September 2012
3 posts
Michelle Obama Makes Me Not Hate Politics For One... →
I’ve never seen a convention speech elevate the discourse before. Until now.
Mitt Romney Accidentally Confronts A Gay Veteran;... →
This might be the single greatest “oblivious Romney” moment of the entire campaign. Enjoy.
August 2012
2 posts
Julia Child Music Video Remix →
This music makes want to cook right now!
Why Rich People Don't Deserve Their Wealth.... →
This quote is an extremely powerful argument for fairness. And if that doesn’t excite you, I really dig it. And if that doesn’t excite you, the guy’s British, so you can read the whole thing using a little British accent in your head.
July 2012
1 post
Fred Wilson - Entrepreneurs Have Control When... →
January 2012
1 post
stretching the bow
Source: beautyineverything.com via Judy on Pinterest
May 2011
3 posts
hacking journalism with video
Center for Living Peace, Orange County - live... →
StreetEasy: 343 East 30th St. #20G - Condo... →
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
9 posts
Nicholas Felton » Every Reason to Panic →
data visualization by Nicholas Felton @feltron via @imjonas http://blog.imjonas.com/?p=1776
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August 2010
1 post
52 Weeks of UX: Time to Delight →
There are a lot of metrics out there we can use to gauge how positive a user experience is. We can look at “time on site” to see how long someone uses a web site. We can look at “return visits” to see how many times someone returns to a web site.
Here’s a simpler but just as interesting…
July 2010
2 posts
Continuations: Some Career Advice →
Following our recent recruiting effort to find Christina and Gary I have been spending a fair bit of time meeting with people we encountered in the process who wanted career advice. Here are some of the points I have found myself talking about repeatedly. First: many people think they want to be…
Sweet Baby James
January 2010
1 post
Properties of Man vs Machine in Social Software...
Machines are good at memory matching messaging Networked mining Indexing structure data Collaborative filtering NLP Computational linguistics Humans are good at Meaning Feeling Body sensory experience Opinion Emotion Creative Compelling Exchange Posted via web from Home plate | Comment »
December 2009
3 posts
Peaceable
Strings tug at my heart,
Vibrations seeth through my mind,
Posing indistinct questions,
Asking for nothing in particular.
It only wishes for some understanding,
Of this state of peace,
And what makes my mind
At this moment
So peacable?
Beautiful nevertheless
The world is nevertheless, beautiful
Unchanging in its cycles of seasons and generations,
Free of the blood-sworn conflicts,
Among strongheaded men.
Clean in its natural order of random
Birth, growth, and decay.
A cloudy Monday evening
Drapes these New England roads,
A moment majestic and self contented,
Clouds express Heaven’s unbounded serenity
The world is beautiful...
Accomplished
What does it mean
To be accomplished?
Better than the rest,
Done something worthwhile,
But who’s to judge?
I say:
Start a family,
Pander to the brats,
Make them a spitting image of yourself,
And laugh all the way to the bank,
As they squander your hard earned fortune,
In search of themselves.
For they don’t know any better,
Than to try to be accomplished!
November 2009
1 post
Social media in postmodernity
Mass media homogenizes. Social media democratizes, countering the culture industry’s profit maximizing tendencies, thereby unwinding the merchants of cool’s hegemonic grip on emerging and fleeting spectacles that perpetuate our postmodern economy’s natural propensity to fabricate somatic hyper-reality.
October 2009
2 posts
“Bukowski characteristically claimed that he had a secret, foolproof system for...”
– Reality Studio
September 2009
4 posts
'Flocking' behavior lands on social networking... →
U.S. City Populations: Where would you go?
whatjr:
I was keeping myself occupied this morning with researching the populations of U.S. cities. For some odd reason, I’ve always had a fascination for these type of statistics and what better place to start then the U.S. Census Bureau.
A future post will be on some specific ratios that I have in mind to find the real truth behind these populations numbers (i.e., male:female, ages 25:40,...
August 2009
7 posts
Untitled
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“Image is reality”
– Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
July 2009
10 posts
Google →
search engine for finding websites
1 tag
California Reaches Budget Deal, With Billions Cut... →
“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element:...”
– Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
4 tags
Capitalism without exploitation? →
“…there is no viable business in markets in which information and content are abundant (i.e. the news industry) unless you add the value of aggregation, create artificial scarcity, or give away those abundant assets (i.e. music recordings) that drive attention to assets that are truly scarce (the live concert experience).”
Reminds of...
Future of Capitalism according to Tim Leberecht
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/the-future-of-capitalism-in-five-minutes-meaning-driven-business-in-fast-times.html Posted via web from Home plate | Comment »
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