January 2012
8 posts
“We cannot expand our self, and our collective self, without making holes in our...”
– Kevin Kelly responds to @mat’s Gizmodo piece about CES: Making Holes in Our Heart
“One of the things I love about the Momofuku restaurants is that I get the...”
– hello typepad: The Bo Ssam Miracle
NY lawsuit: Foundation's banana use is unappealing →
Doesn’t the AP have well known style guides for headline writing? Because this one is just terrible, especially given the lede:
Legendary rock band The Velvet Underground sued the Andy Warhol Foundation on Wednesday, saying the banana design created by Warhol and used by group on its first album cover in 1967 should not be used by or sold for use by others.
That news is depressing...
“I’m forever wanting something new. Something I’ve never seen before,...”
– Mat Honan: Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
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“Hunter’s rule: Any communication service which publicly displays a metric...”
– Hunter Walk. He makes a compelling argument for why Path, which is supposed to be about intimacy, should only be displaying view / like / comment count type things to the creator of the thing being viewed, liked, commented on. Intimacy is not a popularity contest. In fact, quite the opposite.
December 2011
43 posts
perfect.
@SarahKSilverman tried that. Didn’t work RT When ur relatives drive u crazy just close yr eyes & pretend its dialogue in a woody allen movie— mia farrow (@MiaFarrow) September 20, 2011
“I remember every time a concert ended during which I was transcended above the...”
– A great bit from Ethan Kaplan’s post about his move to Live Nation.
The Verge's Long Piece on Kickstarter →
Maybe a bit too long, but it reminds me of Robin Sloan’s Stock v. Flow post. Features like this are the new stock.
How I’d Build an Apple Television Set →
This is a smart and interesting post from Guy English about a potential unboxing and autodiscovery experience for an Apple TV set.
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Q&A with David Lynch →
Sure, I’m a sucker for pretty much any Q&A with David Lynch. But what stopped me in my tracks is this description by Chris Weingarten of the new record. “Lynch plays narrator, taking us down alleys via vocoder burble, distended Residents hick-honk or fuzz-fucked whisper.”
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“I’m thinking about the need for proper criticism of software, alongside other...”
– Dave Winer at Nieman Lab on the need to improve tech criticism.
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“In addition to a lot of obvious intellectual and artistic achievement, our...”
– Michael Lewis on Berkeley.
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“We are so eager to conform to the collective, to fit our little lives into the...”
– How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect | Wired Science | Wired.com
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“People who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly.”
– stevenberlinjohnson.com: Anatomy Of An Idea
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betashop: Behind the Scenes: How Fab Raised $40... →
Great post from Fab CEO Jason Goldberg about their latest raise, and how they flipped the process on its head. Data first, vision & mission second. Their round was essentially powered by RJ Metrics.
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“The state of being ‘installed’ at a computer or laptop for an extended period of...”
– One of the Five Emotions Invented By The Internet at Thought Catalog.
Noun Is A Word That Hides A Flurry Of Verbs →
Black Hockey Jesus continues to bring it. “I’m not a noun. Neither are you.”
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“Kids want new material all the time. I think you become disposable when you put...”
– Rihanna’s manager, Jay Brown, quoted in Perpetua’s big Rolling Stone piece on Rihanna vs. Beyonce.
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“We now have big elephants stomping all over the place and users are gonna get...”
– bijan sabet: Mobile Platform Wars
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“Context is no longer “simply” the background to a story or the stories or...”
– Smart piece from Tim Carmody: The Future of Context: Mobile Reading from Google to Flipboard to FLUD
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“Here’s a thought experiment: Everyone over age 12 when YouTube launched in...”
– Andy Baio, unintentionally making everyone feel old.
The Germans have a word for everything →
“There are only so many CRT monitors in the world. Our conservators are going on...”
– Hirshorn Museum curators are stockpiling CRTs in order to have replacements on hand for Nam June Paik’s “Video Flag.” From a great piece on Neatorama, Modern Problems.
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“Only 1 percent of kids aged 10 to 17 have shared images of themselves or others...”
– This is a bit from some research that Gawker quoted in their piece Actually, Teens Are Not Constantly Sexting Each Other. But, um, hello, they totally missed the MATH part of this. 1% have shared, but 7% have received! Proof that teens — though not sexting as much as everyone feared they were...
“I run a paid bookmarking site. Every morning I wake up and dive into my vault of...”
– Maciej’s disclaimer at the end of his post Don’t Be A Free User. Can you actually dive into a vault? I guess it depends on where the door is positioned.
realizing the path
The new version of Path has forced the realization that my “Internet friends” (the ones who would likely be the people that are available to add as friends on a service like Path) are my friend friends. Most of them I see in person every once in a while, some of them I don’t. But they’re the ones I share my life with (some get more details than others, of course), but...
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“You’ve very badly damaged the movie by doing this, and I could not in good...”
– Scott Rudin to David Denby, bitching about The New Yorker breaking the embargo with a positive review of Dragon Tattoo.
Paste's List of The 50 Best Songs of 2011 →
Via fimoculous. Won’t someone more industrious than me please make an Rdio playlist out of this?
my washing machine sounds like it's about to lift...
