January 2012
9 posts
Game on! #eh
December 2011
8 posts
“His description of the evolution of the web of interactions between machines is...”
– More on Facebook’s Timeline – confused of calcutta
Watching the polar express with the family. Drinking egg nogg, but given the movie… should have been… “Hot, hot, hot… Hot chocolate”.
There is always another perspective. And another. And…
November 2011
2 posts
quirky | social product development →
Great mashup of process, experience, and community.
“We do things differently from the big mobile networks. We’re run by our...”
– What a brilliant model. #socent #community
About Us, The Mobile Network Run By You | giffgaff.com
October 2011
3 posts
Fail never tasted so good. →
Just replace ‘spam’ with ‘fail’.
Mmmmmm mmmmmm good!
“They mean to show that there is an inappropriate and correctable disconnect...”
– Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it - CNN.com
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September 2011
5 posts
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“It’s a great reminder on how to launch a new service: it’s not about the tech...”
– The Influencers Verdict: the Google example | Loic Le Meur Blog
“At the end of the day, they are the voice, and we are their voice. We have to...”
– Air Canada flight attendants flash the Facebook wild card - The Globe and Mail
“In our culture, we’re suspicious of strangers. They’re a threat. They lurk in...”
– word
David Weinberger, linked from an older post on Caterina’s blog (via cacioppo)
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“Other services are declaring that you have to use your real name, because it...”
– @dickc
Twitter CEO On Google : It’s Complicated | TechCrunch
(via fred-wilson)
“You can’t solve this problem alone. You’re rebuilding an ecosystem. Who are the...”
– Revitalizing Struggling American Cities (August 16, 2011) | Stanford Social Innovation Review (via billyb)
August 2011
13 posts
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'Flexitime' school that rewrites the book on... →
Love this mashup #homeschool #oldschool
futuramb:
Welcome to the world of flexitime schooling which will see a child in Spain educated through Skype from the UK and a mother who splits her son’s education between home teaching and school. Hollinsclough Church of England primary school in Staffordshire is the first in the UK to introduce a part-time policy for pupils.
[…]
Now she has 11...
“It begs the question of whom Google built this service for? You or them. And the...”
– Fred (via brycedotvc)
Epic Stats →
Am really loving these…
epichq:
We love the data we are seeing in Epic and so we put up a quick page at stats.epic.io so you could see too. Here are a couple of my favourites.
Service Velocities: these are the average activity per user per month for each service we track. As of right now…
Twitter = 135
Google Docs =…
“We need white space because “that’s when we process what has actually been...”
– Do Less, Accomplish More | Think Tank | Big Think (via taylordavidson)
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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is...”
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Jack Layton, July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011
MP, Député Toronto – Danforth Leader of the Official Opposition/Chef de l’Opposition officielle Leader, New Democratic Party/Chef, Nouveau Parti démocratique
(via thinksmith)
The Future of Search: Verbs | Esther Dyson | Big... →
Another take by @edyson on search… from nouns to verbs.
“Information flows in the enterprise should always enhance the ability of...”
– A look into the role of curation in the enterprise by @jobsworth. -> Thinking about curation in the enterprise – confused of calcutta
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WatchI laughed… I… got really fucking pissed off.
rcoleman:
:: blood boiling ::
austinkleon:
World of Class Warfare - The Poor’s Free Ride Is Over - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/18/11
This is simply The Daily Show at its best. Amazing. Dylan said, “The truth is just…a collage of pictures.” In the Daily Show’s case, The truth is just a collage of video…with commentary.
Cory...
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Continuations: Double Dipping →
Very simply said. There is opportunity in things getting so bad that new structures are able to emerge. I used to hope we could see those changes without the chaos, but it looks like that’s just how we people do things.
continuations:
What happened in yesterday’s market underlines the deep bind we now find ourselves in. We have politically precluded new revenues and have shifted our...
July 2011
16 posts
Life awaits choice
There’s nothing like a blinking cursor to remind me that I’m not yet writing. It’s the starting that always seems hardest. An internal struggle of not having an answer of where to start.
As I write this though I realize that the answer is pretty simple. In those moments, I have choices. I can choose to keep agonizing. I can choose to step away and turn my attention to something...
“I just write what I want. There’s so many rules right outside the door. What...”
– Black Hockey Jesus
HT to Daring Fireball (via davehyndman)
“So turning 13 and beyond was both terrible and wonderful but the fact remains...”
– From Black Hockey Jesus, a nice letter to his son on his 13th birthday.
Touches pretty close to home. (via davehyndman)
Simplicity v simplification
Simplicity is what I often strive for. Simplification is often the path taken. But often not how I arrive there.
It’s like a driveway covered in a foot of wet slushy snow. Simplification shovelling away. Rarely, I’ll be able get to a clean driveway. Often I’ll be left with hardpacked tire tracks or more snow covering up what I’ve shovelled. Simplicity, on the other hand,...
A day of the mundane
Today is a day of the mundane.
I used to love working with numbers - which is probably why I still handle my accounting for anything I startup. But increasingly it’s not giving me the returns it used to. Sure there’s the satisfaction when I get the numbers up to date and get to see where everything stands - sometimes not a fun thing to see in startup mode - but I’ve done it...
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tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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