September 2011
“I’ve been motivated by the reality that progress is possible with a leader who...”
– Kal Penn: It’s Time to Ignore the Paralyzing Cynicism and Get Engaged
“Amazon built an alternative to the iPad, rather than a direct competitor”
– Daring Fireball: Amazon’s New Kindles
“I spend my days scanning social media for news and contacts, collating stories...”
– Real-time Nils — Expad.ie
“But — nothing bad is happening to me! Why should I be crying?”
– GeekDad discovers Toy Story’s terrifying developmental benefits (Wired UK)
“At all times such information it contains is valuable; because without knowing …...”
– The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821 | News | guardian.co.uk
“recent analysis of 160 different studies found “clear and compelling” evidence...”
– Column: Real success is about happiness, not wealth · TheJournal
“I care about your opening hours: I care less about your ethics and principles”
– Don’t launch your website without solving these | Gareth Klose
“But what offends me even more than rewriting my titles and burying my links is...”
– A Business Insider retrospective – Marco.org
“Stop wilfully conflating optimisation with being a slimy liar. Stop being a dick...”
– SEO for Non-dicks - Matt Legend Gemmell
“I’m asked sometimes for advice on building an internet presence, and I usually...”
– SEO for Non-dicks - Matt Legend Gemmell
“Something is seriously wrong when men who live in glass houses, drive...”
– The unforgiven | Specials | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
“The discovery of faster-than-light neutrinos is, if true, wildly exciting for...”
– Faster-than-light back with surprising CERN discovery • The Register
“This is not class warfare,” Mr. Obama countered Monday in his Rose Garden...”
– In Deficit Plan, Obama Drops Compromise for Confrontation - NYTimes.com
“The question, in short, is at what point is a “part” a weapon? If you buy all of...”
– Is Printing A Gun The Same As Buying A Gun? | TechCrunch
“Oversighters have the ability to delete content and wipe it from the historical...”
– Tom Morris - Hari-gate: behind the scenes at Wikipedia
Hmm, don’t like that.
“The scientific method is universal. If we selectively ignore it in certain...”
– Diamond planets, climate change and the scientific method
“Microsoft’s ultimate goal is to wean developers off Silverlight and to convince...”
– Microsoft needs to tell Windows 8 developers now about ‘Jupiter’ and Silverlight | ZDNet
“The bottom line: Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable,...”
– CUergo: Sitting and Standing
“In our field studies of sit-stand workstations we have found little evidence of...”
– CUergo: Sitting and Standing
“Perhaps the most notable thing about naturalism is the way its philosophers have...”
– Why I Am a Naturalist - NYTimes.com
“That’s the sort of thing I’ve been talking to bankers about, and why I am...”
– Bankers: an anthropological study | Comment is free | The Guardian
“Still, the parents’ choice of New Humanitarian was in some sense an act of...”
– My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling - NYTimes.com
“Actually, though, don’t such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering...”
– What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
“To paraphrase the famous dictum, often attributed to Yogi Berra, that you can’t...”
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“The judges were right about one thing: 9/11 did help us learn to take more risks...”
– Design lessons from 9/11 – The Society for News Design – SND
“Certainly not when you are trying to make a hail mary pass, return a punt/...”
– Tablets are Empowering Users — The Brooks Review
“Ries: Continuous deployments. People believe that if you go slower you’ll get a...”
– Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries’ Radical New Theory | Magazine
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“According to Klout, Justin Bieber (who has more than 12 million Twitter...”
– Social Science - 2011-09-05 04:01:00 | Multichannel News
Bullshit. You wouldn’t listen to Bieber for financial, medical, automotive, real estate, political, educational, environmental or scientific advice. His influence is great, but in one domain. Klout scores are useless because they...
“they want to create better journalism, but rather than waiting until they know...”
– Correspondents Report - Libya’s fledgling independent media 10/09/2011
“It is a mistake to look into the mirror and try to break the mirror. Whatever...”
– Social Power and the Coming Corporate Revolution - Forbes
“YouTube (1g of CO2 for each 10 minutes of viewing)”
– Google discloses carbon footprint for the first time | Environment | The Guardian
“One thing about eBooks that most people haven’t thought much is that eBooks are...”
– Michael S. Hart - Gutenberg
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable
people attempt...”
– Michael S. Hart - Gutenberg
“many Twitter lists are highly reminiscent of library resource guides. Certainly,...”
– Why Browsing Is So Important to Content Discovery
“If someone really insists on sending me a Word document so festooned with all...”
– Steven Poole: Goodbye, cruel Word
“It seems like sometimes the family computer is bought mainly for the boy to use...”
– Girls Go Geek… Again! - Fog Creek Blog
“Carvin’s approach is to understand the relevant social media tool as intimately...”
– Andy Carvin: the man who tweets revolutions | Media | The Guardian
“I want to break out of the current paradigm where only idiots click on ads, and...”
– Counterparties.com arrives | Felix Salmon
“1883 The league calls for a radical overhaul of Ireland’s bankruptcy laws, so...”
– Indebted Fenians flock to Land League - The Irish Times - Wed, Sep 07, 2011