July 2010
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April 2010
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52 Weeks of UX: User Experience Metrics →
Remember when hit counters were all the rage? I do. I remember putting them at the bottom of my web pages to see how many people were reading and then reloading them incessantly to watch the number go up. It was a newbie mistake to think that the number was reflecting others’ activity every…
March 2010
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The startup story of Carbonmade →
guillee:
It’s Dave’s company! And Bee makes a special appearance!
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Biographer Gerald Martin describes Gabriel García Márquez’s epiphany like...
– Writer’s Almanac
10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy →
Impending Stop & Shop Strike Gathers Steam and... →
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Happy Birthday! Ira Glass →
It’s the birthday of This American Life host Ira Glass, born in Baltimore (1959), who started working in radio, by his own account, “totally by accident.” He was 19, had just finished his freshman year of college, and was looking for a summer job with an ad agency or a TV station. He searched all over Baltimore and couldn’t find anything, but someone at a rock...
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We Have to Donate to Chile Too? Disaster Donation... →
Mobile Giving Strategy & more.
Why the internet will fail (from 1995) →
Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana
By Clifford Stoll | NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Feb 27, 1995
After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of...
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Red In the Face
dearoldlove:
Believe me, I was embarassed for me too.
February 2010
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Breathtaking, quirky, silly animated film made of logos. Brilliant and you must watch from start to finish.
Garage TV - De kortfilm der logo’s | video filmpjes | kortfilm, film, marketing
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Brooding Anti-Glory
dearoldlove:
He has loved me for half my life, wants to marry me, have kids, grow old together. He lights up my world. So why am I thinking about you in all your emotionally unavailable, brooding anti-glory?
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Low-Hanging UX Fruit, How a Well-Designed “Thank... →
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Online Fundraising & the Social Web: A Primer //... →
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Fire Department Shutting Down Hipster Trailer Park... →
Silly hipsters.
Many New Yorkers Hear Their Neighbors Having Sex... →
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Leon Crawl: I talked to David Karp and he said... →
So, I interviewed Tumblr founder David Karp last week for a short biographical item that will appear in an upcoming issue of Paper. We talked for like an hour, about him for some of the time but also a lot about Tumblr and how it works. Since most of that stuff is not going to be used in the Paper…
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Laid-Back Dog Celebrates His Birthday (PHOTO)
Laid-Back Dog Celebrates His Birthday (PHOTO)
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