January 2012
“When Google buys Netflix in the next 18 months — and it will — it...”
– We Need to Empower Hollywood—Not Kill Hollywood - LAUNCH -
“For discovery, Twitter and Stellar. No RSS…stopped doing that a few months ago...”
– 5 Minutes on The Verge: Jason Kottke | The Verge
books & bits asthore: Banana-skin pirouette and... →
Nobody wants a motorcar till there are motorcars, and nobody is interested in TV until there are TV programs. This power of technology to create its own world of demand is not independent of technology being first an extension of our own bodies and senses. When we are deprived of our sense of…
“of the 50 cities in the world with the fastest Internet service, 38 were in...”
– The Myth of Japan’s Failure - NYTimes.com
“So what age are you? And do you live in the past, present or future?”
– The Dilbert Blog: What’s Your Permanent Age?
I’d be 30 and in the future.
“I am convinced that there will come a time when the web will take over and no...”
– 5 Minutes on The Verge: Sparrow’s Dom Leca | The Verge
“A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories,...”
– Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com
“I will make one comment about these kinds of arguments which seems to me to...”
– What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic
“If you think that mathematical objects are not in time, and mathematical objects...”
– What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic
“Yes, exactly! It seems to me that it’s wrong to reduce your life to one or two...”
– ChessBase.com - Chess News - Magnus Carlsen – ‘I don’t quite fit into the usual schemes’
“Having preferences means having weaknesses.”
– ChessBase.com - Chess News - Magnus Carlsen – ‘I don’t quite fit into the usual schemes’
“may sound silly to speak of file-sharing in terms of persecution, but when you...”
– Culture Desk: The First Church of Pirate Bay : The New Yorker
“Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale”
– Amazon DynamoDB – a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications - All Things Distributed
“Marcel Proust called reading a “miracle of communication in the midst of...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
“This makes you think that what made television so evil back when it was evil was...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“Some machine is always showing us Mind; some entertainment derived from the...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“Everyone complained about what the new information technologies were doing to...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“Commenting is a facade. It makes you think you have a voice. You don’t. Get your...”
– Comments Commentary - Matt Gemmell
“YouTube is the second most popular search engine in the world”
– Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube Revolutionize Television? : The New Yorker
“a gleeful letter confessing to the hack was printed by The Times. The writer...”
– Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz - tech - 27 December 2011 - New Scientist
“Our gay and lesbian families face the same hurdles as heterosexual families —...”
– Washington State Gov. Chris Gregoire, in a statement today about legislation she is putting forward to legalize marriage for gay and lesbian couples. (via breakingnews)
“ethylene is highly flammable, and in the early days of injection technology,...”
– Spaces of Banana Control
“The #Occupy livestream during the Zucotti raid — riveting at 2am as the viewer...”
– Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012 » Nieman Journalism Lab
“the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child...”
– What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success - Anu Partanen - National - The Atlantic
“The “cloud” model is becoming popular first and foremost because it enables new...”
– An interview with Notational Velocity developer Zachary Schneirov – Surat Says
December 2011
“We don’t know who we are or what we’re like, we don’t know what we’re really...”
– m.guardian.co.uk
“If you’re going to tell the truth, you better be funny. Otherwise, they will...”
– Frank Chimero: Louis CK’s Shameful Dirty Comedy
“Does a citizen of Greece do that deal? Forget that: does a human being do that...”
– Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: A Christmas Message From America’s Rich
“Air marshals have not saved a single life, although one of them did shoot a...”
– Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
“The web is a news medium, and you can’t compete ambitiously on the web if you’re...”
– The Atlantic: How One Magazine Became Profitable by Going ‘Digital First’
“I’d forgotten how good a newspaper is for keeping up with, well, news. RSS is...”
– Why the Guardian Might Be the First E-Newspaper You Want to Pay For | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
“A collective-action problem thus arises when people are dissatisfied, but are...”
– Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist
“What do you make a UI look like when it’s just information?”
– From Transportation to Pixels