2014
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Neil Gaiman's Journal · noreply@blogger.com (Neil Gaiman)
Secrets, a quiet life, and several random books by other people
Life is quiet. I'm jogging daily, enjoying juicing fruits and vegetables, playing with my new phone, writing, being proud that Amanda is getting all the five star reviews in Sydney but have got quite used to not being in Sydney myself. I'm shifting the weight I put on during the May to October signing &…
OPEN URBANISM · debbie ding
Tasty Mould: Quorn, Tempeh, and Huitlacoche
diabetes 24-7 · Elizabeth Snouffer
Changing the world of diabetes
The news from Google about their investment for a smart contact lens that would measure glucose levels for people with diabetes is exciting and will be much anticipated if it works out. Their interest in diabetes is very unexpected. That it is diabetes is surprisingly wonderful for someone like me who has lived with…
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
Google’s three Ps
A company is nothing more (and nothing less) than three things: people, processes and purposes. In the language of the software engineer these would be inputs, algorithms and specifications. In the language of classical business analysis they are assets (or resources), organization structures and business models. In…
Schneier on Security · schneier
FEEDTROUGH: NSA Exploit of the Day
ParisLemon
Incumbents Asleep At The Wheel
The numbers, as reported by JP Mangalindan for Fortune, are staggering: The San Francisco Cab Drivers Association (SFCDA), an association for registered taxi drivers that promotes fair working conditions and business practice, reports that one-third of the 8,500 or so taxi drivers in San Francisco – over 2,800 – have…
Inside Facebook · Alex Houg
Want a bunch of cheap Facebook fans? Don’t make this mistake
6 cent cost per click. 1,476 fans for only $210. That’s only 14 cents a fan. But look at the targeting. They’re buying traffic from India, Pakistan, Mexico, Thailand, and all sorts of places. Traffic there is...
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Understanding sponsorship
The answer to the question, "how are you going to pay for this project?" is turning out to be sponsorship more and more often. If you don't know why organizations want to sponsor things, though, it's likely a long, hard...
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Florida Man Is Shot to Death for Texting During Movie Previews
Signal vs. Noise · David
Healthy benefits for the long run
Employee benefits for technology companies are often focused around making people stay at office longer: Foosball tables, game rooms, on-site training rooms, gourmet chefs, hell, some even offer laundry services. We don’t do any of that (although we do have a ping-pong table in a back room that gets wheeled out for…
Stephen Wolfram Blog · Stephen Wolfram
Launching the Wolfram Connected Devices Project
Connected devices are central to our long-term strategy of injecting sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. With the Wolfram Language we now have a way to describe and compute about things in the world. Connected devices are what we need to measure and interface with those things. In the end, we…
Little Green Dot · militza
ourlittlegreendot.com
I cycle my daughter to school. I always have. It’s much easier than dealing with the line-up of cars in the morning, plus it’s fun. Throughout kindergarden, she didn’t even think about it. But things are different now, she started big girl school… On the first day, I realised that I was the only parent […]
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Netflix’s Dumbed-Down Algorithms
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Pick three
If I could suggest just one thing you could do that would transform how 2014 goes for you, it would be this: Select three colleagues, bosses, investors, employees, co-conspirators or family members that have an influence over how you do...
MakeweekendMakeweekend · kal
A great year for Malaysian Makers
By Kal Joffres When we look back on 2014, I think we’ll see it as a turning point for the maker community in Malaysia. The idea of a community of innovators who tinker and prototype is going mainstream. Over 2,300 people took part in 34 Makeweekends across the country this year. Another 1,000 youth took [...]The post…
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
On the future of the Internet and everything
According to ITU data, Internet usage reached about 2.2% penetration in the US (2.2 users per 100 residents) in 1993. The figure in 2012 was 81%. The history of penetration is shown in the following graphs. Similar graphs can be drawn for other countries (data is available for 193 countries/territories.) I chose the…
Becoming Databetic · Doug
A Year in Diabetes Data
As we close out 2013, I’ve taken one final look back at 2012. We’ve visualized my yearlong quantified self project as a poster (pdf here). With so much data to make sense of, we printed it big. Never before in my … Continue reading →
BBH Labs · Mel Exon
Under My Skin: The 2013 Edition
“We are sensation junkies, predisposed to excitement, and if that means danger and death, we are ready for it.” ~ Doris Lessing, ‘Under My Skin’ (part 1 of her autobiography) Since Labs was founded in 2008, at the end of every year we’ve written a round-up of our favourite memories of the previous 12 months: [...]
Subtraction.com
Sonos vs. AirPlay vs. Our House
At Christmas, we flirted with a Sonos sound system in my household, but ultimately decided to return it. I know smart people who adore their Sonos systems, but when I’ve played with the hardware and software in the past I’ve never been more than mildly impressed. So when it came time to commit to installing another…