March 2011
February 2011
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McSweeney's: What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band... →
So much goodness here. A small sample:
Steely Dan: You have snorted cocaine off a copy ofRemembrance of Things Past.
Fleetwood Mac: You have snorted cocaine off a copy of The Hobbit.
Blue Oyster Cult: You have snorted cocaine off a copy of Type 2 Diabetes for Dummies.
Mountain: You have snorted cocaine off a Blue Oyster Cult record.
Nazareth: You have snorted cocaine off a member of...
The Rise Of Curation Is Not About Broken Search -... →
“Good is the enemy of great”
– Jim Collins (via quote-book)
“Do you work for free? If you don’t please send me your cheapest price.”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Sketchnotes 2009 & 2010 Book - a set on Flickr →
Excuse the typos. I wrote this on my iPhone.
“If you stand for something and are committed to it, then you dilute it if you...”
– Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Rivendell SIGNAL VS. NOISE | 10 FEBRUARY, 2011 http://pulsene.ws/10QIE A while back, we posted about the no-nonsense, opinionated, shopping/educational content at Rivendell, a small specialty …
Speak to Translate: Google Translate Gets an... →
via RWW
BBC News: Last net addresses get handed out
The last five blocks of net addresses have been handed out to regional agencies that distribute them to ISPs < http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12367484 >
Seth's Blog: Protecting the work →
“Too often, artists and marketers and designers forget to protect their work from those that might try to improve it.”
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A moment in history from Egypt: Neville Hobson
A moment in history from Egypt: Neville Hobson
“The role social media has played in the unrest in Egypt that has occupied our TV screens for weeks is a subject of many opinions. What’s pretty clear if you pay attention to Facebook and Twitter is that communication channels like these have played a significant role in enabling people to connect with others, whatever their affiliation and...
Typography for Lawyers via BOING BOING | 4...
http://pulsene.ws/YUhC
“Butterick’s main point is that appearance matters for anyone making or reading a written argument. Most any written communication is an argument of some sort. Most legal communication is unnecessarily ugly. So, I would add, is most everyday business communication.”
EA Hopes Facebook’s 290 Million Gamers Can Save...
http://pulsene.ws/ZeKY
All Facebook:
“Electronic Arts Chief Executive Officer John Schappert said his company will work harder to claim a bigger share of Facebook’s gaming community; he tallies that market at 290 million users, slightly larger than the previously thought 250 million, yet still roughly proportionate to half the size of the entire social network.
If Schappert hadn’t...
Stowe Boyd on RSS (open) vs. Twitter (closed)
Avi Joseph (@Avinio) 11-02-06 4:49 AM Finally, a balanced voice in the RSS (open) vs. Twitter (closed) debate http://sto.ly/fBWucn /By @stoweboyd
I maintain that Twitter, Facebook, and other ‘closed’ systems are really something else: they are dense and complex social systems, more like modern cities than Web 1.0 publishing platforms. And, like cities, there is more going on, less being...
Anthony Volodkin is Fascinated: 4 Fine Sites For... →
fascinated:
Mixcloud lets you easily listen to mixes from existing radio stations, DJs as well as upload your own.
8tracks is handcrafted internet radio. It offers a simple way for people to share and discover music through an online mix, a short playlist containing at least 8 tracks.
Mugasha makes it really easy to listen to Electronic Music podcasts and long sets from world famous DJs....
How Meditation May Change the Brain - NYTimes.com →
Sketchnotes of Ryan’s talk at WebExpo 2010 SIGNAL VS. NOISE | 4 FEBRUARY, 2011 http://pulsene.ws/Yz45 Sketchnotes of Ryan’s talk at WebExpo 2010 from the book “Sketchnotes 2009 & 2010” by Eva-Lotta Lamm. …
