June 2010
43 posts
Are any Tumblr-hosted sites listed on Google News?
I’m thinking about the distinction between “blogs” and “news sites”. It’s 2005.
Sites that ban you from linking to them. Still. In... →
The Royal Mail story about needing a licence (on paper!) to link is especially funny.
I would link to every one of the sites listed here if I could be bothered. And if the original writer hadn’t done it for me :-)
Sarbanes-Oxley Audit Board Provision Is Struck... →
Sarabanes-Oxley is a big-deal piece of corporate governance legislation introduced in the wake of the Enron scandal.
I’m no accountant, but I get the feeling there might be a bit of a fuss over this.
Update: It’s apparently less of a big deal than I guessed, but still interesting :-p
topherchris:
Moby ft. Gwen Stefani — Southside
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“Joy Divison. Postpunk’s answer to Pink Floyd. Bloated, boring, pompous and...”
– Feasting On Roadkill. Discuss.
A Reading List For the Self-Taught Computer... →
Mostly well over my head, but interesting in expanding my “known unknowns”, as it were.
“Take some normal people, where by ‘normal’ I mean people who have...”
– John Gruber
“Fun fact: since 1983, Frenchies have been able to retire at the youthful age of...”
– Hamilton Nolan, Gawker (via unsolicitedanalysis)
95% of France’s GDP is the direct result of Camus and Sartre (NB. may be a lie).
“The client sent an email campaign to a list of 74,000 customers with every link...”
– I’m not normally a fan of Clients From Hell, but that’s funny.
“Today, eBay is a juggernaut of the Internet economy, so it’s hard to remember...”
– Virtual Goods Insider
eBay was founded in 1995. So which ideas that sound crazy today will be de facto standards in 2025?
“While it was a cute and clever name, it had issues around copyright and...”
– Marissa Mayer on Google Product Search’s original name, “Froogle”.
Click through for the full post, but this sums it up:
It just seems the things that people are most excited about on the internet today are sort of like this anti-cocaine commercial: “I do coke so I can work longer, so I can earn more, so I can do more coke, so I can work longer, so I can earn more, so I can do more coke so I can work longer, so I can earn more, so I can do more coke…”
“Stuff is overrated if you like to move around. Don’t buy that TV,...”
– Reddit: what is one life lesson you learned the hard way?
I support this message.
“In my experience, when crackpots look at physics, they go after one of two...”
– Good Math, Bad Math
Here are some screenshots of LWG’s “Picasso: Peace + Freedom” app, out on Monday in association with the current Tate Liverpool exhibition of the same name.
It’s the first time we’ve made one of our virtual gifts available as a standalone app outside of the main “gift store”, so we’re really excited to see what people think!
“Any technology with the word ‘reality’ appended is always rubbish.”
– Augmented Reality: is it a Bit Rubbish? (via iamdanw)
5 Extremely Powerful Ways for Bands to Use... →
david-noel:
Have friends playing in bands that never heard of SoundCloud or are not sure how they can use it? Then this post will let them deep-dive into the wonderful world of The Cloud.
I especially like the “BandPage for Facebook” one. Seriously now, is there really any need for Myspace left?
How I listen to music
1. Think of hilarious genre.
2. Think “surely that can’t exist”.
3. Check Wikipedia to find it actually does exist.
4. Find out main proponents of said genre.
5. Stick said proponents’ names into Spotify.
6. Enjoy/cringe.
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http://twitter.com/PicassoNews →
Fun Twitter account I’m running for an LWG project.
“There’s no one who wants this thing over more than I do, I’d like my...”
– BP CEO Tony Hayward on the oil spill that killed 11 people.
“So you’re a ninja/rockstar designer, and you scored an unpaid summer internship...”
– zoya (via david-noel)
Half of what I know about business/marketing I’ve learned from earwigging on people smarter than myself who happen to work in the same office.
Is there such a thing as a "Google News for...
A site with topical gags from around the web grouped by subject would be much fun.
eg. One place to find all the funniest Onion articles, tweets, images etc. related to “BP oil spill” or “David Cameron taking all our money”.
iPhone 4
I hope one day the work of a government or charity will be as rapturously received as that of a profit-making company.
(NB. I’m a fanboy. I work for profit-making companies with shareholders. I want the new shiny thing. Just saying.)
Obama’s election and the US healthcare bill were almost there.
See also.
“In 1996, Webpages became media. In 2001, search became media. In 2005, people...”
– Stickybits Rolls Out “Official” Branded Bits, Signs Up Pepsi As First Advertiser (via herosquad)
“She should be suing Google for not giving worse instructions. As it is...”
– Best comment on this Boing Boing post.
“Last year, in Liverpool, Wavertree we saw the savage death of John Paul Massey,...”
– My MP, Luciana Berger, speaking in the House of Commons. I know this thanks to TheyWorkForYou.com (I subscribe to an RSS feed that tells me whenever she speaks in the Commons).
“An MBA will way-over complicate things with talk of deferred taxes, accrual...”
– “The business school curriculum teaches how to suck at startups”
Anyone up for some Words With Friends?
If you also play the addictive iPhone game, my username is simply “jonathandeamer”.