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Someone to look up to.
mistercray: The father of one of my students was murdered last week. I can’t imagine going through that at such a young age. When he came back to school, it was as if nothing had ever happened. I heard him mention the upcoming funeral but with no more emotion than any other weekend plan. I…
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Buycott : Finally an App That Reveals the True Story Behind the Brands You Buy
Buycott : Finally an App That Reveals the True Story Behind the Brands You Buy equalityandthecity: Here’s how it works. After scanning a barcode Buycott traces the brand to the parent company that owns it and then let’s you know if it’s in conflict with the campaigns you’ve joined or created. A campaign has a…
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Interface design critique in the New Yorker
By Bruce Sterling May 16, 2013 | 2:23 am | Categories: Uncategorized *It’s pretty good, too, but what is it doing in “The New Yorker”? “The New Yorker” was founded in 1925 as some kind of house organ for the Algonquin Round Table. *The clear implication of this rather interesting essay about Google is that the New Yorker itself…
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Exclamation: Your World, in Full Resolution
Exclamation: Your World, in Full Resolution yahoo: By Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! Photos tell the stories — stories we’re inspired to relive, share with our friends, or capture simply to express ourselves. Collecting these moments is a part of our everyday. Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery. Today, we’re thrilled…
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hyperallergic: Did you see the new Flickr homepage? Cool! They JUST rolled this out. Now, how will this integrate with Tumblr? Wait, doesn’t it look like Tumblr?
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And, as always, our ranks thin at the deeper technical levels. We get stalled at marketing and customer support, writing scripts for Web pages. Yet coding, looking into the algorithmic depths, getting close to the machine, is the driver of technology; and technology, in turn, is driving fundamental changes in personal, social and political life.…
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The second requirement is a high tolerance for failure. Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. In the words of the great John Backus, inventor of the Fortran programming language: “You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you…
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Bono and Hewson were right to go to Rogan, because for him, process is paramount (though their companies have since parted ways). For Rogan, working with only factories that treated workers fairly, cleaned wastewater properly, and achieved the best possible product was just a given. And he also took it for granted that the sophisticated…
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paperbits: For all that Yahoo! completely screwed up and deleted Geocities, my Flickr photo stream is still there and works as well as it did in 2005. Not a single URL has broken, not a single image is missing. I’ve read the stories of how upcoming.org, del.icio.us, and other companies were acquired, languished, and died.…
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Tumblr’s users aren’t afraid of Yahoo because of its turbulent management over the last ten years, or because of its current leader, or because of what happened to Flickr or Konfabulator or del.icio.us or any number of other beloved services that Yahoo has acquired and let wither on the vine. They’re afraid of Yahoo because…