The Hyperlink Grows Up: The Times Releases New Linking Features Here’s how it works. In the story above, the base URL is: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/world/americas/01colombia.html If you wanted to link to a specific paragraph, you’d simply add a “#” and the number of the paragraph, e.g.: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/world/americas/01colombia.html#p2 You can even go a step deeper and skip to …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Full of Sound and Fury
“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” – Wallace Stanley Sayre “This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so. Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a …
Underscore
“…publishing is the art of determining what is worth paying attention to, by whom.” – John Battelle
#sad
“I guess it’s about respect. It’s about a relationship I had, and I think many of us had, with Twitter, that doesn’t seem to be there anymore. And that’s frustrating, and disappointing. But mostly I guess it’s just sad.” – Ed Finkler
Worse than It Appears
“It’s like spammers took over technology, like the pet food guys did in 1999. Everyone has a scam. This year the scam is to grab all the user’s data and resell it.” – Dave Winer “My point is that your privacy has an economic value. Or it could, if such a market was created. Today …
Introducing: The Daily Reality Planner
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nov 14, 1957 If you’re like me, you’ve continually struggled with answering 1 question: “Where did today go?” To Do lists are helpful in identifying what should be done. Assigning those To Do items a date and time on the calendar declares when …
Reminder, You Might Be Trying Too Hard
I love this play. It’s simple, counter-intuitive, executed with nonchalants. thanks Mark J. Perry
Arise, Mechanical Turks, Arise
Years ago, I heard a story of an American barred from crossing into Canada because the Canadian customs agent interpreted the American’s intentions not as recreation, but as work. The American didn’t see it that way, nor did he have employment papers, and he reversed course. “Q: Is there going to be legislation or IRB …
Writing out the Problem
8pen is another attempt at bringing touch-typing to mobile devices If you listened real close – in the video – you hear the narrator mention ‘handwriting’. That’s both why 8pens approach is pointed in the right direction and why this version of it misses the mark. Selecting individual characters is terribly tedious. Seriously, these things …
Quirk Persists
A couple of quotes from Tim Quirk’s 10 year old interview the The Onion’s AVClub that came to mind earlier this week. I was mis-remembering them, posting them here so that happens less. “We were always trying to put out slick rock records. Even the crappily recorded stuff on Green Eggs And Crack was our …