January 2012
3 posts
“Of course, if you stretch out the time scale enough, and are sufficiently casual...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
The New Aesthetic: Copyrights (2011- Ongoing)The... →
new-aesthetic:
Copyrights (2011- Ongoing)
The Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/) contains several paintings which have had a blur filter applied to them so as to make them unrecognisable. Google explain this decison stating that they were, ‘required…
“Hey Peter Thiel, instead of whining about the iPhone, Twitter, and internet not...”
– Kottke
Feel like this year is going to be a rant intensive one.
December 2011
3 posts
1 tag
Fuck Yeah Readmill →
Launched! Congrats to Henrik & David, and everybody else on the team.
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
10 posts
“Your head is a melting pot. You tell all the things you’re listening to to...”
– Tom Waits
Via metacool
“If you go on Tumblr, it feels like half of the internet consists of teenagers...”
– Tavi NOWNESS (via commedesfuckdwn)
“Close to 19% of Facebook posts are created on the mobile web experience, while...”
– Highlighted by David Owens in Mobile First
Thought this was one of the more interesting facts presented in Luke Wroblewski’s Mobile First.
“Lacking any real vision for its own future, football has allowed television to...”
– James Hamilton - War, Football and the Death of the Future
(not sure where I found it, was sitting in an open tab this morning…)
“Needs more love. Years on, I still hear him saying that, and it guides me. Those...”
– Frank Chimero
3 tags
The story of how Time, Bloomberg and Newsweek made their cover stories around Steve Job’s passing last week is pretty great. Especially how Bloomberg’s Richard Turley speaks about it.
I’ve become a bit obsessed with pacing and organizing principles this year. For this one I really wanted to keep pictures and words and charts distinct. Initially, I didn’t want any words...
“Smartphones are such connected devices that it’s very noticeable when they’re...”
– Duncan Gough - The Opposite of Things.
3 tags
2 tags
“The leader of the free world in an infomercial for a San Francisco technology...”
– From Joe Hagan’s article Tweet Science in NY Mag. An interesting read.
September 2011
11 posts
“My problem with “frictionless sharing” is much more basic: Facebook is killing...”
– Good piece from Farhad Manjoo on the implications of frictionless sharing. (via arainert)
4 tags
“ReadMill, a young Berlin-based startup subjected themselves to a withering...”
– Nice! Congrats to our friends David, Hinke and everyone at ReadMill for launching!
If you have an iPad, download the ReadMill app to make reading more social. You can track your reading behavior and highlight and share any passage in the book.
ReadMill’s Disrupt encounter makes them launch early
...
“The role of the architect in the new digital real estate is to work at different...”
– James Bridle - Secret Servers
Fascinating visualization by the Guardian on... →
“But the Melbourne work we did assumed that web, mobile and wi-fi are the easier...”
– Dan Hill - Melbourne Smart City
“When I was in 6th Grade I fought Cesar Gaona and lost badly. I knew I’d lose, he...”
– Mike Vallely
I’m such a sucker for this kind of storytelling.
(via Jeffery)
John Markoff writes about how he found the missing memory of why he crashed during a bike ride with GPS data.
My Garmin was unharmed, and when I uploaded the data I could see that in the roughly eight seconds before I crashed, my speed went from 30 to 10 miles per hour — and then 0 —while my heart rate stayed a constant 126. By entering the GPS data into Google Maps, I could see just where I...
“Hilarious New Year’s Eve 2000 Story...
August 2011
4 posts
“The first 100 foursquare users - the ones that really helped us shape the...”
– @dens (via brycedotvc)
“It’s imperative to work with technologists through the creative process: they...”
– Infovore » Technology As A Material (via iamdanw)
“When I asked if it troubled him when people didn’t understand the...”
– He Might Be A Prophet. That, Or The Greatest Chef In The World.
Amazing article on Ferran Adriá.
Finished it with the feeling that every little bit of money that I spend on food, that isn’t at an Adriá restaurant, simply is a waste.
July 2011
2 posts
“I mean, it’s still craft. It’s still work. I got to play with these orchestras...”
– Interview with Trey Anastasio
June 2011
14 posts
“They both sit there on the shelf, like dense packages of high-quality radio...”
– Russell Davies: Secondary attention and little boxes of sound
When I read this, my first though is of a summer house where you only keep one or two records. And read the same magazines every time you come back. It’s as the house only have one soundtrack, one kind of reading, one mediasphere.
...
“The panel imagined a new Augmented Reality version of Clippy, “Reality Clippy”,...”
– All Watched Over: On Foo, Cybernetics, and Big Data
BRYCE DOT VC: Think Smaller →
In the world of developing consumer facing services, perhaps most ambitious thing we can do is think smaller. Raise less. Keep external expectations low, while focusing our sights sights increasingly higher. And embrace the learnings that come through the awkward developmental process of pressing up from our bellies and learning to to run with the big kids.
Week 315 →
“Having lived in more than 10 different homes there over the past 20-plus years,...”
– Tyler Brûlé - The Power of Showers
Perhaps the most entertaining piece by Brûlé the last 12-18 months. Simply amazing. The 10 point checklist is a must read.
“It was unbearable. Two crazy weeks and the most unbelievable story I ever did. I...”
– Eric Bouvet
The shot that nearly killed me: War photographers.
“Tower Bridge Exhibition self-describes with “A visit to Tower Bridge Exhibition...”
– The loss of @towerbridge from a cultural point of view | Stef Lewandowski (via iamdanw)
“How long before Rovio enter the hardware market? I’m serious. This is what...”
– Infovore » Possible Futures: The BirdsPad (via iamdanw)
“So for lazily undifferentiated chains, the tide is only going one way. Let’s not...”
– Dan Hill writes good things about retail.
“Today, the five zip codes that occupy the mile of Manhattan between Forty-first...”
– Edward Glaeser
Just started reading Triumph of the City. Thus far it’s opinionated to say the least.
“If you’re going to work… work hard. That way, you’ll have something to show for...”
– Seth Godin (via simmy)
Yes.
(via 9-bits)
“A product is more than an idea, it’s more than a website, and it’s more than a...”
– via tricia, Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development | UX Magazine (via slavin)
May 2011
26 posts
