →
“In the face of infinity, many of us are panicking and searching less, going...”
– Seth on infinite (via tomwillerer)
“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”
– Alan Saporta (via affremblequotes)
Random thought...
Wikipedia, such as it is, represents its topics accurately to the degree that its editors agree on what’s ‘right’ or ‘true’ — that is, the explicit content of Wikipedia doesn’t express dissent; rather, it is the ‘consensus’ of truth across cultures. Good. But what would the inverse look like — what if we only saw the boundaries along...
constraints and innovation →
tomwillerer: Often great innovations come from (seemingly) tough constraints. In the web world, twitter and tumblr come to mind as two examples. Twitter strips down the blogging experience and constrains…
constraints and innovation →
tomwillerer: Often great innovations come from (seemingly) tough constraints. In the web world, twitter and tumblr come to mind as two examples. Twitter strips down the blogging experience and constrains…
Watchtomwillerer: My concern is that although Yahoo is talking about connecting all their properties to harness the latent social network that exists within their properties, the reason they are doing this isn’t because it will create the best user experience. It’s because it’s what advertisers want. That’s a problem. They are, and always have been, too focused on making advertisers happy rather...
Lunch: Lasagna and a Mountain Dew
cameronr:
It may be wrong for me to think/write this considering my job is advocating sustainable transportation options, but I am fucking tired of hearing about “green” solutions/products/living/design/etc. It hit me last week when I was running a kiosk and bike valet service at a Sustainable Consumer Expo. I know that real change will only occur when it makes economic sense for businesses...
The Pirate Bay trial →
cameronr: They could make this whole thing into a movie. And then upload it for us all to illegally download.
There are some things worth getting woken up...
hell yes. that’s awesome. dugg.
sponge-ing: …like having the little online magazine you helped start get on the front page of digg. Nice article, James. Keep up the good work boys.
“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to...”
– Jeff Bezos in Business Week (via tomwillerer)
After using Tumblr semi-regularly now for awhile,...
jakoblodwick:
catbird: How could I not love this?
“It comes down to a saying I’ve heard a lot lately, which I’ll bend to fit here....”
– The Anti-Social Graph : Matt’s Homepage
“The flush availability of other people’s money is simply too tempting. When...”
– Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco? - (37signals)
“The bottom line is that this industry is certifiably dysfunctional and that we...”
– Gerd Leonhard, CEO of Sonific, a web-music service that is going offline on May 1st (via jakoblodwick)
Some things don't live together for a reason
Increasingly, there’s been a sweeping move by which countless companies attempt to shove any/all social media into one place. Simplify. Aggregate. Combine.
We have distinct web entities for a reason — if these things were meant to live together, our notion of the web would have evolved very differently in the first place. Our abstract notions of space and (even more importantly)...
BBC NEWS | Technology | Learning what makes... →
“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much,...”
– Theodore Rubin via scout (via nikography)
“In an age when Web sites increasingly rely on complicated algorithms to rank...”
– Confessions of a CollegeHumor.com Editor - New York Times
“Everyone talks about “monetizing eyeballs.” We all know that if you can amass a...”
– Amplifier This is such a good point. (via jakoblodwick)
Help us win a Webby
joshuakaufman:
Radar is up for a Webby Award in the Mobile - Social Networking category. Please vote for Radar now to help us win. Many thanks!
“Do whatever’s best for your users. You can hold onto this like a rope in a...”
– Be Good
“You can see how there would be. When you’re small, you can’t bully...”
– Be Good
Six Apart Launches Ad Network, Moves Into Services →
Why to Not Not Not Start a Startup: The Hedge...
very nice. well put.
sponge-ing:
this is a long post but worth the read. james really hits the nail on the head with this observation. it reminds me of the quote i posted a few days ago. part of me can’t help but wonder if all this entrepreneurial diversification is just a result of our internet-fueled-ADD lifestyles…either way, this sort of project-multitasking is a great thing to...
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in...”
– William Shakespeare (via affremblequotes)
“We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no...”
– Alex DeLarge (via simko)
“I said, “Give us the black sheep. I want artists who are frustrated. I want the...”
– Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation « FoundRead (via 8secondsofawesome)
Passionless Pre-Professionals — RobGoodlatte.com →
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life”
– Steve Jobs
“Too many of my peers are discarding, or never discover, their passion in life....”
– Rob Goodlatte, in his article/blog post called “Passionless Pre-professionals”, this post really makes me feel better because this is what I am trying to fight (via stephaniemcdonald)
DVICE: SHIFT: Why the U.S. cellphone system is... →