Monthly Archives: May 2012
3 Surprises from my recent Pandora listening
I’ve been listening to more music via Pandora lately. To be accurate – I’ve been listening to a Less than Jake & Might Mighty Bosstones seeded, late-90s ska station. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones get better with age. I really dig Social Distortion much more than I remember Ska-punk covers of ska-punk tunes are delightfully meta …
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Off
“Perhaps one of the biggest advancements technology can make in our lives comes when we realize the power of simply turning it off for a while.” – James Shelley (ht patrickrhone) Personally, I keep my phone not in my pocket, but in my bag with the rest of my connectivity gadgets. When it’s charging on …
Flash Mob / Day Job
Everything Was Breakin’
Neal Conan: “You had solar panels (on your sailboat) for electricity.” Matt Rutherford: “I did, but they broke.” Neal: “They broke?” Matt: “One by one.” Neal: “I think you had a Kindle for reading books.” Matt: “I did. It broke in a storm.” If there’s a better betrayal of the weakness of our modern, connected, …
CD-ROMs Part 2
“And Technology Review? We sold 353 subscriptions through the iPad. We never discovered how to avoid the necessity of designing both landscape and portrait versions of the magazine for the app. We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development. We fought amongst ourselves, and people left the company. There was untold expense of spirit. I hated …
Really Simple Sensationalism
“I strongly believe the contemporary fetish of liking and sharing cheapens the way we consume our information. Don’t get me wrong, I do see value in community driven content, but there’s also a lot of dirt and sensationalism. Some days it feels like I’m reading the front page of a cheap tabloid.” – Jef Claes
How Do I Sign
You Should Walk a Mile
Leave-mail
“We found that when you remove email from workers’ lives, they multitask less and experience less stress” – Gloria Marks