“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
This is the disparate collection of quotes, photos, links and videos that influence me, Dan W, and my work as a Web App & Mobile Developer in London, UK.
To learn that..
That’s not a good thing..
“If I’d have last.fm running for my whole life the top thing on there would be Forty Years On.”
— says russell davies - I’ve had last.fm running since I was 18. I’ve only listened to music since age 16. I’ve *almost* scrobbled for my whole life.
“I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I’m Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. ‘What about getting up after five hours sleep?’, ‘Oh that’s Morning Guy’s problem. That’s not my problem, I’m Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want.’ So you get up in the morning, you’re exhausted, groggy… ‘Ooh I hate that Night Guy!’ See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There’s nothing Morning Guy can do. The only Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy looses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore.”
— Jerry Seinfeld (via amyyy)
“I’m waiting for a call back from McDonald’s, the hamburger people. They’re trying to find me someone - anyone - within corporate headquarters who knows what the Internet is and can tell me why there are no Golden Arches on the information highway.
It’s true: there is no mcdonalds.com on the Internet. No burger_king.com either.”
— Wired, 1994
Woo! It’s Glastonbury time. No internet for 5 days, expecting my tumblarity to drop to zero.
They also ban ugly staff members, but that’s kind of legal in the UK
“The number of demonstrators arrested in Tehran on Saturday is estimated at 550 or so, which is less than those arrested by the NYPD for protesting Bush policies in 2004.”
— Informed Comment: Washington and the Iran Protests:
Would they be Allowed in the US?
“In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.”
— John Perry Barlow (via hunsonisgroovy)
Earlier this evening I read a bunch of online news from traditional newspapers.
Here’s what I read:
1. Start-ups stifled by noncompetes, Boston Globe
2. Investors Bet on Payments via Cellphone, NYT
3. Digg Brainstorming new communication tools for users, LA Times
4. iPhone Upgrades could hurt some applications, SFGate
One thing stuck out in every case and it really surprised me.
Not one of those stories linked out to an external site. Some of them had links to internal pages but nothing external.
I have noticed the NYT will include external links in their “blog” section (good example on this recent post about PayPal). Not sure i understand the difference.
Much has been written about the future of newspapers.
One thing is for sure: online news requires links.
Newspapers should certainly link to their sources and declare references. The guardian seems to not mind linking in inline, I’ve seen them link to rivals in the past. The BBC doesn’t link inline, but instead has an “external links” box with a disclaimer.
Broadcasting MQTT of the current on/off state of a TV based on a serial control cable plugged in. Awesome.
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