A shot of JD

Good Tools Have Verb-Based Interfaces

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:52:58 +0000

Good Tools Have Verb-Based Interfaces

Come back Bieber, all is forgiven.

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:11:07 +0000

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 collect, well, I’d..."

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:33:06 +0000

“If I had a nickel for every founder who told me how much data they were going to collect, well, I’d have a lot of nickels. If I had a nickel for how many of those same founders knew what they were going to do with all of that big data, well, I’d have significantly less nickels.”

- BRYCE DOT VC: Data Data Everywhere and Not a Drop of Value

My most-starred Twitter users of 2011

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:17:08 +0000

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.

The Geography of the Year in Music (via feastingonroadkill)

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:09:28 +0000

The Geography of the Year in Music (via feastingonroadkill)

"Lifestyle media isn’t a fad. It’s what human beings have been doing forever, with a..."

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:42:05 +0000

“Lifestyle media isn’t a fad. It’s what human beings have been doing forever, with a brief, recent interruption for a hundred years of professional media along the way.”

- Seth Godin

"The girl was probably hired to assemble burritos and tacos, but on that day she was awkwardly..."

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:43:58 +0000

“The girl was probably hired to assemble burritos and tacos, but on that day she was awkwardly villainized in the role of soda machine information technology manager.”

- Coca-Cola Freestyle: Drowning us in choice

An illustration for Build & Analyze podcast episode #54:...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:02:59 +0000

An illustration for Build & Analyze podcast episode #54: Snob Blend by 5by5illustrated.

I would drink this.

"People don’t really have more than the following three responses to a design: It’s awesome. It..."

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:58:29 +0000

“People don’t really have more than the following three responses to a design: It’s awesome. It sucks. Apathy.”

- Rands In Repose

"It’s a bit embarrassing to be a corporation that seems to be profiting from an anti-corporate..."

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:22:36 +0000

“It’s a bit embarrassing to be a corporation that seems to be profiting from an anti-corporate protest. It’s not really anything that they want to be associated with. And yet they really don’t like turning down money – it goes against all of their instincts.”

- Alan Moore, writer of V for Vendetta, on Time Warner and the role of Vendetta-inspired masks in the Occupy movement.

(via merlin)

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:27:56 +0000

(via merlin)

How much does downloading a book increase the weight of your Kindle?

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:58:05 +0000

How much does downloading a book increase the weight of your Kindle?:

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 ground-breaking in video, or..."

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:49:37 +0000

“You didn’t see Best Buy, Blockbuster, or Circuit City doing anything ground-breaking in video, or Sam Goody or Coconuts doing anything impressive in digital music. Office Depot and Staples haven’t done anything special in online documents. Borders belly-flopped at everything digital. But Barnes & Noble has actually made a serious run in e-books, e-readers, and now color tablets. It may not last, or win, or save the company. In some regards, the Nook is still — as I wrote a couple of years ago — ‘the new Zune’ of e-readers. But it is here, and executing, and relevant. And that’s better than most other legacy retail companies can say.”

- The most impressive thing about the Nook Tablet is that it exists – SplatF

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Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:20:25 +0000

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Best petition to Obama ever? (via The Next Web)

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:08:30 +0000

Best petition to Obama ever? (via The Next Web)

"Whether you are in a relationship or single, working at the office or running your household — we..."

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:38:24 +0100

“Whether you are in a relationship or single, working at the office or running your household — we know you’re busy. We’ve handpicked stories & videos from leading magazines and websites so you don’t have to. We throw in the occasional eye candy and racy joke because, well, you deserve it. We get that you barely have time to flip through your favorite magazines, let alone time to stay on top of current events, books, and blockbusters; to gather fitness & beauty tips, parenting & career advice; to discover your next vacation spot or culinary inspiration…”

- 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 more autonomous and..."

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:21:06 +0100

“As Manuel Castells, one of the first sociologists of the internet, said: the more autonomous and rebellious a person’s attitudes are, the more they use the internet; the more they use the internet, the more autonomous their lifestyle becomes.”

- Paul Mason, BBC economics editor

(via feastingonroadkill)

"Just like Craigslist is being killed not by a Craigslist-like clone but rather by a thousand highly..."

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:48:26 +0100

“Just like Craigslist is being killed not by a Craigslist-like clone but rather by a thousand highly focused replacements, so too Google will face its existential crisis not from another webpage with a centered white box, but from the interface and context of search changing completely.”

- Matt Mullenweg

"There’s a very strong culture of building mini-apps and Hubot scripts if it helps with automation...."

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:52:48 +0100

“There’s a very strong culture of building mini-apps and Hubot scripts if it helps with automation. There’s two reasons for why we push hard on this. The first is most obvious: you’re letting a scripted process save you time so you can focus on doing real work. The second is more subtle: automation reduces institutional knowledge. Institutional knowledge leads to a minority group inside of the company retaining answers. That forces new employees to bother those few in order to make impactful changes. It becomes a very verbal, synchronous process, which we try to avoid.”

- Scaling GitHub’s Employees

"Amazon can give away the razor because they’re already in the business of selling blades. The other..."

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:17:38 +0100

“Amazon can give away the razor because they’re already in the business of selling blades. The other guys don’t even have blades to sell.”

- John Gruber (via walpaper)