February 2012
“Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward....”
– Marshall McLuhan (via Folkert Gorter)
Frontiers people. Which frontiers are left? Inner and outer space. (via wreckandsalvage)
tedr: feedforward
“Part of why I like the bay area is because so many people there are in tech that...”
– San Francisco or Palo Alto? - Uncrunched (via davemorin)
tedr: Heh! I think people drawn to SF always cared more about the life party then the technology party. But the reason we kept Dogster in SF was we felt those people were going to have that extra creativity need to make product with soul...
“What if we in media are not in the content business? Oh, yes, we will produce...”
– What the media can learn from Facebook | Media network | Guardian Professional
Great post by Jeff Jarvis
“she’s adamant XOJane will stand out in a sea of sameness, a goal that hasn’t...”
– Jane Pratt Takes The Web | Digiday
tedr: Honesty wins
“The site is built for such engagement. It is part of an unusual partnership...”
– Jane Pratt Takes The Web | Digiday
tedr: This is not hype. It’s really working. Can’t wait to do more of this at Say
Watchhenryhugo:
Hugo discovers how cool the swing is! “You mean there are things turning above me? Wow!”
Mabel wore those monkey PJs!
“Although baad (also known as baadi) is illegal under Afghan and, most religious...”
– Afghan Girls Are Penalized for Elders’ Misdeeds - NYTimes.com
tedr: Fucking assholes
“This is so perfectly in the kottke.org wheelhouse that I can’t even tell if it’s...”
– Niggas in Paris at Midnight
Kottke, I know that feel. (via nickdouglas)
whatevs on the inside blogball ;) … just watch the video people. it’s funnier than even the movie
“Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at...”
– John Wooden (via brycedotvc)
tedr: anti-pivot mantra?
“the Bowie lyrics are a little different when you’re in bed past dawn, coming...”
– ON THE DEATH OF WHITNEY HOUSTON: Why I Won’t Ever Shut Up About My Drug Use | xoJane
Cat Marnell’s piece on the death of Whitney Houston is a must read
“Home is not so much a piece of land as a piece of soul.”
– Pico Iyer (via worldwideexplorers)
Watchmsg:
wordbk:
I’m extremely happy to finally link to this video our boy Shawn Brown made over the past couple years. It looks best if you play it full screen and turn the sound up.
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another awesome video my gopro got to be a part of. Great work Shawn! (glad u made it out alive)
Your friends are scary short!
“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.
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