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
“teaching the web about the good bits of apps, and teaching apps about the good...”
– You knew the old Mozilla, meet the new Mozilla – david ascher
“They re-engineered the attack mid-incident to kill more people. They were...”
– Big crime meets big data - O’Reilly Radar
“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told...”
– Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)
“It’s not cute anymore if Twitter doesn’t work,” a source within the company...”
– What’s really behind Twitter’s staff exodus - Dec. 19, 2011
“So you spend all this time figuring out what’s different about what you do. You...”
– Are you Killing Your Brand? | Finola Howard
“I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay...”
– Christopher Hitchens Takes on Nietzsche: Am I Really Stronger? | Culture | Vanity Fair
“not the wish to die with dignity but the desire to have died”
– Christopher Hitchens Takes on Nietzsche: Am I Really Stronger? | Culture | Vanity Fair
“There is no god and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any single...”
– Exact nonsense
“apart from his swift and spirited dispatches, he’s best known for his swift...”
– Book Review - Hitch-22 - By Christopher Hitchens - NYTimes.com
“I personally want to ‘do’ death in the active and not the passive,” he wrote,...”
– Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary - NYTimes.com
“The entity making such a remark might be a raving, terrified person whose cancer...”
– Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary - NYTimes.com
“If there is going to be an upper class in this country, then Christopher is...”
– Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary - NYTimes.com
“In 2007, when the interviewer Sean Hannity tried to make the case for an...”
– Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary - NYTimes.com
“He took pains to emphasize that he had not revised his position on atheism,...”
– Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 — Obituary - NYTimes.com
“In the early days, these little hacks were endearing to the user community. Then...”
– Things I don’t like about Twitter 4 for IOS : Random Bytes
“To store it, we’ve gone from $1,000-per-megabyte 25 years ago to...”
– Tapping into a world of ambient data - O’Reilly Radar
“Words are UI
Words are as important as graphics and animation. Words are part...”
– inessential.com: On the Tab Labels in the New Twitter App for iPhone
“a murder of marketing executives perched around a big table”
– inessential.com: On the Tab Labels in the New Twitter App for iPhone
“Digital news operations used to think of their CMS as their one-stop shop: a...”
– 12 reasons the Argo Project will sail on — and some things NPR learned from the pilot » Nieman Journalism Lab
“There isn’t a shortage of developers and designers. There’s a surplus of...”
– Why You Can’t Hire
“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– statement
“but it’s actually a double-edged form of losing”
– Seth’s Blog: The trap of social media noise
“Second, I think it’s fair because the argument of who should be paid for what in...”
– [REDACTED The Dominant Cultural Form of the 21st Century - Click Nothing]
“Film and television are in many ways a technological enhancement and...”
– [REDACTED The Dominant Cultural Form of the 21st Century - Click Nothing]
“In the tallest high-rise, the lateral forces exerted by wind (and sometimes by...”
– The Shard’s bleeding edge: anatomy of a 21st century skyscraper
“U.S. banks direct holding of sovereign debt is hardly negligible. According to...”
– why-uk-trail-mf-global-collapse-may-have-apocalyptic-consequences-eurozone-canadian-banks-jeffe
“Keynote speaker and Storyful founder Mark Little summed up the atmosphere:...”
– Start-up that helps daily deal site users wins ‘Lift Off’ award - The Irish Times - Fri, Dec 09, 2011
“Keynote speaker and Storyful founder Mark Little summed up the atmosphere:...”
– Start-up that helps daily deal site users wins ‘Lift Off’ award - The Irish Times - Fri, Dec 09, 2011
“provide an opportunity for the use of computers to automatically create content...”
– Just to Clarify: Why 90% of news will be computer generated in 15 years