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October 14, 2013
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Scopitone: ’60s Music Videos You’ve Never Seen | Collectors Weekly
Before MTV, and long before we could stream music videos on our cell phones, mid-1960s American hepcats gathered around 500-pound, 7-foot-high contraptions to watch 16-millimeter Technicolor films of B-list pop stars gyrating to their latest hits. The contraption in question was usually a Scopitone,…
October 13, 2013
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The business singularity – Strata
An example of a simple function with a vertical asymptote Exponential curves gradually, inexorably grow until they reach a limit. The function increases over time. That’s why a force like gravity, which grows exponentially as objects with mass get closer to one another, eventually leads to a black…
October 12, 2013
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Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely « Blog – Stack Exchange
It’s 2013, almost three years after we first raised money and started growing beyond the first four employees . At the time, Jeff wrote a great blog post about working remotely, basically laying out our plan for how we were going to make it work. Now we’re a few years in and it’s time to update it…
October 11, 2013
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The Making of Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino’s and the Cast’s Retelling | Vanity Fair
In late 1992, Quentin Tarantino left Amsterdam, where he had spent three months, off and on, in a one-room apartment with no phone or fax, writing the script that would become Pulp Fiction, about a community of criminals on the fringe of Los Angeles. Written in a dozen school notebooks, which the…
October 10, 2013
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Designing to Reward our Tribal Sides
We are a species that depend on one another. Scientists theorize humans have specially adapted neurons that help us feel what others feel, providing evidence that we survive through our empathy for others. We’re meant to be part of a tribe and our brains seek out rewards that make us feel accepted,…
October 9, 2013
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The One (Really Easy) Persuasion Technique Everyone Should Know — PsyBlog
• Next article in this series: The Single Most Effective Method for Influencing People Fast • Previous article: When Does Reverse Psychology Work? It’s supported by 42 studies on 22,000 people and it’s the easiest, most practical persuasion technique available. I’ll admit it. A few of the techniques…
October 8, 2013
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Advertisers Should Act More Like Newsrooms – Baba Shetty and Jerry Wind – Harvard Business Review
A fascinating thing happened at the Super Bowl this year. Typically, Super Bowl advertisers meticulously plan every aspect of their presence months in advance of the big game. But this time, Coca-Cola, Audi, and Oreo didn’t just limit themselves to pre-packaged creative — they also had in place…
October 7, 2013
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15 reasons why Roadrunner by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers will become the official rock song of Massachusetts in 2013 – On The Download
UPDATED FEB 13: A bill to declare "Roadrunner" the official rock song of Massachusetts will be filed on February 14. And there’s a Facebook page. Scroll down for details It appears the two sides of Joyce Linehan’s life – politics and rock and roll – are coming together in a manner both spectacularly…
October 6, 2013
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Just because something has value doesn’t mean it has a price | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Google is a case-study in harvesting positive externalities. Photograph: Britta Pedersen/EPA W hen future economists look back on the dawn of the internet era, they will marvel that an age of such technological marvel was attended by a widespread, infantile mania for preventing positive…
October 5, 2013
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Maybe “Being the Product” Isn’t So Bad – Liz Gannes – News – AllThingsD
The often-cited expression “ When something online is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product ” is compelling and smart and seems to sum up the problem of living in an advertising-supported online world. But it also stops too short. People trot out this line to advocate disengaging from a…
October 4, 2013
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Daring Fireball: The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design
Dave Wiskus, in a thoughtful piece for Macworld, “ Apple and the Future of Design ”: It’s curious how Apple’s hardware and software have taken suchdivergent paths. Looking at iOS hardware and software separately,one might think they were produced by different companies. Thedrop-shadows and textures…
October 3, 2013
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This Will Be the Last Article You Read
If the Internet had a voice, I am fairly certain it would sound like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. “Hello Nir,” it said to me in its low, monotone voice. “Glad to see you again.” “Internet, I just need a few quick things for an article I’m writing,” I’d reply. “Then it’s back to work. No…
October 2, 2013
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A Radically New Ideas Machine: Kickstarting an X-Prize for Everything – Forbes
A Radically New Ideas Machine: Kickstarting an @xprize for Everything – Forbes http://t.co/0w4eyB31
October 1, 2013
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Can Nerd Nodes Reach Resistors Of Scientific Consensus? – Forbes
I just returned from a conference for science writer types who represented all spokes on the science-writing wheel: journalists, public information officers, educators, researchers, freelancers, and librarians. One thing we spend a lot of time yakking about is how to take on the seemingly…
September 30, 2013
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Alternative Rock is the New Classic Rock. | New Republic
Back in December, when Paul McCartney united with the surviving members of Nirvana to play a song at the 12-12-12 Concert For Sandy Relief , people could be forgiven for thinking of the performance as an attention-grabbing one-off. After all, multi-performer good-cause concerts are less well-known…
September 29, 2013
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Reflections of a Newsosaur: Why Digital Natives don’t like newspapers
Wednesday, February 06, 2013 Why Digital Natives don’t like newspapers Several years ago, the Washington Post convened a series of focus groups to learn why most individuals under the age of 45 did not subscribe to the newspaper – a problem persisting to this day throughout the overwhelmingly…
September 28, 2013
September 27, 2013
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Continuations : Micropennies: The Beginning Not the End
I have been meaning to write about the NY Times piece on royalties in the age of streaming music. People have talked about how real dollars have turned into digital nickels when music went online and sales went from records to individual songs. With streaming, the argument goes, “the river of…
September 26, 2013
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Face-to-face with the first placental mammal : Nature News & Comment
Nature | News Sharing Vast data trove shows that our ancestors diversified only after the dinosaurs died out. Article tools Rights & Permissions Image courtesy of Carl Buell The hypothetical ancestor of all placental mammals was small, furry and ate insects. After an asteroid killed off the…
September 25, 2013
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Vanishing Act – Lapham’s Quarterly
Subscribe My Account Lapham’s Quarterly About Magazine Current Issue All Issues Preamble Essays Voices in Time Contributors Charts & Graphs Conversations Miscellany Maps Quotes Blogs Roundtable Insight and analysis from renowned writers and thinkers. Déjà Vu Is history repeating itself? the Déja Vu…
September 24, 2013
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Searching for Robert Johnson | Vanity Fair
In June 2005, Steven “Zeke” Schein was killing time on his home computer when he logged on to eBay and typed “old guitar” into the auction site’s search engine. Classically trained as a guitarist, Schein had turned his longtime passion for the instrument into a profession when, in 1989, he had…
September 23, 2013
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The World is Getting Better. Quickly. – Anil Dash
Last week, I had a chance to sit down with Bill Gates as part of a small group, in a discussion focused around the release of his annual letter and the progress that has been made against the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals . (You can also read his annual letter as a 6.3MB PDF .) I’ll…
September 22, 2013
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America’s Alpha-Female Pop Star: Beyonce at the Superbowl : The New Yorker
Beyoncé, being Beyoncé, had won before she got to the Super Bowl, even though it involved defeating herself. Beyoncé’s version of admitting to lip-synching a pre-recorded version of the National Anthem at the Presidential Inauguration was to hold a press conference and sing that anthem live, without…
September 21, 2013
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U.K. architect Will Alsop designs Yonge St. condo for North Toronto: Hume | Toronto Star
Plans for a Will Alsop-designed condo at the corner of Yonge St. and Strathgowan Ave. have yet to go to the city. By Urban Issues Sun., Feb. 3, 2013 Normally, the launch of yet another condo on Yonge St. would pass unnoticed, except by the neighbours. But it will be hard not to notice the project…
September 20, 2013
September 19, 2013
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Users Know: To Kill or Not to Kill
After my rant last week about product managers , the excellent Joshua Porter ( @bokardo ) made a great point about it. He said, “In my own experience the hard part is knowing when to kill something vs. when to give it more breathing room, as sometimes a really new idea can’t really be tested in low…
September 18, 2013
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Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Illustration: Tom Whalen 7 Massive Ideas That Can Change the World Inside the Overstimulated, Underregulated, Multinational Caffeine Industry Mutants Simple doesn’t just sell, it sticks. Simple made hits of the Nest thermostat, Fitbit, and TiVo. Simple brought Apple back from the dead. It’s why you…
September 17, 2013
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‘Django’ Untangled: the Legend of the Bad Black Man – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Great piece on Django’s roots in Stagolee, Bad Lazarus and Railroad Bill: http://t.co/rfsjKUIT
September 16, 2013
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The End of the Web, Computers, and Search as We Know It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web. The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It’s already happening, and it all began with the lifestream , a phenomenon that I (with Eric Freeman) predicted in the 1990s and…
September 15, 2013
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Driving With ‘Moby-Dick’ – NYTimes.com
Is there a stranger figure in American literature than the narrator of “Moby-Dick”? He says, “Call me Ishmael” — the very first words of the book — but that isn’t exactly the same as saying “My name is Ishmael.” He could be anyone, of any name, but Ishmael is what the reader must agree to call him…