Month: August 2013
August 10, 2013
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Photography’s Third Act | Dustin Curtis
Photography’s Third Act
http://t.co/uwlmwz5L
(Some of my thoughts about Snapchat, Instagram, and photo sharing.)
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Interesting. Project Managers as “chaos destroying machines”:
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2013/07/15/entropy_crushers.html
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Dusting ‘Em Off: Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
http://j.mp/15YfMxY
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Only Nic Forgives: Gilchrist Talks Style And The Future With Refn « Movie City News
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Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox | TechCrunch
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Science is not the Enemy of the Humanities | New Republic
http://j.mp/16tBngQ
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Online news hasn’t killed newspapers.
http://j.mp/19RW1we
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@petenanacsik That’s a really good picture. Save that one.
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Everything you were afraid to ask about “Donnie Darko”
http://j.mp/16HbTyo
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Let’s use the Olympics to pressure Russia on LGBT rights.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cyd-zeigler/dont-boycott-ban-russia-from-their-own-winter-olympics_b_3720026.html
August 9, 2013
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The Unified Tarantino Film Theory and Django Unchained | Underwire | Wired.com
Recent Top Stories: The Unified Tarantino Film Theory and Django Unchained http://t.co/BJKAlKAB
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Fantastic domain censorship rant!
MT @DomainIncite: UK is going nuts about porn. GoDaddy and Nominet are helping
The UK is going nuts about porn and Go Daddy and Nominet are helping
August 8, 2013
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Redrawing the Tree of Life – Phenomena
In 1837, Charles Darwin scribbled a simple tree in a notebook and scrawled above it, “I think.” That little doodle represented a big idea: that species were descended from common ancestors. They looked different from each other today thanks to the differences that evolved after their lineages split.…
August 7, 2013
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“Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina”
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Seeing what your kids say/do PUBLICLY online is smart. Invading PRIVATE online spaces is a horrible violation of trust.
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What does randomness look like? | Empirical Zeal
On 13 June 1944, a week after the allied invasion of Normandy, a loud buzzing sound rattled through the skies of battle-worn London. The source of the sound was a newly developed German instrument of war, the V-1 flying bomb. A precursor to the cruise missile, the V-1 was a self-propelled flying…
August 6, 2013
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The Awkward Years Project:
http://awkwardyearsproject.tumblr.com
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@codyrennie
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Johnny Cash’s passport:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2013/jul/29/passport-photographs-celebrities-in-pictures#/?picture=413865892&index=6
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Turns out Don Draper is a deadringer for Jack Kerouac:
http://j.mp/1cHTFQa
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How to Get Startup Ideas
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startupideas. It’s to look for problems, preferably problems you haveyourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common:they’re something the founders…
August 5, 2013
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I joined Twitter in January 2007 and I’m user number 617,353.
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I took me six and a half years to get here, but I’m 9 followers away from a thousand!
So I’ve got that going for me.
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I’m honored to call @jenniferhollett a friend and happily support her first steps into political life.
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How to Fund Transit Without Raising Fares or Cutting Service – Eric Jaffe – The Atlantic Cities
http://j.mp/15Im5pa
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CONTRARY BRIN: Names of infamy. Deny killers the notoriety they seek
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The Forbidden Island – Neatorama
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Aim to be unique, not the best: truths about competition from Michael Porter | ventureburn
http://j.mp/19IRZGg
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The Web We Lost – Anil Dash
Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is an hour long, it offers much more insight into the topic, and I hope you’ll give it a look. The tech industry and its press have treated…