January 2012
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“Question everything generally thought to be obvious.”
– —Dieter Rams
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“While I want people to judge me on the quality of my work— I’d rather they judge me on the effect of that work, and that of the work I choose.” —Courtney Bolton
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“Technological Revolutions & the Changing Behavior of Financial Capital”
– Carlota Perez
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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With users increasingly exposed to content via peers through social media, instead of through the choices of schedulers or editors, are we in danger of not seeing information we should? Jeff Jarvis, as per usual puts it well: I constantly hear the fear that serendipity is among the many things we’re supposedly set to lose as news moves out of newsrooms and off print to online. Serendipity,...
Dec 23rd
iPad no iFad: Even though the machine is only 18 months old, iPad owners now have an astonishing 100,000 apps to choose from. The form factor of the iPad, bigger than a smartphone, but small enough to use standing up, is also creating a whole new category of use cases. Some professions - like doctors in hospitals - are flocking to it, and apps to support them are proliferating. South Korea...
Dec 22nd
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Solar
Solar is cheaper than kerosene in Africa and diesel generation in China. http://t.co/ulsWbb6a
Dec 21st
Windows is dead, Long live the Web It’s only been a few weeks since Wired announced the web dead. Not if companies like Google can have their way. This week it announced a set of drivers that plug into the Chrome browser, turning it into a de facto operating system. Techcrunch discussed the implications: Now, finally, even the tech purists can see the light at the end of the tunnel....
Dec 20th
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“My interest in #Scala arose because a type-safe, expressive, functional-O/O hybrid, JVM language hit a sweet spot.” http://t.co/h7IGbBKu
Dec 19th
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courtney: I agree we need to be able to search text & images across the “contents” of the “file,” says @eMax to Q & I
Dec 18th
Dec 18th
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Woos: a fantastic mashup between PeerIndex and Foursqare.
Dec 17th
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Dear default stringsAsFactors = T, please die.
-Sincerely, as.numeric() #rstats
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Google wants you to map neighborhoods, parks, cities & streets to create a crowd-sourced global map - http://t.co/h …
Dec 15th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle… to...”
– Lou Dorfsman, Habits of Creative People
Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Die a Designer!
Die a Designer: 10 Steps to Staying Relevant for the Next 40 Years: http://t.co/1TP95RHk
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Jack Gilbert, from “Rain”
I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.
Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Yuri’s Night: A global celebration of the first human to go to outer space & his message to enhance & protect our planet, not destroy it. Happens on Earth, every April 12th.
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
Usability is not a verb « Scott Berkun →
The real question: Who has the most control over how well a thing is made? That’s really what all of us want: well made things. The answer to the question is always either: A) People who do the making, or B) People in charge of the makers. For all their progress, most usability/design folks are still neither A nor B. Instead most are C) people who try to convince A or B to make things in a...
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Continuations: Net Neutrality Is Critical for... →
I am glad to see the net neutrality debate raging. As Union Square Ventures and on our personal blogs (AVC, Continuations) we have long been proponents of net neutrality (the USV link is from 2006!). Our own bias here is clear: we are pro-startup and pro-innovation. Both are of course…
Dec 3rd
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10 Steps to Maintaining Your Community: →
Center for Civic Partnerships: Sustainability Tools 1. Create a shared understanding of sustainability. Sustainability means different things to different people. To some, it’s about getting more money. To others, it’s about keeping partners and volunteers engaged. It may even get someone thinking about new things for the group to do. These different definitions of sustainability point out the...
Dec 2nd
Charmane’s Star, at The Summit (bar): Russian standard vodka, cucumber, shiso leaf, fresh lime, Vietnamese cinnamon infused w agave, herb bitters http://t.co/SSBOSrAC
Dec 1st