“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 …
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Underscore
“…publishing is the art of determining what is worth paying attention to, by whom.” – John Battelle
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 …
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 …
Mac App Store is a Proper OS X Package Manager?
My Ubuntu machine and my Nokia N900 both have something of an ‘app store’ in them. If we call an app store – an application that connects to platform-specific software repositories to easily install software, notify me of updates, etc. Though, in the Un*x world, these things are called package managers or application managers. The …
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Progressive
“We are deeply in a situation in which the few are supporting the many: the bottom 50% of income earners paid only 2.7% of total income taxes in 2008, and 52 million taxpayers paid no income taxes at all” – Scott Grannis
I HAZ FAIL! – Oct 20, 2010 @ 7pm
Next Wednesday – Oct 20th @ 7pm – I’ll be giving a talk on failure to the Lean Startup Circle group. If you’re interested in how I define success and failure for the projects I so frequently talk about here join me. I’ll be discussing these projects; their opportunity, challenges, brief success, and their ultimate …
Cracked
“If your genius lies in some kind of creative field, then there’s a good chance you have actual mental illness to deal with” – By Elizabeth Benefiel, David Wong