Links
Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
Schneier on Security · schneier
Eben Moglen on Snowden and Surveillance
Kitbashed · Michael Heilemann
Kitbashed: The Film
Presented in its entirety is here my 'workprint' of Star Wars with a wide variety of its inspirational ancestry intercut and annotated.
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
The World Cup in Brazil.
The Official Google Blog · Emily Wood
Google+ Stories and Movies: memories made easier
Dr. Jay Parkinson
Sherpaa raises a $4M Series A round led by Softbank
I’m obviously quite excited about this. Sherpaa started in February of 2012 with one client, tumblr. A little over two years later: We take care of more than 100 companies We’re 18 employees and hiring Our monthly revenue covers our monthly burn We’re now in California and in the process of expanding to 10 other…
Dr. Jay Parkinson
Apple is supposedly working on this thing called Healthbook and...
Apple is supposedly working on this thing called Healthbook and it appears it will be a bundled app in iOS8. I actually put the majority of the bundled apps in a folder on my iPhone called “iCrap.” As you can see, Healthbook is supposed to track the metrics you see in the photo. But let’s analyze this from a…
Rands in Repose · rands
Very Important Strangers
A few weeks ago I spoke at the excellent re:build conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. While it was my first time in Indiana, the setup was familiar. 200+ attendees, great venue, single track, and conference coordinators who know how to put on a great conference. (And one surprisingly gotham-y gorgeous building.) I…
danah boyd | apophenia · zephoria
New White House Report on Big Data
I’m delighted to see that the White House has just released its report on “big data” — “Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values” along with an amazing collection of supporting documents. This report is the culmination of a 90-day review by the Administration, spearheaded by Counselor John Podesta. I’ve had…
Subtraction.com · Khoi
The New York Times Innovation Report
Buzzfeed got a hold of a 96-page report on the state of innovation at The New York Times, prepared by a select group of the company’s staffers and intended for internal distribution only. It’s a refreshingly frank analysis of the organization’s increasingly difficult challenges, which, for my money, are best…
Quantified Self · Ernesto Ramirez
What We Are Reading
Enjoy these links, posts, and articles from around the web. Health Care Apps Offer Patients an Active Role by Ann Carrns. A nice overview of different DIY health apps and connected home medical devices. Getting the most out of RescueTime … Continue reading → The post What We Are Reading appeared first on Quantified…
Signal vs. Noise · Jason Fried
PHOTO: I really like Jeep’s text-based 7-bars…
I really like Jeep’s text-based 7-bars + headlights subject lines in their marketing emails. Fun touch.
Waxy.org Links
Nieman Lab on the NYT's leaked innovation report
essential reading for every news organization
Dinosaur Comics!
resistance is futile
archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about← previousMay 15th, 2014nextMay 15th, 2014: The other night I sung "Torn" at the drop-in choir I'm a member of and ran into a woman I used to take ballroom dancing lessons with a decade ago! I would rate this a SATISFACTORY NIGHT. (Also notice how classy I…
timoni.org
"In one meeting, [Jill] Abramson was upset with a photograph that was on the homepage. Rather than..."
“In one meeting, [Jill] Abramson was upset with a photograph that was on the homepage. Rather than asking for a change to be made after the meeting, she turned to the relevant editor and, according to sources with knowledge of the meeting, said bluntly, “I don’t know why you’re still here. If I were you, I would…
Dinosaur Comics!
how to be a pick up artist! and yes, i DID just save you $50 on some sketchy ebook
archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about← previousApril 28th, 2014nextApril 28th, 2014: Guys, The Midas Flesh #5 is out now! AHHH. It's the comic I'm writing about oh I don't know KING MIDAS IN SPACE WITH DINOSAURS and this issue is a big one. You can read a preview here! And you can pick the…
Candy Chang · admin
Magical Realism
New Orleans “What was most important was the expression she had on her face. She did not change her expression at all when telling her stories, and everyone was surprised. In previous attempts to write One Hundred Years of Solitude, I tried to tell the story without believing in it. I discovered that what I […]
Bernard Leong · Bernard Leong
The Trouble with Two Sided Marketplaces (and how to deal with them)
Recently, I spent some time with the 2014A batch of startup companies in JFDI.Asia. Although their value propositions are different due to the nature of the problem, I can basically break their questions into the following: (a) I am running a two-sided marketplace with demand and supply (or some may call it a chicken…
Observations on film art · bordwellblog
Unveiling Ebertfest 2014
Kristin here: In the early days of Ebertfest, Roger personally introduced every film at this five-day event, which took place this year from April 23 to 27. He would be onstage for the discussions and question sessions after each screening, often joined by directors, actors, or friends in the industry. In the summer…
Inside Facebook · Guest Post
Facebook’s Audience Network: it’s all about the targeting
Facebook finally made the big announcement that marketers and app developers have been anxiously awaiting: it’s launching its own mobile ad network, called Audience Network. Why is this a big deal? It’s simple: Facebook’s mobile ad...
White African · HASH
Managing with Trust and Expectation
For the past 6 years I’ve been part of a rather unique organization in Ushahidi, where we decided early on that how we’d run the organization was that we would trust each other and expect that everyone would act like responsible adults. It’s worked brilliantly, even as we’ve grown and spun up new enterprises and […]
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Great Smartphone War: Apple vs. Samsung
stevenf.com · stevenf
The Personal Computer Is Dead
“At the height of Windows’s market dominance, Microsoft had no role in determining what software would and wouldn’t run on its machines, much less whether the content inside that software was to be allowed to see the light of screen. [...] This is especially troubling as governments have come to realize that this…
OkDork.com · Noah Kagan
Double Your Social Shares: The Visual Guide To Web Scraping and Data Analysis
A few months ago I saw this goofy looking kid getting his articles ranked high on two of my favorite marketing sites Inbound.org and Growthhackers. His name was Nate Desmond and what he was writing about was extremely impressive. Funny enough on his site was a link to hire him, I did part-time. Since then he’s been…
Subtraction.com · Khoi
iBeacon Is the New Frontier
A very smart post about how Apple’s indoor positioning system represents a huge advance in how “smart” our smartphones really are — and, consequently, how iBeacon represents a huge opportunity for new innovations and businesses. So iBeacon really is the digital equivalent of something we all take for granted: analog…
White African · HASH
What Twitter can tell us about African cities
The Atlantic just wrote this emotional piece predicting Twitter’s demise (don’t worry, apparently they write a lot of “end of” stories). Personally, I believe Mark Twain’s misquote fits perfectly here, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” My friend Jonathan Ledgerd just sent me some links to the work…
The Morning News - Headlines
April 29, 2014
The great majority of innocent defendants convicted of capital murder in the US are neither executed nor exonerated. Cities in Arkansas and Kansas, caught in the tornadoes’ paths. #photos America’s nuclear missile silos still use eight-inch floppy disks—outdated technology that’s offline and unhackable. The moon to…
bunnie's blog · bunnie
Circuit Stickers Manufacturing Retrospective: From Campaign to First Shipment
Last December, Jie Qi and I launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring circuit stickers under the brand name of “chibitronics” to the world. Our original timeline stated we would have orders shipped to Crowd Supply for fulfillment by May 2014. We’re really pleased that we were able to meet our goal, right on time,…
Waxy.org
Medium Is The Message
This month, I joined The Message, a new collaborative writing experiment on Medium with an all-star list of some of my favorite writers—danah boyd, Anil Dash, Craig Mod, Rex Sorgatz, Paul Ford, Joanne McNeil, Virginia Heffernan, Clive Thompson, Quinn Norton, Robin Sloan, and Zeynep Tufekci. Medium's Kate Lee wrote an…
Subtraction.com · Khoi
Moves Acquired
I wrote about the amazing mobile app Moves — billed as the “activity diary for your life” — last year and praised it immensely. For me, it was then and remains today a sterling example of software that is not only unique to the mobile experience, but transcendent because it is inherently mobile. In my…
stevenf.com · stevenf
Designer Duds: Losing Our Seat at the Table
“What Paper seems to be is a lovelier UI for Facebook. Path spent tens of millions of dollars attempting to achieve the same goal; both teams seem determined to ignore that for most users, the problems with Facebook do not actually have to do with how pretty it is.“
A List Apart: The Full Feed · Susan Robertson
Creating Style Guides
Several years ago, I was working on a large, complex application. It was a bit of a legacy project: many different designers and front-end developers had come and gone, each appending a new portion to the sprawling application. By the time I arrived, the CSS was huge, the styles were varied, and it took a lot of…
Sara · SaraRiggare
“The Patient Perspective” from The Journal of Parkinson’s Disease 20th March 2014
This is an article written by Jon Palfreman for The Journal of Parkinson’s disease, published on 20th March 2014. It is published here with the permission of the author. The original article can be found at: http://www.journalofparkinsonsdisease.com/JPD/The_Patient_Perspective.html. In October 1984, a…
Becoming Databetic · Doug
Quantified Self Public Health Symposium
I was thrilled to speak last week at the Quantified Self Public Health Symposium. The event featured 100 attendees including Bryan Sivak, CTO of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It focused on “improving access to personal data for … Continue reading →
ParisLemon
Christian Bale, shape-shifter
Christian Bale, shape-shifter: Carrie Rickey: Bale is 40 years old. Onscreen for 28 years, he’s been starring in feature films nearly as long as Barrymore (32 years), Daniel Day-Lewis (also 32 years), and Tom Hanks (30 years). Unlike those performers, who almost always play leads, Bale is the prince of ensemble…
doxa
Blessed with a great, fun, and super creative team. Amazing win...
Blessed with a great, fun, and super creative team. Amazing win at the Enable SG Hackathon using tech and design to enable the disabled within the community :) #teamheartware #upsingapore #enablingcolab #blessed #design #innovation #kerbiegoodness #saturdaybuild
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2014-03-28
“They Know Everything We Do” [via Boing Boing:] A new, exhaustive report from Human Rights Watch details the way the young state of modern Ethiopia has become a kind of pilot program for the abuse of “off-the-shelf” surveillance, availing itself of commercial products from the US, the UK, France, Italy and China in…
The Typekit Blog · Tim Brown
Introducing Typekit Practice
Fonts are great, but using them well can be hard. Volumes have been written about typography, yet every good designer will say there are no rules; there is no magic formula for success. Typography simply takes practice. Typography is a practice. So today, we’re launching a new website: Typekit Practice, a place where…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Lens Blur in the New Google Camera App
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
‘The Pinnacle of Fitness Failure: Samsung’s Gear Fit Activity Tracker’
Waxy.org
The Indiepocalypse at Webstock 2014
Last February, I was honored to be invited to speak at Webstock in New Zealand, along with Maciej Ceglowski, Erika Hall, Charlie Todd, Clive Thompson, and a bunch of other neat people. My talk, like New Zealand itself, was a bit of a whirlwind. I roused the hungover crowd on Friday morning with a look back at my…
AfriGadget · Juergen Eichholz
The Mukombe
Dr. Peter Morgan, winner of the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize and resident of Zimbabwe, recently shared the design of The Mukombe on the forum of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance. The Mukombe is a hand washing device – a “tippy tap” … Read more →
The Ad Contrarian · noreply@blogger.com (BOB HOFFMAN)
Hard Times For The Cult Of Social Media?
Becoming Databetic · Doug
Meal Memory is now available for Android!
We’re pleased to announce the release of our first mobile app Meal Memory on Google Play. Meal Memory takes a new approach to nutrition tracking. Our goal was to create not just a self-tracking app, but also an improved feedback … Continue reading →
Waxy.org Links
Pando on Stewart Butterfield and Slack
the parallels to Game Neverending are so fascinating