Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Links
Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
Assembla Blog · Andy Singleton
Seven Things I Hate About Agile
Last week Assembla posted a bunch of “agile” words on our home page. I resisted doing this for years, because the word “agile” doesn’t necessarily have a good feel to it. It’s a refuge for a lot of organizations and people that aren’t very agile. The original idea is great. It stands for releasing software…
Yoast · Joost de Valk
WordPress Archive Pages: the tutorial
Marketing Interactive News Feed
FT shows off 1m followers on Google+
Global - The Financial Times' community manager Rebecca Heptinstall shares the social media strategy that took the newspapers to its 1 million mark on Google+.
A List Apart: The Full Feed · Kristofer Layon
Product Management for the Web
Whether we prototype, write, design, develop, or test as part of building the web, we’re creating something hundreds, thousands, or maybe even millions of people will use. But how do we know that we’re creating the right enhancements for the web, at the right time, and for the right customers? Because our client or…
The Art of Less Doing · ari@lessdoing.com (Ari Meisel)
Things I Found Interesting This Week (8/3/12)
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO · Matt Cutts
Please turn on two-factor authentication
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · jaffry
Yasiin Bey + Niels Shoe Meulman.
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Matthew
Are Daily Deals Dead?
Waxy.org Links
Robin Sloan's book review written in Javascript
so good; related: Kill Screen's interactive memoir of Ico
information aesthetics
Racing Against History
In a lovely little 3D movie [nytimes.com] created by the New York Times, we see how every Olympic medalist in the Men's 100-meter freestyle event would stack up to each other. France's Alain Bernard would win (2008), with a wide distribution of Olympians behind him, including 2012's winner, Nathan Adrian. While the…
Google Geo Developers Blog · Carlos Cuesta
The power of places and big data for good: Google Places API Developer Challenge 2012
Schneier on Security · schneier
Profile on Eugene Kaspersky
Wired has an interesting and comprehensive profile on Eugene Kaspersky. Especially note Kaspersky Lab's work to uncover US cyberespionage against Iran, Kaspersky's relationship with Russia's state security services, and the story of the kidnapping of Kaspersky's son, Ivan. Kaspersky responded (not kindly) to the…
Marketing Interactive News Feed
Coke marks 100th year with new CSR push
Philippines - In its 100th year, Coca-Cola Philippines throws some marketing muscle behind corporate social responsibility programme, Little Red Schoolhouse.
Binary Bonsai · Michael Heilemann
The Usability of Windows 8
Apropros being Everything to Everyone. And yes, Microsoft is trying to address this problem with a tutoSkip. Wait what? How do I go back?
ParisLemon
thisistheverge: Nearly 40 iPhone and iPad prototypes revealed...
thisistheverge: Nearly 40 iPhone and iPad prototypes revealed in Samsung trial Yet another look at Apple’s design process Let me reiterate my stance that I think it’s fascinating that Apple wants to win this lawsuit badly enough that they’re letting all this previously confidential information get out.
The Morning News - Headlines
July 27, 2012: Afternoon
The “nocebo effect”—being told a harmless substance is harmful—can be strong enough to kill. On contemporary experiments in LSD, including “micro-dosing.” #longreads#tmn There was a kind of existential dread that hung over the entire endeavor. Jad Abrumad revisits Radiolab’s origin story. Geneticists say a cousin of…
CreativeApplications.Net · Filip
This Exquisite Forest – Project by Aaron Koblin and Chris Milk
feltron
explore-blog: Unprecedented look at the creative process of...
explore-blog: Unprecedented look at the creative process of infographic storyteller Nicholas Felton of Feltron Report fame, from this year’s EyeO Festival.
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
How to rescue baby bears trapped in a dumpster
asymco · Horace Dediu
5by5 | The Critical Path #47: Impatient for Growth
Binary Bonsai · Michael Heilemann
LayoutEngine
I've been involved with a lot of fantastic things for the new version of Squarespace, which launched last week. But the one I'm the proudest of is LayoutEngine, the component that makes it possible to easily create layouts for pages, blog posts or indeed any piece of the web. Check it out.
ParisLemon
markcoatney: life: Happy birthday, Stanley Kubrick. To...
markcoatney: life: Happy birthday, Stanley Kubrick. To celebrate, LIFE.com offers a series of photos from the set of ‘2001’ — pictures that suggest the astonishing lengths to which Kubrick was willing to go to make his vision a reality. Pictured: Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey. See…
Bustr Bensn
Everything I (currently) know about how to start and keep habits in one long manifesto
Everything I (currently) know about how to start and keep habits in one long manifesto: This “manifesto” is a work-in-progress. I’d love to hear thoughts and counter-thoughts about any of the 11 points.
Subtraction.com
Cassanet
The Spanish studio Atipo photographically re-created A.M. Cassandre’s famous “Dubo Dubon Dubonnet” poster. There’s a video of the process here, but more to the point, the project is a promotion for Cassannet, the studio’s new, Cassandre-inspired typeface — which is free. To follow me on Twitter click here.
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Danny Sullivan