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Blog Post Archive
No, We Should Not Protest The Yahoo Tumblr Acquisition
Paul Higgins wonders if we should oppose the Tumblr acquisition by Yahoo: Paul Higgins, The Community, Tumblr and Yahoo - Do we Protest? There are a couple of services that are really important to my life and my business. One of them is Tumblr and the other is Evernote. Show More Summary
"Gretel Ehrlich said of those yawning Wyoming spaces that she loves, “Its absolute indifference..."
“Gretel Ehrlich said of those yawning Wyoming spaces that she loves, “Its absolute indifference steadied me.” I know what she meant. We spend our days trying to be big. In the middle of nowhere, though, we can surrender to smallness again and instead find where we fit in the landscape. Show More Summary
"All new ideas comes from dreams."
“All new ideas comes from dreams.” - Tomonori Kagaya (via Springwise)
Facebook Phone Flops
Wow, it’s even worse of an idea than I thought. Zach Epstein, HTC First discontinued by AT&T: First ‘Facebook phone’ a flop The HTC First, or “ Facebook phone” as many prefer to call it, is officially a flop. It certainly wasn’t a good...Show More Summary
"It’s about moments in life that are great but don’t last. They don’t go on, but you always have the..."
““It’s about moments in life that are great but don’t last. They don’t go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That’s what I was thinking about.”” - Sofia Coppola on Lost In Translation
App: The First Second Screen Film Second screen comes to the...
App: The First Second Screen Film
Second screen comes to the movies with an app-enabled film, appropiately named APP. The film is about a young psychology student Anna Rijnders who, after a dramatic accident in which her ??younger brother...Show More Summary
"As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth … the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals,..."
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth … the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. Show More Summary
"In a pluralist world, there is no hope of understanding people who live according to different..."
“In a pluralist world, there is no hope of understanding people who live according to different values if we only judge them from the outside, from what we imagine to be an objective point of view but is really one infused with our own subjectivity.” - Julian Baggini, I still love Kierkegaard
"We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body."
“We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.” - Marcel Proust
"Nothing ages faster than the future"
“Nothing ages faster than the future” - David Carr, Live Blogging the iPad Product Announcement The full sentence — Nothing ages faster than the future when you get it in your hands — is not a soundbitey.
Gordon Lewis-Kraus and David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd
Lewis-Kraus responds in the New Yorker to a recent slander of David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd by Lee Siegel, and makes a case for the utility of Riesman’s ideas: Gordon Lewis-Kraus, Yelp and the Wisdom of ‘The Lonely Crowd’ David Riesman spent the first half of his career writing one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Show More Summary
"Pinterest is largely a site of unrealized dreams."
“Pinterest is largely a site of unrealized dreams.” - Jenna Anderson of Pinterest Fail, cited in ‘Pinterest stress’ afflicts nearly half of moms, survey says
"Maligned as a bunch of shiftless, tech-addled children raised to think they’d all get trophies,..."
“Maligned as a bunch of shiftless, tech-addled children raised to think they’d all get trophies, Millennials are trying to build careers out of the ruins of a job market. Amid a group that’s supposed to be a bunch of entitled kids, all...Show More Summary
A Bidding War For Waze, The Crowdsourced Mapping Service
Vindu Goel, Facebook Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Waze Waze, which has more than 40 million users globally, is unusual in that it relies primarily on GPS data and real-time information from its users, who contribute updates on traffic,...Show More Summary
"You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you."
““You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”” - James Baldwin (via ladyvenoms)
"We must never forget we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural..."
“We must never forget we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.” - Alan Harrington (via inthenoosphere)
Growth Hacker
Term you will see:”Growth Hacker” formerly viral marketer, guerrilla marketer, data driven marketer. — Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) May 6, 2013 This is going to be like ‘personal branding’ — a term we’ll hear all the time but cringe every time.
(via Google Glass: An Etiquette Guide - WSJ.com)
(via Google Glass: An Etiquette Guide - WSJ.com)