February 2012
1 post
January 2012
2 posts
Come back Bieber, all is forgiven.
A new Microsoft product is trending on Twitter.
I started reading: “The new release delivers enterprises a single, integrated management solution for private clouds…”
Well, as far as trending topics go, at least it’s a different *kind* of inane.
“If I had a nickel for every founder who told me how much data they were going to...”
– BRYCE DOT VC: Data Data Everywhere and Not a Drop of Value
December 2011
5 posts
My most-starred Twitter users of 2011 →
Based on numbers I gathered while attempting to make something more interesting with Python and the Twitter API.
“Lifestyle media isn’t a fad. It’s what human beings have been doing...”
– Seth Godin
“The girl was probably hired to assemble burritos and tacos, but on that day she...”
– Coca-Cola Freestyle: Drowning us in choice
November 2011
7 posts
“People don’t really have more than the following three responses to a design:...”
– Rands In Repose
“It’s a bit embarrassing to be a corporation that seems to be profiting...”
– Alan Moore, writer of V for Vendetta, on Time Warner and the role of Vendetta-inspired masks in the Occupy movement.
How much does downloading a book increase the... →
In case you doubted me, the science to prove that my bag is much lighter on journeys to London.
“You didn’t see Best Buy, Blockbuster, or Circuit City doing anything...”
– The most impressive thing about the Nook Tablet is that it exists – SplatF
October 2011
7 posts
“Whether you are in a relationship or single, working at the office or running...”
– The app store blurb for the female-focused MSN Onpoint app for Windows Phone is kinda patronising. (via The Appside Bulletin)
“As Manuel Castells, one of the first sociologists of the internet, said: the...”
– Paul Mason, BBC economics editor
(via feastingonroadkill)
“Just like Craigslist is being killed not by a Craigslist-like clone but rather...”
– Matt Mullenweg
“There’s a very strong culture of building mini-apps and Hubot scripts if it...”
– Scaling GitHub’s Employees
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“Amazon can give away the razor because they’re already in the business of...”
– John Gruber (via walpaper)
“The homogenization of eBay is a sad thing. Original arts and crafts have been...”
– Why eBay Will Never Be Great Again - DailyFinance (via iamdanw)
Rule of thumb?
The best part of a mainstream publications’ website is the “blogs” section, because it’s where smart writers are actually allowed to do their thing, not churn out listicles starting with prime numbers or commodity content slightly tweaked from Press Association or Reuters feeds.
(Caveat: sites that are solely problogs and have no MSM/old media affiliation may shove such...
September 2011
6 posts
“Assange’s method throughout has been to conflate the cause with the man and by...”
– Separating the man from the cause « Heather Brooke (via iamdanw)
“Some clinicians and scientists criticize giving genes frivolous, whimsical, or...”
– Sonic hedgehog - Wikipedia
August 2011
22 posts
2 tags
“I wish the rest of the world worked like the web. ‘Pay for a Big Mac? It...”
– Rene Richie (via Dave Chartier & nikf)
“I had the highest credit score at a time in my life when I was leveraged to the...”
– A Whole Lotta Nothing on Credit Scores
Daring Fireball: (1) Collect Underpants, (2) ?,... →
John Gruber describes the mistaken thinking of people now saying “HP should’ve always sold the TouchPad at a fire sale price, they’d have sold loads and been successful”.
I wonder if this kind of thinking is the result of a VC-funded, low-overhead web-service mindset, where it is arguably possible to put growth ahead of profitability in the short term? And now tech...
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Apropos an office conversation about "white...
Homer: Lisa, would you like a donut?
Lisa: No thanks. Do you have any fruit?
Homer: This has purple in it. Purple is a fruit.
Archetypes of “Internet of Things” businesses →
iamdanw:
Product companies who find telco partners to bootstrap the business
Web companies with prototyping capabilities and enough turnover to deal with some manufacturing
Advertising agencies who develop products ideas as PR
“It seems like every Mac-related site I visit or subscribe to is spending more...”
– Dr Drang
I see why Merlin Mann likes this guy.
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“I mean a couple of months ago Britain was Harry Potter and the Royal Wedding....”
– Ravi Somaiya, a reporter with the New York Times.
I’d hate to think American views of my country are as simplistic as this.
“Athletes without a disability also compete at the Paralympics: The sighted...”
– Paralympic Games - Wikipedia
Scattered Riot Thoughts →
Do check out tomewing’s full post:
On the “they’re destroying their own communities” meme: problem is, they’re not. They’re destroying what we distant observers liked to imagine were “their communities” because we assume a commonality of identity based on geography and/or race without asking too many questions about subdivisions of identity/community within and across those. In the...
“Only in today’s First World economies can people complain that they can’t get...”
– Ken Fisher, founder and editor of Ars Technica, responding to people moaning that the $5 Kindle ebook edition of John Siracusa’s Lion review was overpriced when the review was also published on the Ars site.
(via Nieman Journalism Lab)
“[It is hypothesised that] co-evolution of man and parasites has led to an immune...”
– Wikipedia: Allergy
Paraprosdokias →
davereed:
Examples:
“If I am reading this graph correctly — I’d be very surprised.” —Stephen Colbert[4]
“If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.” —Dorothy Parker[4]
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” —Groucho Marx[5]
“She looks as though she’s been poured into her clothes, and forgot to say ‘when’.” —P. G....