Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Inbox as Identity
Some of my best friends
In order to get the attention of a Realboy’s community, we decided that the Realboy should tweet about the topics that are important to the community. In order to avoid having to worry about natural language parsing and sentence construction, we decided to simply duplicate tweets about these important topics. We decided to let each …
What if the function of a local newspaper was…
…to create and maintain digital production and distribution tools for an audience to inform itself? “Content production tools scale. Social media tools scale. Topical communities can scale (depending on the topic). Local news does not scale.” – Robert Niles
Yea.
“Whatever happened to accountability” – anonymous
Twitchy
“I wasn’t really GETTING anything from real time access to my performance data, except the stress of being aware of every time we had a temporary dip below the median performance (which, statistically, occurs uh… 50% of the time).” “Compounding my error, I actually now have the ability to ACT on this half-baked version of …
Deliberate
“When I was young the thought of going slow never occurred to me. But I learned that sometimes you have to slow down to go really fast. Seems paradoxical. But you can’t make good design decisions until you’re thoroughly familiar with a tool. And when you go too fast you have to live with the …
Links are the Killer App
“I may be wrong but it looks like Google’s fear of the mobile ecosystem – that apps cannot be crawled, indexed and searched for may be an overreaction. It is precisely because apps cannot be crawled, indexed and searched for, the mobile application ecosystem’s expansion will be limited – mobile app discovery will continue to …
“It’s all news to someone”
“So let’s call this the newsonomics of the shiny new wrapper, a movement that is allowing editors, publishers, broadcasters and marketers to reimagine what (and how) they can offer to long-time and would-be readers.” – Ken Doctor This is the space where my most interesting and most recent conversations are occurring. I see a huge …
Lignite
Thanks Jamie. This made my week.