October 2011
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“you don’t have to go about the traditional way of marketing and advertising…...”
– Will.i.am: What Does ‘Communiting’ Mean??? - Advertising Age (via tedr)
Continuations: Help Stop the Internet Censorship... →
continuations:
There is an awful bill making its way around congress. I first wrote about this when it was called COICA and was thankfully defeated due to opposition from Senator Ron Wyden. Then it returned as the PROTECT IP act or PIPA. Now we have the house version which is in part called, I kid you not, the E-PARASITE act(scroll to page 3 and you will find the name for Title I).
I...
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“We are so eager to conform to the collective, to fit our little lives into the...”
– How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect | Wired Science | Wired.com (via infoneer-pulse)
This is the kinda data that will change the way we interact with each other the world.
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“Conflating amateurism with a specific anthropological tidbit is a disservice to...”
– Chris Muscarella
“The confidence we experience as we make a judgment is not a reasoned evaluation...”
– Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence - NYTimes.com (via femmebot)
The one thing I miss about working full-time...
jesseddy:
Is spending all day on Tumblr, forgetting I had a job I didn’t like and posting awesome content. Since I started working for myself I have much less time to spend on Tumblr. Proof? The last month at my last job I had 104 posts on Tumblr, last month I had 17. It’s cool though, I’m doing shit.
ROCK!
“So each mile you live from work steals $795 per year from you in commuting...”
– The True Cost of Commuting | Mr. Money Mustache
via @lessin
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Seth's Blog: Eliminating the impulse to stall →
My friend and colleague Amit Gupta is fighting off leukemia and the twittersphere is lighting up with expressions of support.
But the support he really needs is for you to get a Q-tip, stick it in your cheek and mail it back. The process is free and you can sign up right here.
The extraordinary thing about marketing is that a million people might see something or hear something or be sold...
“Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.”
– Steve Jobs. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
My life is different because I heard this sentence. (via ronen-v)
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Readable →
The new tech blog hotness = The Wire Cutter
But damn is it U G L Y
Luckily Matt introduced me to the Readable bookmark which turns any site into a pleasure to read.
mattlehrer:
If you use Readability and hate the way it changes URLs (which I find unacceptable) or that it now requires two clicks instead of one with the old bookmarklet, use this. If you’ve never used Readability, use this.
It...
Instapaper Zero: MSG's DAY 1 →
Read 16 articles! + Archived 9 I already read but never archived.
Added 9 (Damn you Think Quarterly).
1388 articles left
I listed the articles I read today along with notes & highlights over at instapaperzero
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