February 2012
6 posts
“But libraries need to be recognized as institutions that have also supported...”
– “if libraries did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them” - Contemplative Computing
How to Approach a Responsive Design →
A very thorough and informative discussion of the responsive design process for The Boston Globe redesign.
“The connection in an online conversation may seem real and intimate, but you...”
– My Dinner With Clay Shirky, and What It Means to ‘Friend’ Someone - NYTimes.com
January 2012
5 posts
The Future of the Book Is the Stream - The... →
The Alot is Better Than You at Everything →
I just revisited this and, yep, still pretty darn funny!
“63 B.C. - Marcus Tullius who was Cicero’s slave started the tradition of...”
– A Brush With The Elegant Ampersand
The great cover up...
catalogliving:
Elaine wasn’t sure what Gary was reading, but she hoped for his sake it was the latest issue of How to Tell a Rug From a Blanket.
December 2011
3 posts
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
“The other day, I read a perceptive article, “In Defense of...”
– The end of social - O’Reilly Radar
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client...”
– The 11 Best Art and Design Books of 2011 | Brain Pickings
November 2011
7 posts
“What people often forget is that same war had a design dimension:...”
– The Jawbone UP Fails, But Teaches 3 Golden Rules For Experience Design | Co. Design
“There’s a balance between being passive and present that every highly...”
– The Jawbone UP Fails, But Teaches 3 Golden Rules For Experience Design | Co. Design
Image as interest: How the Pepper Spray Cop could...
It’s worth returning, for a moment, to the idea of trending topics algorithms, which reward discrete events over ongoing movements, favoring spikes over steadiness, effectively punishing trends that build, gradually, over time. (Which is to say: effectively punishing the notion of a “movement” itself.) This bias toward the spiky over the sticky is a defining feature, as well, of the daily...
The ARPANET Dialogues →
poptech:
In the period between 1975 and 1979, the Agency convened a rare series* of conversations between an eccentric cast of characters representing a wide range of perspectives within the contemporary social, political and cultural milieu. The ARPANET Dialogues is a serial document which archives these conversations. Even more unusual perhaps was the specific circumstances of the...
October 2011
3 posts
An excerpt from Sam Harris’s post on the future of publishing.
If your book is 600 pages long, you are demanding more of my time than I feel free to give. And if I could accomplish the same change in my view of the world by reading a 60-page version of your argument, why didn’t you just publish a book this length instead?
The honest answer to this last question should disappoint everyone:...
September 2011
12 posts
“The New York Times has lived through two grave crises. One reporter, Jayson...”
– Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times – review | Film | The Guardian
The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense... →
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“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via plsj)
“What I find curious about her work is the way it augments reality before people...”
– Near Future Laboratory on Janet Cardiff
The Road to Exurbia: Places: Design Observer →
“Isn’t there always a possible elephant lurking just at the edge of the frame?”
– Believing Is Seeing - By Errol Morris - Book Review - NYTimes.com
August 2011
31 posts
On identity and ubiquitous computing →
The Most Embarrassing Spelling Mistakes On... →
The Never-Ending Story | design mind →
Artist Jonathan Harris’s new digital platform aims to help people find a signal amid social media noise. He spoke to frog Content and Community Manager Kristina Loring about his innovative form of digital storytelling.
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The trend for years has been shorter, faster, more. This platform is reversed. It’s asking people to not follow that trend anymore and to move toward longer,...
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Park Slope In A Nutshell
neighborhoodr-parkslope:
This is pretty amazing
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Star Wars Comic of the Day →
drewvigal:
On the floor laughing I rolled.
The comment I like.
“In many ways, he said, his parents treated them like adults, a blurring of the...”
– Kevin Wilson, Author of ‘The Family Fang’ - NYTimes.com