June 2008
The Five Easy Pieces of Marketing →
How to organize the room →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29) →
Justice
CSS
Biffy Clyro
Klaxons
The Ting Tings
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“It always seems impossible until its done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Even as we celebrate, let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete - our work is for freedom for all.” - Nelson Mandela celebrate his 90th birthday | BBC News
(via kiyo)
How to nap →
“Using surveys and focus groups to design your product is a great way to produce...”
– Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans
In the Midnight Hour →
sarahisrad:
I’ve really got to stop playing all day and just beginning work at midnight.
I can’t help it though: it’s too pretty outside in the day not to be out there enjoying it, and I’m more creative in the middle of the night anyway. It’s going to be another night of designing until dawn.
Same here, which is why I’m still awake at 5.50am, after sunrise, working away. It’s only...
The danger of stories →
“It’s not curators, it’s not critics, it’s not the public,...”
– David Galenson
“what matters is not experience per se but “effortful study,” which...”
– The Ultimate Code Kata
WatchHappiness as Your Business Model
“Students from elite schools expect success, and expect it now. They have, by...”
– The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
Rethinking the conference →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
Muse
MGMT
Stereophonics
Feeder
Sigur Rós
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Why We Have No Clue How Much Stuff Should Cost →
Minimalism →
“I love to be surrounded by perfectionists, and part of the problem with...”
– (via nytimes, sharingtime)
Legal Tender →
“When you force people through mild social anxiety, they thank you for it later”
– Simple conference idea
“I mention this not because it’s any sort of earth-shattering revelation, but...”
– Minimal
“Adam used Porter’s 5 Forces to identity the dominant force in the market (major...”
– What’s the BizIdea?
Deep Profiling jQuery Apps →
Watchwaves, with zefrank
Silent World by Michael Kenna →
“While young people of previous generations were eager to take on adult roles and...”
– Emerging Adulthood
“It is a rule of Web development that if you want a vital community, it has to...”
– The Media Equation - Slumber Parties Go Digital
“so says caterina fake, whom i really like. talk amongst yourself but i call bullshit.” -soxiam
MuxFind: Search for Muxtapes →
“Incompetent people grossly overestimate their own competence”
– Done, and Gets Things Smart
Watchvia everythingontheinternetistrue:
Tumblr. - The Documentary
I follow 105 tumblrs and 92 of those are girls I don’t know who I think are pretty.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15) →
Sigur Rós
Muse
MGMT
The Holloways
Arcticology
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Nomadic programming →
Virgin Media cable says that the record industry... →
Virgin seem to increasingly hate their customers with Phorm, rate limiting and dissmissing net neutrality. This is my last month with Virgin Media and will never go back to being a customer of either them or any other Virgin company where possible.
“perpetuating some bizarre stereotype of expert computer users as young,...”
– Real Men Don’t Type
“Morning people get sleepy just when all the fun begins”
– Can a night owl become a morning person?
“All the Facebook widgetmaker parties I’ve been avoiding will probably soon...”
– iPhone application startups to trigger tsunami of free booze at launch parties