May 2012
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Can't I have my cake and eat it too
Is that too much to ask?
Startups, This Is How Design Works →
Wells Riley, startupsthisishowdesignworks.com
Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of “Good Design” (Wow, how convenient is that?) Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and functionalist industrial…
I’d say…everyone read
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April 2012
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As our digital selves disappear into the ether to be forgotten, in a thousand years a child will ask, “what’s an archeologist?” and no one will have an answer.
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Time and taste – Marco.org →
Marco Arment on why others (Microsoft, Google et al) have not had much success in challenging Apple
Most people don’t have great taste. (And they don’t care, so it doesn’t matter to them.) They usually like tasteful, well-designed products, but often don’t recognize why, or care more about other factors when making buying decisions.
People who naturally recognize tasteful, well-designed...
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Have gone post PC, now when will tumblr catch up (or is that catch on)?
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Applying Marx to Facebook-Instagram
It all makes sense…from Matt Webb, CEO of BERG.
Every “user” of Instagram is a worker. There are some people who produce photos — this is valuable, it means there is something for people to look it. There are some people who only produce comments or “likes,” the virtual society equivalent of apes picking lice off other apes.
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There are also the...
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The apartment is now suitably cleaned up that the cat isn’t dusty when he comes out from under the bed.
It is also suitable for a girl to come over and visit…now all I need is the girl.
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Scripting News: The Darwinism of the tech food... →
Dave Winer writing after Instagram being bought by Zuckerberg monster
We’re going to do more in the coming weeks and months to define what we mean by “choose not to participate.” But just to begin, for vendors it means charging users a fair price for a service provided. And in return, a promise not to aggregate the users into a fine pink slime that can be reconstituted into...
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Go It Alone
Are you lonely tonight? Are you out on the road? I’m headed home to go it alone again. Are you dreaming out loud? Scared of the crowds? I’m headed home to go it alone again. It’s realizing just how close you’ve come to death. and rearranging accordingly. I’m realizing what I’ve lost and what I’ve left and...
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WatchMy friend Leila Ashtari on Photographing for TV (by Knock Twice)
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Been busy doing some spring cleaning and came across memories of the past which made me wonder, more than what I usually do, whatever happened to that girl I loved so dear? Sadly there is too much water under that bridge to reach out and find out.
Actually the bridge is no longer there, it was burned down by my own folly.
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Less enthralled with tumblr these days
I haven’t really grown tired of it but I now have an iPad and find two aspects of it keeping me away from tumblr these:
The iPhone app is great but they really need to step up the game and get an iPad/tablet app out…relying on the iPhone app on the iPad is seriously constraining
Other than Flipboard, there seems to be no other real way of interacting with tumblr other than...
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March 2012
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Today
YTZ-> EWR -> NYC
