Garrick van Buren – Page 28 – About time. And product. And being more deliberate.

Distracted

All I Can Do

Tuesday is Like Day

Motorized

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 Realboy automatically tweet every so many hours, and start friending several community members at a time after building up a small history of tweets.

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 the truth. While theoretically useful, in practice, I’m losing the ‘cooling off’ period that my desktop-based process required… Using my hyperkinetic real time system, I could shoot myself in the foot at warp speed.” – marginhound

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 bad decisions for a very long time.” – Dave Winer