About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Listening to the Joyeur podcast on Twitter, I made a note to look into fictional Twitter accounts. Then I see this post by Eric Rice: “By setting up a character-driven, fictional Twitter account, not only can I do a sultry little dance on the fine line of ARGs (alternate reality gaming), but that 140 character …
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Darrin points to the MIT SIMILE project. The lifeline/timeline visualization is similar to something I’ve been working on for the Genealogy Namespace for OPML project. While it’s cool to see a single person’s timeline, far more interesting to me in the intersection and relationship between multiple people (a marriage isn’t just one-sided, a birth has …
“Placemaking takes time and sometimes just plain dumb luck. No planner envisioned it all, first laying out the grid of streets and creating a zoning code for Dinkytown, then deciding precisely that an alley was to be converted to become the location of a breakfast counter and a legendary, delicious business.” – Sam Newberg A …
I’ve been fighting with one aspect of FeedSeeder for quite a while now. None of the approaches I’ve taken ended up solving the problem in a useful way – many of them just mucked it up worse. The imaginary screen in my head that tells me ‘what it should be’ was blank and it was …
Darrin’s raced bicycles for probably half the two decades+ I’ve known him. Inspired by Darrin’s USCF My Way post, I asked him to unpack the problems in local competitive bike racing that his points would solve. Listen to Darrin Homme on Improving Competitive Bicycle Racing [24 min].
Congrats to Cayenne Chris and Tekdiff in reaching the 100 episode milestone. One of the longest running and still the funniest comedy podcasts around. Back in First Crack #45 – Cayenne and I talked about Tekdiff.
“Success comes when you create something you want and need — and then find other people like you who agree they need and want it also.” – Rex Hammock
Dear Garrick Van Buren, Thank you for your interest in iTunes. After careful consideration of your application, we believe that the most efficient way to get your content up on iTunes in a timely fashion would be for you to deliver the content through one of the several digital service providers with whom we currently …
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“There are lots of topics I want to track but I don’t care if I see every item.” – Steve Rubel
“To listen to the music, a subscriber had merely to sit beside the telephone and hold the receiver to his ear.” – Popular Science, September 1933