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September 27, 2012
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Data mine your body with biometric devices – The Globe and Mail
It takes 2,886 steps to get from my house to the offices of The Globe and Mail, a trip I make in 26 minutes and 41 seconds, in the process burning 185 calories. Pretty much everything you do, from the type of breakfast cereal you buy to your decision to read this article, generates data. As such,…
September 26, 2012
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Dwolla
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Ben Milne founded Dwolla There’s a tiny 12-person startup churning out of Des Moines, Iowa. Dwolla was founded by 28-year-old Ben Milne; it’s an innovative online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely. Milne has no finance background, yet his little…
September 25, 2012
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Essential UX Layers for Agile and Lean Design Teams
by Jared M. Spool on May 11, 2011 It was puzzling to see how our team was so wrong in this design. At the time, it had seemed like the team made all the right decisions. But now, seeing the real users interacting with it, our only excuse is we just didn’t know what we were doing. This little piece…
September 24, 2012
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Are You Saying “No” When You Could Be Saying “Yes” in Your Web Forms?
Error messages seem like an unimportant and incredibly boring part of crafting a user experience. But the tonality of error messages can swing the experience around from an almost certain abandonment to a conversion. Some years ago, while checking in at the airport in Stockholm on my way to the…
September 23, 2012
September 22, 2012
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Reading the dictionary – Joi Ito’s Web
I have some amazing friends who tell me that when they were young, they read the dictionary from cover to cover. Other friends of mine have read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. My sister calls me an "interest driven learner." I think that’s code for "short attention span" or "not a good long…
September 21, 2012
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? – Magazine – The Atlantic
"Curating the exhibition of the self has become a 24/7 occupation." – The Atlantic: http://t.co/0QmohVZG via @pkedrosky
September 20, 2012
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The Wireâs David Simon Teaches Us How To Spot Fabulists Like Mike Daisey – The Daily Beast
The Wire’s David Simon Teaches Us How To Spot Fabulists Like Mike Daisey: http://t.co/yjO9gdTf
September 19, 2012
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Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Tim Berners-Lee said personal data could help computers offer services such as telling you what to read in the morning. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian Tim Berners-Lee , the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as…
September 18, 2012
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The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future – Technology – The Atlantic
After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups. Finnish teenagers performing digital ennui in 1996 2006. Reuters. We’re there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the…
September 17, 2012
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Carriers Warn of Crisis in Mobile Spectrum – NYTimes.com
AT&T , Verizon , T-Mobile and Sprint say they need more radio spectrum, the government-rationed slices of radio waves that carry phone calls and wireless data. The wireless carriers say that in the next few years they may not have enough of it to meet the exploding demands for mobile data. The…
September 16, 2012
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Meet Kraftwerk’s Original 3-D Animator, Rebecca Allen | Underwire | Wired.com
Allen embraces the model of former Kraftwerk drummer Wolfgang Flur. Photo: Linda Law, courtesy Rebecca Allen Kraftwerk wireframe, created by Rebecca Allen and her team in the mid-1980s. Photo: Courtesy Rebecca Allen Kraftwerk inspect each other. Photo: Courtesy Rebecca Allen Close-up of Florian’s…
September 15, 2012
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Evan Williams | evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups
Just re-read @ev’s ten rules for startups. Incredible to think it was written in 2005, especially wrt casual content http://t.co/psaBNtcz
September 14, 2012
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What Amazon’s ebook strategy means – Charlie’s Diary
It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don’t really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry. So I’m going to take a stab at explaining. Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos . And today it’s the world’s…
September 13, 2012
September 12, 2012
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When Losers Write History – Reason Magazine
(Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a chapterin Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse ofJournalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It , publishedby The New Press in 2011.) MORE ARTICLES BY Matt Welch Debt Denialists 9.20.16 6:00 am The Constitutional Remnant 9.05.16…
September 11, 2012
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Penn Jillette: Vissa D’arte Even on The Celebrity Apprentice
I first saw The Who on TV. I was watching with my parents, and when Pete, Roger, and Keith started smashing their instruments, my family was appalled. We were just barely middle class. My dad was a jail guard and we lived in a nice neat little house that my parents had built with their own hands. I…
September 10, 2012
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Why You Should Be Optimistic About the Future | Epicenter | Wired.com
It’s a blizzard of bad news out there: an ongoing economic crisis, a burgeoning education crisis, healthcare turmoil, energy poverty, water scarcity — to name but a few of our fears. So pervasive is our sense of doom and gloom, that those telling a different story can rarely be heard. And there’s a…
September 9, 2012
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People Make Poor Monitors for Computers at Macroeconomic Resilience
People Make Poor Monitors for Computers http://t.co/Mghr1eWx A chilling extrapolation from the ’09 Air France crash to society generally.
September 8, 2012
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Technology makes everything pretty – even cardboard boxes
cool cardboard boxes from all the X-every-month subscription startups http://t.co/a4AbEJ5n
September 7, 2012
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‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt – NYTimes.com
Illustrations by Johnny Selman You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure they’re being duped. You’re wrong. This isn’t an accusation from the right. It’s a friendly…
September 6, 2012
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» Sovereign-source vs. administrative identity ProjectVRM
You know who you are. So does the IRS, the DMV, and every Website you’ve ever made up a login and a password for — so it could “know” you. But none of those entities really knows you. What they know is what the techies call a namespace . What they have isn’t your identity, but an identifier. What…
September 5, 2012
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Agile development is more culture than process and why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance and difficulty in teaching and learning the approach
Why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance and difficulty in teaching and learning the approach Culture, not process I’d been working with Josh and lots of others at his company for many months aiding with their agile adoption. Finally, things were beginning to go…
September 4, 2012
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Why Magicians Are a Scientist’s Best Friend | Wired Science | Wired.com
A magician will instantly see the truth behind any colleague’s illusion. But we have a bit of an advantage: We know we are being fooled. Scientists are instinctive doubters who employ a rigorous method to zero in on the truth, but they aren’t necessarily trained to expect deception by subjects and…
September 3, 2012
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The Gettysburg Principles for Keeping Your Customers
Jeff Vogel is managing to make a pretty good living as an indie game developer, even though his work is easily pirated. That’s likely because he’s come up with an effective anti-piracy technique that he explains in a section of Principles of an Indie Game Bottom-Feeder , subtitled “Piracy is a Thing…
September 2, 2012
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The Overlook Hotel
New trailer for a 2016 UK limited theatrical re-release of The Shining. 2 weeks ago 93 notes Permalink Share Actress Shelley Duvall briefly discusses The Shining during a 1989 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. 1 month ago 28 notes Permalink Share Shelley Duvall speaks about her experience on The…
September 1, 2012
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Stargate and Ester Dean, Making Music Hits : The New Yorker
Ester Dean, center, has written smash hooks for Rihanna and Nicki Minaj. Credit Illustration by Michael Gillette On a mild Monday afternoon in mid-January, Ester Dean, a songwriter and vocalist, arrived at Roc the Mic Studios, on West Twenty-seventh Street in Manhattan, for the first of five days of…
August 31, 2012
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How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick
James Erwin, 37, works for a financial services firm in Des Moines, Iowa, writing software manuals. He’s been doing that for a couple of years, and he enjoys it. It’s a pretty low-stress job for a person with a methodical turn of mind—good pay, short commute. He’s home by 5:30 every night to spend…
August 30, 2012
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Is Kindness a Strategy?
A friend recently described a remarkable travel experience. Strange to say, the story was about an airline, and it wasn’t a travel nightmare. Instead, it involved the recently bankrupt American Airlines doing something extraordinary — by putting kindness to work. The story came from a colleague of…
August 29, 2012
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Vernor Vinge Is Optimistic About the Collapse of Civilization | Underwire | Wired.com
Vernor Vinge Is Optimistic About the Collapse of Civilization http://t.co/1cJtacuA