July 2009
“Ikea. The Narnia of furniture, except you have to assemble the wardrobe”
– SiliconRepublic.com: Blog Digest - Digital Life
“Messages that are immediately delivered can’t, by their nature, be erased...”
– The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real - Anil Dash
“For someone on the maker’s schedule, having a meeting is like throwing an...”
– Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
“The day that Elvis died was like a mercy killing
America breathed a sigh of...”
– The Inconsiderate Mixtape: The Death of MJ Mach II
“The thing they don’t get is that the next thing, whatever that may be,...”
– Paul Constant Reviews Twitter - Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
“The fact that people can disagree and argue in real time on Twitter is...”
– Paul Constant Reviews Twitter - Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
“When anything is made, people will find a way to see their reflection in it. As...”
– Paul Constant Reviews Twitter - Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
“As in haiku, which has dozens of esoteric limitations, when you constrain a...”
– Paul Constant Reviews Twitter - Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
“We’re just learning what the internet can do, and we’ll learn a lot...”
– Paul Constant Reviews Twitter - Features - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
“Stupid is predictable; predictable is learnable; learnable is usable.”
– Unqualified Reservations: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
“We all know that there’s no fucking way in the world we should have...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: I’m really thinking maybe I shouldn’t have yelled at that Chinese guy so much
“or if she’s having a nightmare about that one time she came shooting out...”
– dooce®
“A macroscope is something that helps us see what the aggregation of many small...”
– Slide 14 of 44 (Scope at reboot11, Matt Webb, S&W)
“If DVDs were books, you couldn’t read a book from Europe while in North America...”
– Technology Freedom in Metaphor - Acts of Volition
“If Twitter were a phone company, you could only call people who used the same...”
– Technology Freedom in Metaphor - Acts of Volition
“Twitter is who you follow”
– Media Metamorphosis: What is Twitter? Twitter for Non Tweeters
“Can you explain Megan Fox’s appeal?
Yes. She looks like a porn star and...”
– Topless Robot - Bonus! Rob’s Transformers 2 F.A.Q.s! - Page 2
“and most important of all: view-source”
– Paul Downey :: ETSI 2.0
“detractors often don’t care that it works in practice because they already know...”
– Paul Downey :: ETSI 2.0
