November 2007
72 posts
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“Software is essentially metamorphic, and none of us—if we’re honest—can...”
– Jon Udell, Is software too soft? (emphasis mine)
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Vivaldi - Et in terra pax homnibus For a quiet...
“The internet has plateaued. Our site needs to be more like Spacebook.”
– A big media executive. And by internet, they meant their web-site.
“The path to my room was cleverly littered with attractive slot machines. I don’t...”
– Scott Adams
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Ravens & Chimes, So Long Marianne (Leonard...
SMS Servers Replacing PCs in India →
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Year of the Pig: GQ →
David Chang, serving it up right.
Jens Lekman, You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon Cover)...
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Impressionist Presence and Lost Content
Fred Wilson: But what if my dashboard gets too clogged? What if I can’t get through all of it anymore? […] This party called Tumblr is getting wild and crazy. I don’t want it to end up like Facebook. There has to be a better way. marco: I’ve found it to be very manageable following 143 people. (Not every person posts every day.) Every morning, I have to scan through about...
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It's the Links Stupid! - Savage
For whatever reason, geeks have traditionally equated links with HTML and therefore have not understood their power. On the grand scale, this failure has led to the Soap/WS* detour and the painfully slow adoption of REST. On a smaller scale, it results in developers creating custom xml formats like this (borrowing Peter’s example): <person> <accounts> ...
“It’s not that Zuckerberg’s not news; and it’s not that business isn’t some...”
– Zeldman
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HDR photo software & plugin →
Revisit: can you increase the dynamic range of a digital image without making it look like a Saturday morning cartoon.
FollowOnTumblr
joelaz: If you use Tumblr, please consider reblogging this post and updating it with the people you FollowOnTumblr.marco, squashed, andrewparker, rubinrecommends, courtneyc, skidder, m-in-e, fred-wilson, paulgiacherio, elainecarroll, vincentpeone, zachklein, gknauss, fascinated, ariw, huge, gtmcknight, esquareda, brainy, jakoblodwick, samreich, koz, dieter, and david.
Essential MediaTech Keynote: Reid Hoffman of... →
Great talk. In what order should you make your gambles? Compelling case for building user-base and engagement before worrying about engagement.
Verizon Wireless to open up network - MarketWatch →
Holy crap, Bullwinkle!
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The Kick Is Up and It’s ... A Career Killer - New... →
Michael Lewis on the injustice of being a kicker in the NFL.
Mobile Web Bad, Mobile Data Good? - GigaOM →
Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far - New York Times →
It all looks good, but the wireless communications business smacks of a soap opera, with disaster lurking like your next dropped call.
Unqualified Reservations: Five problems with... →
The genius of the Web was that instead of standardizing APIs, it standardized document types. While at a certain point it developed a programming model on top of its document model, it started with a major advantage in simplicity.
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A Short Talk about Richard Feynman - Stephen... →
Al Roth Engages Crowd in Frank Discussion on... →
“When a Banana Republic catalog starts to look like the trendy, vacuous pages of...”
– Amy Spindler
“From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. I started turning out...”
– P.G. Wodehouse, Paris Review. Also true of web app creators?
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“What if the gov’t gave Apple $300 for each iPod they manufactured. They would...”
– Jakob Lodwick on the U.S. farm subsidies (read the whole thing) (with Marco’s editing)
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How to Win at Monopoly - a Surefire Strategy →
Benjamin Stein - Why Facebook Ads Ain't Shit →
Ben rants about data. Obvious, interesting, and necessary.
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christmasgorilla: Reading an RFP from a ‘public benefit corporation.’
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The Degentrification of Red Hook - New York... →
a last bastion
The Pothole Paradox (on local blogging and news) -... →
Say you’ve got a particularly nasty pothole on your street: when the town or city finally decides to fix the pothole, that event is genuinely news in your world. News about a pothole repair just five blocks from your street is the least interesting thing in the entire world.
Seedy Seeds - The Little Patton via emy
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Rough Rider: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker →
The one and only Sam Zell.
“Whenever American men of power experience anxiety, they want to go see a...”
– Patty Limerick. Ouch.
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“The flip side of egalitarianism is envy and there’s plenty of that to go...”
– The Decline and Fall of the British University
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