January 2011
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Tweetdeck's Deck.ly: Not Quite Liquid Email
I recently wrote a post called Liquid Email, in which I made the case for a new paradigm of email, one subordinate to streaming media like Twitter:
Imagine a liquid model of email, based on Twitter being my preferred context for communication:
I receive email in Gmail.
A new Twitter client (or a new version of Twitter) — let’s call it Liquidate — captures all my incoming...
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Robert Scoble’s Severed Head, Truthiness, and the... →
After using Quora for several months and seeing the myriad ways to game the system to get more upvotes, I’ve also seen a dozen ways to reduce the amount of gaming that is going on. Given the intelligence of the quora staff, I assume they probably have two dozen more on the table, but they are not being implemented. I doubt they’re even being tested.
Why?
Because more upvotes means more...
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How Will The MacBook Air Change The MacBook Pro? →
parislemon:
Agree with much of this. The new MacBook Air is the MacBook Pro’s worst enemy. When I got the new 13” MBA, I stopped using my 15” MBP completely. And it was a top-of-the-line i7 decked out with RAM and an SSD. In fact, I just sold it.
Apple will need to fundamentally alter the MBP line.
I would imagine the standard MacBook or the 13” MBP will be killed off. Maybe even both.
The...
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Exclusive: Ex-Gawker Guy Snyder to Head Atlantic... →
soupsoup:
via Nick Summers at The New York Observer
Former Gawker editor-in-chief Gabriel Snyder has been tapped to run The Atlantic Wire and build up a news aggregation staff in New York, as the 154-year-old magazine continues to carve out a home on the web.
“There’s been no doubt that the Atlantic has been very nimbly handling the delicate maneuver of bringing a 150-year-old plus brand into...
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“I implore you: tame your ego, chill out with the fluffed-up rambles, the...”
– - Dan Kaplan, Sorry, Scoble, Quora is not your playground
Kaplan explains why Quora is not Friendfeed, without saying Friendfeed.
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The New Constitution
cloudhead:
Stowe Boyd is imagining a New Constitution that would transcend borders and unite the internet generation around the world … an Eighth Continent that we could all defect to.
But the truth is, the internet that I want to be a citizen of doesn’t exist yet. Not in places like Egypt where a flick of a switch can disconnect everyone; not in the remote corners of Africa where the...
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My California Dream: The California Territory
[This is a response to the California Dreams project at the Institute for the Future.
How it works
California Dreams asks you to imagine the future. Will California keep growing, start conserving, reinvent itself, or collapse? Put yourself in the future of one of these paths. Show us what a day in your life looks like and how you are living in this new world.
Why do we care? Because California...
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Pluralistic Ignorance: Blaming The Messenger
Some new research on the wonderfully named ‘pluralistic ignorance’ shows that people underestimate other’s negative emotions. In a perverse aspect of the ‘grass is always greener’ phenomenon, we seem to think that others are happier than we are.
However, the author of a Slate article that starts with this research takes a few giant steps, following on the thesis of...
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Ten Things You're Not Allowed to Say at Davos -... →
Perhaps, to time’s unblinking eye, this great crisis isn’t really about financial debt — perhaps that’s just a representation of a deeper set of truths. Perhaps it’s really about the deeper debts we owe to one another, and how failing to honor them has led us to a deeper bankruptcy: an insolvency of character, spirit, ethic, purpose, and above all, wisdom. Hence, perhaps* the idea of a “World...
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace -... →
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself...
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Why I Am Not Going To SxSW
I have attended SxSW Interactive a few times, and I’ve found it to be a high-tech Woodstock, without the mud or the music. Just lots of people milling around, and queued up for the parties, the after parties, and the after-after parties.
The selection approach for the talks is all about popularity, and there is no obvious thematic control, and no MC, so the sessions are very uneven. Some can be...
“Carr, who reports on the media and contributes to the Times‘ Media Decoder blog,...”
– Jason Silverman (via soupsoup)
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“MySpace is a not a social network anymore. It is now a social entertainment...”
– Mike Jones, CEO of MySpace, cited by Emma Barnett in MySpace surrenders to Facebook in battle of social networks
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Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed. -... →
Roger Ebert got an email from sound designer extraordinaire, Walter Murch, explaining why 3D won’t work with our minds:
Hello Roger,
I read your review of “Green Hornet” and though I haven’t seen the film, I agree with your comments about 3D.
The 3D image is dark, as you mentioned (about a camera stop darker) and small. Somehow the glasses “gather in” the...
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Phase Shift
gracemcdunnough:
Liquid modernity is Bauman’s term for the present condition of the world as contrasted with the “solid” modernity that preceded it. According to Bauman, the passage from “solid” to “liquid” modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and...
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Liquid Email
We are rapidly detouring into the web of flow, leaving the static web of pages behind. (Or more accurately, covering the web of pages with a layer of liquid media, so that we will increasingly not notice the static URLs down there, except as IDs that can be used to fetch content, and yank it into the liquid context of the web of flow.)
Paradoxically, the places with the strongest flow will seem...
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Apple to fight Facebook with iOS 5 and Media... →
Ping was Apple’s first attempt at the social networking but it pales in comparison to what they have coming. Hidden deep in the iOS 4.3 file system is a new folder titled “Media Stream.” Within that folder is some information about “Photo Streaming.” From the looks of different alerts and plists, it appears that Apple will let iPhone users set up “Photo Streams” that friends could “subscribe”...
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The Annual Independent Worker Survey
Althea Erickson, Freelancers Union
What do freelancers in L.A., NYC, and Topeka have in common? That’s what Freelancers Union wants to find out! While independent workers constitute a considerable segment of the workforce, there is limited information about these workers. Freelancers Union aims to fill that knowledge gap through their Annual Independent Worker Survey. They use the survey...
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Watch
Next Conference 10
It’s his third time at next (check out number one, and two). None of that has been blurred but has been kept in mind very well. This time Stowe Boyd talks about the social media blur. He focuses on blogs, networks and streams, their continuous rise and how they tend to be blurred nowadays. He clarifies why the open stream model is becoming the dominant social motive of...
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On a Phone, Interfering With Flight Safety -... →
Before deciding whether to allow passengers to use phones before takeoff, several airlines conducted ground tests to see if cellphones would interfere with systems. At American Airlines, people dialed cellphones from out-of-service planes parked at various airports. “They found no interaction with the aircraft instruments on any aircraft type,” said Tim Smith, a spokesman for American. As a...
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On a Phone, Interfering With Flight Safety -... →
Before deciding whether to allow passengers to use phones before takeoff, several airlines conducted ground tests to see if cellphones would interfere with systems. At American Airlines, people dialed cellphones from out-of-service planes parked at various airports. “They found no interaction with the aircraft instruments on any aircraft type,” said Tim Smith, a spokesman for American. As a...
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“The internet creates a huge range of often-novel choices from which end-users...”
– David Ellis, cited by Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie in Respondents’ thoughts, The Future Of Social Relations
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“The internet creates a huge range of often-novel choices from which end-users...”
– David Ellis, cited by Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie in Respondents’ thoughts, The Future Of Social Relations
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“Internet connectivity maintains, expands, and enhances friendships: both strong...”
– Barry Wellman, cited by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, Respondents’ thoughts, The Future Of Social Relations
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Getting Serious Online: As Americans Gain... →
Internet users—veteran users especially—report that their use of email and the Web has changed the amount of time they spend watching TV, shopping in stores, and reading newspapers. One-quarter of all Internet users say that the Internet has decreased the time they spend watching television, with fully one-third (31%) of veterans saying this. Nearly one in five (18%) say Internet use has meant...
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Getting Serious Online: As Americans Gain... →
Internet users—veteran users especially—report that their use of email and the Web has changed the amount of time they spend watching TV, shopping in stores, and reading newspapers. One-quarter of all Internet users say that the Internet has decreased the time they spend watching television, with fully one-third (31%) of veterans saying this. Nearly one in five (18%) say Internet use has meant...
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“Internet connectivity maintains, expands, and enhances friendships: both strong...”
– Barry Wellman, cited by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, Respondents’ thoughts, The Future Of Social Relations
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“New definitions of ‘friendship’ and ‘privacy’ will emerge. Neo-tribalism will...”
– Stowe Boyd, cited by Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie, Respondents’ thoughts, The Future Of Social Relations
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How Americans view the internet’s impact on groups... →
When asked to assess the impact of the internet on the ability of social, civic, professional, religious or spiritual groups to engage in a number of activities, Americans express generally positive views. Nearly seven in ten (68%) believe that the internet has a “major impact” on the ability of groups to communicate with their members, and roughly six in ten feel that the internet has a “major...
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How Americans view the internet’s impact on groups... →
When asked to assess the impact of the internet on the ability of social, civic, professional, religious or spiritual groups to engage in a number of activities, Americans express generally positive views. Nearly seven in ten (68%) believe that the internet has a “major impact” on the ability of groups to communicate with their members, and roughly six in ten feel that the internet has a “major...
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Facebook Halts Phone & Address Sharing (For Now) →
After stepping in yet-another privacy/publicy pitfall, Facebook does an about face on sharing phones numbers and addresses to applications. They are tone deaf.
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Facebook Halts Phone & Address Sharing (For Now) →
After stepping in yet-another privacy/publicy pitfall, Facebook does an about face on sharing phones numbers and addresses to applications. They are tone deaf.
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Social Spirituality
[In memory of Martin Luther King, Jr]
The social web has a profound effect on everything it has touched, and its impacts have a tendency to work in similar ways on what seem to be very different spheres of human interaction, like media, politics, marketing, entertainment, and, yes, even religion.
Religion can be considered as having two parts: a gross over simplification, but perhaps a helpful...
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“There is information overload at every level of the military — from the general...”
– - Art Kramer, cited by Thom Shanker and Matt Richtel, In New Military, Data Overload Can Be Deadly
Interesting mention of mindfulness training, amid all the usual diatribe about multitasking ruining our minds.
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Journalism Online Examines Pay Model - Jeremy W... →
While newspapers around the world are anxiously asking themselves what would happen if they started charging readers to view articles online, a few answers have started to emerge.
Steven Brill’s Journalism Online experiment, which developed a system that allows newspapers to charge their most regular online visitors, has analyzed its preliminary data and found on average that advertising...
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Journalism Online Examines Pay Model - Jeremy W... →
While newspapers around the world are anxiously asking themselves what would happen if they started charging readers to view articles online, a few answers have started to emerge.
Steven Brill’s Journalism Online experiment, which developed a system that allows newspapers to charge their most regular online visitors, has analyzed its preliminary data and found on average that advertising...
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“We invented the web to happen to ourselves, not to create content.”
– Stowe Boyd
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What is Lean UX? - Janice Fraser →
Lean User Experience is a cross-functional, principle-driven process characterized by rituals that predispose teams to high-quality, high-velocity user experience outcomes.
I love the ‘rituals that predispose’!
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What is Lean UX? - Janice Fraser →
Lean User Experience is a cross-functional, principle-driven process characterized by rituals that predispose teams to high-quality, high-velocity user experience outcomes.
I love the ‘rituals that predispose’!
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Rules? Rules In A Knife Fight?
The almost amusing, almost sick-making spectacle of Mike Arrington throwing rocks at Joshua Topolsky has led to a strange post by Arrington, where he proposes rules for this sort of blogging, which he is calling a blog fight.
I will leave aside the blow-by-blow, who-struck-John quality of the interchange between Arrington and Engadget — other have done that.
But I do want to take a pass at...
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Rules? Rules In A Knife Fight?
The almost amusing, almost sick-making spectacle of Mike Arrington throwing rocks at Joshua Topolsky has led to a strange post by Arrington, where he proposes rules for this sort of blogging, which he is calling a blog fight.
I will leave aside the blow-by-blow, who-struck-John quality of the interchange between Arrington and Engadget — other have done that.
But I do want to take a pass at...
“Tomorrow is our permanent address.”
– Marshall McLuhan
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Erik's Thoughts, Building a Backlog in a Lean... →
Good concise piece on the integration of agile development with product strategy. I will have to look into Dean Leffingwell’s Big Picture Agile.
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Erik's Thoughts, Building a Backlog in a Lean... →
Good concise piece on the integration of agile development with product strategy. I will have to look into Dean Leffingwell’s Big Picture Agile.
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Why (The King Of Love Is Dead) - Nina Simone
Once upon this planet Earth, Lived a man of humble birth, Preaching love and freedom For his fellow man.
He was dreaming of the day Peace would come to Earth to stay, And he spread this message All across the land.
“Turn the other cheek,” he’d plead. “Love thy neighbor,” was his creed. Pain, humiliation, death he did not dread. With his bible at his side, From his foes he did not hide. It’s...
“It’s a social networking iPhone app with geolocation tagging for sharing mobile...”
– Bubble? What bubble? (via peterfeld)
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My Mother? Let Me Tell You About My Mother.
In Blade Runner, Leon Kowalski (played by Brion James) kills a ‘blade runner’ — an investigator searching for replicants, engineered humans — when asked ‘Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about… your mother.’
It turns out that Leon’s reaction could be more human than we might have thought.
Ed Yong, The dark...
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My Mother? Let Me Tell You About My Mother.
In Blade Runner, Leon Kowalski (played by Brion James) kills a ‘blade runner’ — an investigator searching for replicants, engineered humans — when asked ‘Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about… your mother.’
It turns out that Leon might have been more human than we might have thought.
Ed Yong, The dark side of...