There’s a very simple reason newspapers and periodicals have such a low cover price (usually a few dollars, always less than $5) and are still chock to the gills with advertising. To charge the advertisers more. The logic goes like this…. The more a reader pays – the more the actually care about what’s being …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
“TL; DR World is broken. fix it.”
“TL; DR World is broken. fix it.” – DanielRibeiro
Now I Don’t Need To Write This Myself.
Generation X is beyond all that bullshit now. It quit smoking and doing coke a long time ago. It has blood pressure issues and is heavier than it would like to be. It might still take some ecstasy, if it knew where to get some. But probably not. Generation X has to be up really …
“…the web is more cared for than owned”
As a follow up to my “Tomorrow It’s Amazon & Mozilla & Samsung” – a little self-promotion from your friends at Mozilla Firefox.
Like but Verify
“Now the fascinating thing about the Internet is that it has in theory made it easy to take a verification step and check source information instead of cascading based on others’ actions….But the Internet has also made it that much easier to spread unverified information with a single click (reblog, retweet, like). The state of …
DiveIntoMark Opts-Out
“Gone The requested resource / is no longer available on this server and there is no forwarding address. Please remove all references to this resource.” – diveintomark.org 10 Oct 2011 Breaking inertia is hard work. It puts up a good fight, has the upper hand, and knows when you’re not serious. This is why the …
Walden Persists
…for all my talk about the liberating power of technology, I was beginning to see how imprisoned I was by it. – Sam Graham Felsen Thoreau hadn’t run away from life. He’d run toward it. Why can’t we leave our lives of quiet, digital desperation and do the same? – Susan Maushart, The Winter of …
For the Win?
Back at the beginning of my career, my then creative director decided the best way to bring in new business to our nascent agency was to win design awards. Not knowing any better – we all cheered and put our collective nose to the grindstone. Developing the concept, the interactions, the flow, all for a …
CHICKEN NO MORE
“LAST STEP IS SMASH CAGE, LIGHT BARN ON FIRE. DO THAT, YOU WIN.” – FAKE GRIMLOCK Related: Notice, the animal in the top cartoon is a chicken and the animals, stuck in the barn are pigs. Reminds me of a story about the difference between a contribution and a commitment.
FOSS Abhors a Vaccuum
You know, I could have sworn we already had a Linux-based, mobile-optimized operating system, with a HTML/Javascript-based application development environment. I guess purgatory isn’t the same as open source.