kottke.org · Jason Kottke
2015
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Buster Benson on Medium · Buster Benson
We Are Merely Tubes
Happy Monday. The fog is thicker than usual on the Berkeley side, but it feels nice. A gentle nudge to take it easy.Continue reading on Medium »
Bitsplitting.org · Daniel Jalkut
Apple News And The Open Web
People love to poke fun at Apple for its purported failure to achieve anything of lasting value in the realms of the cloud or social media. Essentially: anything that connects people to a centralized system for storing and sharing information with each other? Apple’s not good at that. Or at least that’s what people…
The Year of the Looking Glass — Medium · Julie Zhuo
Tending the Spark
Protect fragile ideas from an early deathContinue reading on Medium »
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
A new way to move forward
Transformation is possible. It’s possible to become a doctor, a skilled musician, a designer of beautiful objects. it’s possible to be transformed into the kind of person who leads, who connects, who sees the world as it is. And it’s...
The Ad Contrarian · noreply@blogger.com (BOB HOFFMAN)
We Have Fallen In Love With Ourselves
There are two reasons the advertising industry is besotted with the webThe corporate fat boys love it because it came along at exactly the right time to provide an exciting new thing to sell, just as the agency business was losing its mojo.The rank and file love it because it is quickly becoming the most advertising…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Chris Sacca: ‘What Twitter Can Be’
Dr. Jay Parkinson
“I now have a clear view of our assigned runway ahead. I...
“I now have a clear view of our assigned runway ahead. I disconnect the autopilot and silence the whoop-whoop of the siren that warns me I’ve done so. We lower the landing gear and complete the extension of the flaps that expand and alter the wing. We read the landing checklist. The air is bumpier now.”This is one of…
Buster Benson on Medium · Buster Benson
I generally agree that Medium’s not a publishing tool in the same way that Twitter isn’t a status…
What’s the difference between a network of ideas and a network of statements, or a network of opinions, and is that a distinction you’re…Continue reading on Medium »
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
Patch of honour.
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
The dairy paradox…
The observational evidence does not support the hypothesis that dairy fat or high-fat dairy foods contribute to obesity or cardiometabolic risk, and suggests that high-fat dairy consumption within typical dietary patterns is inversely associated with obesity risk. The case for drinking whole milk
davetrott · Dave Trott
ADVERTISING IS BOLLOCKS
� Potholes are a real drag for motorists, they ruin your tyres and your suspension. For pedestrians they fill up with rainwater, so you get splashed. But probably worst of all is for cyclists. Read more on ADVERTISING IS BOLLOCKS…
Aeon Magazine · Aeon Video
Shell swap
Rather than find new shells or bake to death in the sun, Caribbean hermit crabs do an incredible seaside housing swapThe post Shell swap appeared first on Aeon Magazine.
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Facebook launches Instant Articles
The Awl's John Herrman had the best thoughts on the implications I've seen
Aeon Magazine · Ed Lake
Aaron Swartz was on a crusade, that is clear, but for what?
Who was Aaron Swartz? I never met him, though I’ve had dealings with friends of his over the years. The outline of his biography is a matter of public record: teenaged computer whizz gets rich, becomes a political activist and ends up in his 20s facing decades in jail for murky charges related to the misappropriation…
The Message — Medium · Craig Mod
Upon This Wrist
A week with the new thingContinue reading on Medium »
Neven Mrgan's tumbl
I cannot lie to an app
I take meds three times a day. My dosing schedule is a bit annoying: take two of them at least an hour before and an hour after food, take one with food. It’s bad enough remembering to pop these at all, but doing so at specific times—forget about it, I’m way too dumb to stick with the program.Luckily, there’s an app…
Social · Kevan Lee
How Content Promotion Works for Blogs Big and Small: Our 11 Favorite Content Distribution Strategies
Did you know: Some bloggers recommend you spend as much time promoting your content as you do writing it. (Derek Halpern of Social Triggers has an 80/20 split: 80 percent promotion, 20 percent writing.) Wow, this is an area I fall well short on. I’m so impressed by those who hustle to get their content out there and…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Bryson Meunier
Mobilegeddon Is Beginning, Not Ending
Monday Note · Frédéric Filloux
Circa: What went wrong
Circa, the clever smartphone news app, failed to live up to its promises. The fiasco stems from the smartphone advertising market’s inherent weakness, from Circa’s inability to catch up with evolving reading habits, and from an insufficient editorial proposition. Related columns: The Circa App: News Exclusively for…
Kalzumeus Software · Patrick
Talking About Money
Twitter is presently abuzz with #talkpay folks sharing their salaries. The movement is rather Marxist in character, but this capitalist encourages you to look beyond that, as it is in the general interests of everyone who works for a salary or rate to understand what the market is like. Why Do I Support Talking About…
Aeon Magazine · D Watkins
How school grooms African Americans for the underclass
My 13-year-old nephew Butta was getting into trouble weekly. Arguing with teachers, ignoring administrators, and walking out of class. To the point where my sister had a time-block in her schedule every month dedicated to parent-teacher conferences – but they didn’t work. Butta is as harmless as he is plump – that…
Coach.me - Instant Coaching For Any Goal · Tony Stubblebine
Sign up now! ScopeCast #2: Lies the Self Improvement Industry Tells
Join me and Buster Benson for a live Q&A where we answer your questions about productivity and life. Nominally, this episode is going to cover lies and liars in the self-improvement industry. Do you think something is snake oil? Ask us about that! You can watch the next episode live on Wednesday, April 29,…
Yoast · Joost de Valk
Changing URLs in search results
Yesterday Google announced that they’ll change the way they represent URLs in mobile search results. This post explains what is changing, what this means for you and how our WordPress SEO plugin will help you with these changes. What is changing in the search results? In their blogpost Google say they’ll changing the…
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Rachael
How Laura Olin’s Emails Got Her Freelance Work and a Book Deal
Last September, when writer and digital strategist Laura Olin started a TinyLetter called Everything Changes, she had modest expectations. “I thought my friends would subscribe and it might top out at 100 readers,” she says. “I would have been happy with that.” But since then, the newsletter—the theme of which is…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Apple Watch and Durability: How Tough Are Apple’s Finishes?
Bothsides of the Table · Mark Suster
Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?
Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancell […] The post Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform? appeared first on Bothsides of the Table.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Robert Rietti, James Bond Voiceover Artist, Dies at 92
KK Lifestream · Kevin Kelly
Sourced Quotes, 21
Some people call VR “the last medium” because any subsequent medium can be invented inside of VR, using software alone. Looking back, the movie and TV screens we use today will be seen as an intermediate step between the invention … Continue reading →
Subtraction.com + Feed · Khoi
Camera Production in the Age of Smartphones
This post from last week at Petapixel shocked me and seemed worth repeating. Not long ago they shared this graphic of how camera sales have grown and shrunk over time, as measured by the Japanese-based Camera & Imaging Products Assocations (CIPA) and as charted by Mayflower Concepts. The story it tells is stark…
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Dashcam video of teen drivers crashing while distracted
"Self-driving cars can't arrive fast enough."
ParisLemon
"There’s the core of what we all do, the core of it is hardcore innovation that that takes a very..."
“There’s the core of what we all do, the core of it is hardcore innovation that that takes a very long time to play out. And a lot of the things that are working today are things that have been developed, literally over decades. The Apple Watch, right? One way to think about it is it’s a UNIX computer. UNIX was…
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Jesse England's Universal Record
a vinyl disc that vibrates to play any audio on a turntable
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Filtered for doorways
1. The term bardo refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. also translated as "transitional state" or "in-between state" or "liminal state". Liminality, from the Latin meaning "a threshold": the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when…
The Message — Medium · Paul Ford
My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure
I went back through 450,000 emails and here’s what I learned (WARNING I LEARNED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL)Continue reading on Medium »
we make money not art · Regine
Flash crashes. Glitches in the trading system
Members of RYBN were participating to refrag, a series of workshops, talks and performances that explored Glitch Art. Their presentation looked at what happens when HFT algorithms slip, glitch and disrupt the trading system. They analyzed four famous 'flash crashes.' Their study was based on a rigorous analysis of…
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Raw thoughts on Amazon Dash
Amazon Dash... yup, makes sense. Give away light-weight Internet of Things gadgets to encourage purchase of fast-moving consumer goods. Tiny plastic buttons that allow for instant product ordering: Your entire house is now a shopping cart. We worked on a bunch of similar stuff at Berg -- such as Cloudwash where…
Monday Note · Frédéric Filloux
Jumping In bed with Facebook: Smart or desperate?
by Frederic Filloux Update on May 13 : 9 publishers joining Facebook Instant Articles program. [Our April 6 article] Several major news organizations are said to be in negotiations with Facebook for a hosting deal. This throws the media sphere into an intense debate: Is this a path to prosperity or a dangerous…
Subtraction.com + Feed · Khoi
LayUp Is Now Adobe Comp CC and It Launches Today
Last October, on stage at the annual Adobe Max conference, I debuted a collaboration between Adobe and myself called Project LayUp, a new iPad app for designers. Today, that app officially launches in the App Store under a new name: Adobe Comp CC. Read the company’s official release for the app is here. Adobe…