December 2011
1 post
Coyote Tracks: Paypal: feel the love →
chipotle:
You’ve probably read about (or even felt) the anger over Paypal “stealing money” from Regretsy, which is only the latest in a series of things they’ve done that have pissed the Internet off. I suspect, given the attention this is getting, they’ll fix this. (Unlike them cutting off Wikileaks,…
I feel your pain.
November 2011
3 posts
“Congress’ approval rating has fallen to an abysmal 9% - to put this in...”
– Dean Obeidallah, CNN (via maxistentialist)
Unsurprising to say the least.
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
12 posts
“This century is about having a vision for the way things should be, and the...”
– Seth Godin
This is something I’ve been saying for a long time, and it only gets truer with time.
“American design is consumer driven. What Americans want, they get....”
– Thomas Lockwood, Designmanagement Institute
“Why are they so cynical about conversation on the web? Because a company like...”
– Anil Dash
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Maxistentialism: A common sleeping pill can wake... →
maxistentialist:
The Guardian:
For three years, Riaan Bolton has lain motionless, his eyes open but unseeing. After a devastating car crash doctors said he would never again see or speak or hear. Now his mother, Johanna, dissolves a pill in a little water on a teaspoon and forces it gently into his mouth….
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs (via maxistentialist)
3 tags
If you read one article today, make it this one. →
This is the best interview with Steve Jobs I’ve ever seen, bar none. The man is a visionary genius, one of the greatest minds of our time, and in this interview he goes places I’ve never seen him go. He talks design, education, appliances, the web, publishing, cars, economics, the list goes on and on. So good.
“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of...”
– Steve Jobs
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10 Rules of Web Usability →
nassoskappa:
10 rules that will enhance the user experience of any website or online application /via
Anything that exists only to satisfy the internal politics of the site owner must be eliminated.
Anything that exists only to satisfy the ego of the designer must be eliminated.
Anything that is…
Well said.
“The more we learn about technology — and the more we learn about ourselves — the...”
– Shawn Blanc
August 2011
15 posts
5 tags
“The short answer is, “Learn code.”
– Frank Chimero on whether designers should know code (I say: the web is our medium. Everyone should learn code.)
It’s true.
“If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to...”
– Steve Jobs, during an interview at the WSJ’s D8 conference.
“As of 2010, the United States was the second-largest manufacturer in the world,...”
– Can the Middle Class Be Saved? - The Atlantic
“TV programs have not changed for half a century. They feature the same genres,...”
– Horace Dediu, Asymco
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“The iPad is causing such disruption in the PC business that HP, a company...”
– Patrick Rhone
“Nobody is investing in ideas. The next time your friend comes up to you and...”
– Gary Vaynerchuk on The Daily’s “Next Wave”
“Many people can’t understand why I went with an 11” Air, but in my opinion, a...”
– Cameron Moll
3 tags
“Laptops have far too great of a personal value to me. Having a desktop as my...”
– Shawn Blanc
July 2011
4 posts
“I’m a 24 year old college graduate that doesn’t read. Of course, I’ve read...”
– From a comment on an excerpt from Alan Jacobs’ excellent The Pleasure of Reading in an Age of Distraction over at The Chronicle of Higher Education. (I suggest you pick up Jacobs’ book, if only to read his thoughts on what it means to read for Whim.)
I think one of the most sad things is to not...
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via livejamie)
“Here is something else getting in our way: the smartest entrepreneurs of our...”
– Jigar Shar, Fast Company Magazine
June 2011
6 posts
“I’ve been on an 11” Macbook Air since the new model with the 4gig RAM option...”
– R. Stevens on The Setup
“Stating the plain truth, that the iPad 2 has no serious competition as a...”
– John Gruber, critiquing Walt Mossberg’s review of the iPad 2. This could be said of most of Apple’s products.
“Deutsche Bank’s Brian Modoff, cutting the stock to Sell from Hold, and chopping...”
– Brian Modoff on RIM/Blackberry’s management
Minimal Mac: Seeing The Future →
minimalmac:
Not long ago, at the mall, I found myself standing outside of the Microsoft Store which is strategically built directly across from the Apple Store. I stood at the window and watched the people playing in front of the Kinect demo. I made a point to look mostly at the players and the strange sort…
I wish _so_ badly that Microsoft would read this and do something worthwhile...
May 2011
5 posts
Living Life On 64 Gigs & 11 Inches
Frank Chimero (13” Air), John Gruber (11” Air), Ben Brooks (13” Air), Patrick Rhone (11” Air), and now Steve Hackett (contemplating 11” Air) have all chimed in on this subject of living on less in the digital realm. I have some fairly extensive experience, and some insights into the subject, so I figured it’s about time I joined the conversation.
Background
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The First 64 Gigs →
An interesting perspective on the 11” Air. I have my own view on it, one perhaps more ‘extreme’ than his, that I’ll probably share soon.
“The lack of thought is a problem as old as humanity. Thinking hurts. And as with...”
– Information Architects – A Web Designer on Fukushima
ShowYou - The Future of Online Video Discovery
ShowYou is a new app that was released for the iPad about a week ago after much anticipation. In a nutshell, ShowYou does for video content what FlipBoard does for text. First, it aggregates videos from your Facebook and Twitter friends and other interesting videos from all over the web.
Then, it instantly generates a massive wall of a thousand videos, sizing them to fit perfectly into a...
April 2011
8 posts
“These [Adobe’s] fees may be a drop in the ocean for large publishing...”
– Elliot Jay Stocks, in a beautiful piece on Adobe’s new fee structure
I’ve been boycotting Adobe products for a long time. Please consider doing the same if at all possible. There are some excellent alternatives, and most of us don’t need to rely on them anywhere near as much as...
“Since 1978, the price of tuition at US colleges has increased over 900 percent,...”
– (via nplusonemag)
Americans Now Spend $1.2 Trillion a Year on Stuff... →
Very unsurprising.
minimalmac:
Despite the fact that most Americans are still struggling in the worst economy since the Great Depression, a “non-scientific study” from the Wall Street Journal says that U.S. citizens now spend $1.2 trillion annually on nonessential goods. For context, that’s more than 11 percent of overall consumer spending.
From the Department of No Big Surprise.