August 2009
165 posts
Guest Post by Eric Holter: Agency Website Gaffe... →
Stark realisation: I no longer depend on Google to...
alexjcampbell:
Today I had a stark realisation: I no longer depend on Google to find stuff. I still use it to locate things: e.g. “find me the Wikipedia page on Ted Kennedy’s acquatic activities”. But I rarely - if ever - use it to find businesses, places to visit, interesting blogs, etc.
The difference between finding something and locating something might seem mere semantics, but it is...
“A long roll-call of truth-sayers, dating back to the very first prophets, have...”
– Alberto Manguel, in The Perseverance of Truth
“Since my library, unlike a public one, requires no common codes that other...”
– Alberto Manguel on his personal library of 30,000 books
“At four, Bucky was fitted with glasses. The heavy thick lenses made him look...”
– Athena Lord, in Pilot for Spaceship Earth: R. Buckminster Fuller, Architect, Inventor and Poet
“If we spend our evening online trading short messages over Facebook with...”
– John Freeman
“Facebook’s prospective business plan depends completely upon the...”
– In the future, the web will be mapped by humans, not robots.
“The speed at which we do something—anything—changes our experience of it. Words...”
– John Freeman
“own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries,...”
– alexander solzhenitsyn
(via scribble-scribbles) (via libraries)
This is my new life plan
(via camiwillknow)
“The ultimate form of progress, however, is learning to decide what is working...”
– John Freeman
A Good Presentation on Measuring Social Media... →
Not So Fast! Sending and receiving at breakneck... →
From the Wall Street Journal. The opening two paragraphs are wonderful. Settle in for a good read:
The boundlessness of the Internet always runs into the hard fact of our animal nature, our physical limits, the dimensions of our cognitive present, the overheated capacity of our minds. “My friend has just had his PC wired for broadband,” writes the poet Don Paterson. “I meet...
“Publishing is a sustainable industry—and a great one at that. The book business,...”
– Douglass Rushkoff on Why Scaling Down is Good for Publishing.
Look, I love reading, but there are definitely too many books out there.
“You must fight fire with fire. If you bring in Harold’s peers from...”
– G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis Vitón on “The Brilliant Naysayer:”
Most every company has a Harold (or Harriet). Typically he has been with the company for 20-plus years. He knows more about industry norms, the company’s intellectual property, inter-office politics, and the...
“In the past decade, much of the work we do has moved away from the piles on our...”
– Stephen Baker, on the worker. From his book, The Numerati.
Either Tumblarity is simply a social experiment,...
Agree? Disagree?
“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
Scenes from the Violent Twilight of Oil →
Peter Maass writes for ForeignPolicy.com:
It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil — and the people and places that make it — was my obsession.
Across the globe, oil is invoked as an agent of destiny. Oil will make you rich, oil will make you poor, oil will bring war, oil will deliver peace, oil will shape our world as much as the glaciers did in the Ice...
“There is no way back into the past; the choice, as Wells once said, is the...”
– Arthur C. Clarke, Interplanetary Flight, 1950
“We must turn our guns away from each other and outwards, to defend the Earth,...”
– Buzz Aldrin and Rick Tumlinson, Ad Astra Online, 2006
WatchThe motivation problem is definitely intriguing. Being able to see the “candle problem” solution in retrospect makes it seem so obvious, but as Pink points out, we do have a hard time seeing the box as a potential part of the solution (I’ll refrain from using any think-outside-the-box metaphor). He says that similar problems, tested under a motivation of financial reward, show...
“The creation of a cosmic diaspora is just one argument for putting humans in...”
– Kim Stanley Robinson, on the prospect of exploring space
“My issue is that it’s not just gaming. It’s social networking. It’s the Web in...”
– Jim McGregor, In-Stat analyst