February 2012
“Home is not so much a piece of land as a piece of soul.”
– Pico Iyer (via worldwideexplorers)
“Upon leaving The Runaways, Currie released a 1978 solo album entitled Beauty’s...”
– The Runaways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Woah. (via rickwebb)
“Okay, I watched the Super Bowl. The ads this year were a disgrace. A cacophony...”
– The Ad Contrarian: The Waiters Are Doing The Cooking
“A young man wrote to Mozart and said, “Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing...”
– This reminds me of the best entrepreneurs I have met!
Malkavian Quotes
(via roelofbotha)
“Emails, tweets, notifications, text and instant messages, Facebook status...”
– Over Notified | Om Malik
Hi my name is Ted, and I’ve been suffering from notification since I first got online. I believe I’m a recovering notification addict, but all I can do is take each day as they come. And if I get through that day in control, then it was a good day
Over it.
I’m already over Tumblr’s new promoted post feature.
David, this isn’t some April Fools I’m falling for like the last time you had to clarify for me?
I so want Tumblr to have a rich vibrant native economy that makes it fabulously profitable so it can build even more great functionality … but this feels really exploitive of people’s desire of attention.
...
“What she and her colleagues found out was that [the number of mentions of a TV...”
– A VC: Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
The wider and broader the discussion of the TV show went within online social media, the more likely the show was to become popular.
Skiing On A Budget [infographic]
jetpac-app:
An info graphic I can get into!
January 2012
Apple Becomes World's Biggest Maker of Computers,... →
parislemon:
Cue dozens of people screaming bloody murder: “THE IPAD IS NOT A PC!!!!!!!”
Cue millions of the rest of us laughing at those people.
Just as with the move from desktops to laptops, the transition to tablets (or “pads” as Canalys humorously refers to them) is underway.
“But, but, but… it doesn’t have a keyboard!” Yes it does.
“But, but, but… it doesn’t have a physical keyboard!”...
“I also anticipate a ‘new’ form of anonymity will continue to gain popularity...”
– SXSW 2012 Q&A: Ted Rheingold - Scatter/Gather: a Razorfish blog about content strategy, pop culture and human behavior
tedr:
Functional anonymity is one of the most interesting spaces online to me right now.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: while I call it “managed” anonymity...
“I also anticipate a ‘new’ form of anonymity will continue to gain popularity...”
– SXSW 2012 Q&A: Ted Rheingold - Scatter/Gather: a Razorfish blog about content strategy, pop culture and human behavior
Functional anonymity is one of the most interesting spaces online to me right now
Burning Blog » Blog Archive » Burning Man 2012... →
Another year, another giant messy ticket sales process by Burning Man that could have been completely avoided.
“When you look at those two videos [2010 vs 2012] side by side, it almost appears...”
– “New foursquare intro video distances them from the check-in” sur AboutFoursquare (January 26th, 2012)
My favorite part of running this company is seeing people “get” the transformation from “game mechanics and checkins are cute” to “with 1.5bn checkins, we can change the way you experience your...
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
parislemon:
A lot of people have asked for my take on The New York Times piece yesterday about the true cost of making Apple products in China. Let me first just say that it’s an important piece full of good reporting by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. Parts of it are very sad — sickening, really.
But let’s be honest. The post focuses on Apple because Apple is now arguably the most successful...
“In case you were wondering, xoJane writer Julieanne Smolinski prefers not to be...”
– Xojane News, Video and Gossip - Gawker
“The top-level goal for most people is to convince others they are the...”
– Mark Hendrickson on social networks | The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast (via courtenaybird)
Whoa, that’s something to chew on.
