andrewspittle
1528
RSS
Twin Towers jumpers that Americans will not talk about
"Many would rather believe that those who fell from the World Trade Centre were forced from their offices as saying they jumped connotes suicide; a few, however, see courage in their decision to take charge of the manner of their dying."
terrorism  NewYork  from instapaper
september 2011
The Saving of Ground Zero
Interesting piece on the development of the old World Trade Center site.
building  business  NewYork  from instapaper
september 2011
Is this the end for books?
"So, even if they now seem natural, the lengths and formats of books are but cultural accidents. If this all goes, there will be consequences for the shape, size and format of prose narrative. How far is up for debate."
reading  TheGuardian  books  ebooks  from instapaper
september 2011
Make things
"So, to hell with all that noise. It’s just a big mass of envy, chatter and FOMO. Let’s get excited and make things."
CaterinaFake  startups  from instapaper
september 2011
Designers vs Coding
Frank Chimero writes about the necessity of at least knowing basic markup languages.
code  design  FrankChimero  from instapaper
september 2011
Sane RSS usage
"RSS is best for following a large number of infrequently updated sites: sites that you’d never remember to check every day because they only post occasionally, and that your social-network friends won’t reliably find or link to."
MarcoArment  RSS  reading 
september 2011
9/11, in the mirror
"I don’t know why. It’s not that I want to forget. I can’t and won’t. It’s not that it’s too painful. It was more painful then, though I will say that all this 9/11 talk is giving me a renewed if slight sense of dread. It’s not even that I think media have been too exploitive. In fact, I’m shocked they haven’t been far more exploitive.

I guess it’s that life isn’t defined by a day, no matter how momentous."
JeffJarvis  BuzzMachine  terrorism  NewYorker 
september 2011
Why the Impossible Happens More Often
"Humanity is migrating towards its hive mind. Most of what “everybody knows” about us is based on the human individual. Collectively, connected humans will be capable of things we cannot imagine right now. These future phenomenon will rightly seem impossible. What’s coming is so unimaginable that the impossibility of wikipedia will recede into outright obviousness."
KevinKelly  future  from instapaper
september 2011
Re the US embassy cables
"People who earn their living as journalists should bend over backwards to be fair to people who play a journalistic role without being paid for it."
DaveWiner  WikiLeaks  journalism  ScriptingNews  from instapaper
september 2011
Let's Start a Learning Revolution
Skillshare raises a round of funding and sets its targets on the nation.
venturecapital  education  startups  Skillshare  from instapaper
september 2011
“Consuming Content”
Interesting perspective.
writing  iPad  ShawnBlanc  blogging  from instapaper
september 2011
How the NYT paywall is working
"The NYT treated its readers as mature and civilized adults, and outperformed internal expectations as a result. Meanwhile, the WSJ and FT are still treating their readers with mistrust, as though they’ll be robbed somehow if they ever let their guard down a little."
journalism  paywall  NYTimes  business  from instapaper
september 2011
Better (and more) Social Bonuses
"But what is clear to me is that prosocial incentives, either in the form of charitable donations or team expenditures, can be an effective means of encouraging more positive behavior for the individual, their teammate and for society."
work  DanAriely  management  motivation  from instapaper
september 2011
The UX of Learning
How to construct experiences to fit the learning process.
learning  education  AListApart  from instapaper
september 2011
The Post-Personal iPad
Really interesting take from Khoi Vinh about what happens when a device transcends the person who owns it.
KhoiVinh  Apple  iPad  design  from instapaper
september 2011
Was Aaron Swartz Stealing?
TheAwl  education  research  publishing  from instapaper
september 2011
The Mission to Get Osama Bin Laden
Fantastic feature story on the raid to get Osama bin Laden.
PresidentObama  Pakistan  terrorism  world  NewYorker  from instapaper
september 2011
How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education
"In essence, Khan doesn’t want to change the way institutions teach; he wants to change how people learn"
Wired  schools  education  from instapaper
september 2011
If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault
"When you engage with a community online in a constructive way, it can be one of the most meaningful experiences of your life."
AnilDash  community  writing  from instapaper
september 2011
Culture
"in the midst of all his innovations and ideas, perhaps the greatest “product” Steve Jobs has built isn’t a product at all — it’s a culture."
Apple  ShawnBlanc  culture  from instapaper
august 2011
Great customer service from the Mission Bicycle Company
Terrific story about going the extra mile in customer service.
support  customerservice  37signals  from instapaper
august 2011
Golden Grid System
Interesting folding grid system for rapid prototypes of responsive designs.
design  code 
august 2011
Startup Weekend pep talk: It ain’t the code
"Customers don’t patronize companies on the basis of the difficulty of the code or the unit test coverage percentage or whether you used Bodoni instead of Times New Roman on the home page. In fact I’ve made millions of dollars on companies with hideously ugly websites and buggy code. Those things are actually not the most important things. Real life is a startup contest too."
startups  code  business  from instapaper
august 2011
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?
"So it would be easy to think that the Whole Earthers are winning and the Epiphinators are losing. But this isn't a war as much as a trade dispute. Most people never chose a side; they just chose to participate. No one joined Facebook in the hope of destroying the publishing industry."
culture  Facebook  PaulFord  social 
august 2011
QuickLogin Plugin For WordPress
Cool login plugin for WordPress.
WordPress  DanielJalkut  software  plugins 
august 2011
The One Rule
Rands writes about the full screen and desktop transition changes in Lion.
Rands  work  Apple  design  from instapaper
august 2011
The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling
"Republicans will supposedly have an incentive to make concessions the next time around, because defense spending will be among the areas cut. But the G.O.P. has just demonstrated its willingness to risk financial collapse unless it gets everything its most extreme members want. Why expect it to be more reasonable in the next round?"
PresidentObama  NYTimes  debt  economy  finance  politics  from instapaper
august 2011
The three different kinds of context we're missing in the news system as it stands
Great explainer by Jay Rosen about context.
JayRosen  writing  journalism  from instapaper
august 2011
We Just Want to Read
"How many people are subscribers to The New Yorker iPad app that don’t actually read for whatever reason? If the app were easier to use and quicker to access, then you’d have users, not just subscribers."
ShawnBlanc  NYTimes  reading  design  from instapaper
august 2011
Working Remotely
Great article about the benefits and best practices of working remotely.
work  from instapaper
august 2011
Guts and Glory: A Review of the MacBook Air
However, as a nerd, that’s not the point. Buying something new that’s even the slightest bit slower than another available option makes you want to shake your fist in the air and shout, “Arrg!”
Apple  ShawnBlanc  reviews  from instapaper
august 2011
The Trouble with Genius
Interesting feature on Bobby Fischer and genius.
chess  BobbyFischer  from instapaper
august 2011
The Blogfather
"It’s very Portland to do sustainable things that are here for a long time. You can do sustainable things and not have to slash and burn and sell."
blogging  Metafilter  Portland  from instapaper
august 2011
How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History (How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History)
Absolutely fascinating story of international malware directed at a nuclear facility in Iran.
Iran  Wired  security  from instapaper
august 2011
Two Decades of the Web: A Utopia No Longer (Two Decades of the Web: A Utopia No Longer)
"Wikipedia is a painful reminder of what the web could have been had the early vision of the internet as a shared, communal space not been co-opted by big business."
Wikipedia  society  venturecapital  from instapaper
august 2011
A huge opportunity
Good thoughts on Mike Matas moving to Facebook.
TimVanDamme  design  Facebook  MikeMatas 
august 2011
Digital Interruptions
Interruptions happen because we allow them to.
BenBrooks  lifestyle 
august 2011
News Redux
Andy Rutledge takes on redesigning the New York Times.
design  NYTimes  from instapaper
july 2011
The Desktop Transition
Rands writes about the three layers of a Mac OS X desktop.
design  Apple  Rands  from instapaper
july 2011
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Will Confuse Your Users
"Your website is your product, and if even one person complains and says ‘This isn’t right!’ you need to stop and think about it. I’m not saying you have to change it, but I am saying you have to consider their point of view. Get out of your monkey house."
design  from instapaper
july 2011
4 key pieces of audience engagement missing from Andy Rutledge’s news redux
"News is about stories, and stories are about people. In Andy’s redux, aside from the “hero” image leading the page, the only people’s faces I can see are those of the journalists and columnists. This is a very 20th century view of the news, where the only people you heard from were those with the patronage of the owners of the presses."
design  NYTimes  journalism  from instapaper
july 2011
Redesigning and Re-Thinking the News
Solid response to Rutledge's NYT redesign.
design  NYTimes  from instapaper
july 2011
Just a myth
"The key word, I think, is spiritual. Mythological brands make a spiritual connection with the user, delivering something that we can't find on our own... or, at the very least, giving us a slate we can use to write our own spirituality on. People use a Dell. They are an Apple."
SethGodin  Apple  culture  advertising 
july 2011
Earth to Microsoft: Don’t sell Bing.
"Do that by making customers of users. Sell premium search (and other) services, and provide hand-holding support."
Microsoft  DocSearls  from instapaper
july 2011
Reading on the iPad
"Apps like Instapaper and Reeder offer more of a “reading environment” (like a library); Wired and The New Yorker are more like an amusement park with words. One isn’t better or worse than the other, but people who like to read a lot certainly don’t spend the majority of their reading time at a noisy amusement park."
ShawnBlanc  reading  iPad  design  software  from instapaper
july 2011
Machine Learning Fairy Dust
"There’s no substitute for good product design. You still have to make something people will want to use and find your way around technical stumbling blocks, not just fill in all the gaps with “ML will solve any difficulties we face”. Because it won’t."
journalism  code  software  from instapaper
july 2011
The damage already done by the debt ceiling debate
"When you build up large stocks of mistrust and ill will, nothing can happen for a very long time. But when something does happen, it’s much quicker and much worse than anybody could have anticipated."
finance  economy  debt  politics  from instapaper
july 2011
The Menace Within
Interesting interviews with participants of the Stanford prison study.
research  prison  society  from instapaper
july 2011
The End of Client Services
"Basically, to create anything meaningful in digital media, you need to think in terms of a product, not just a story."
KhoiVinh  design  from instapaper
july 2011
Pimp My Reader
Interesting thoughts on a feed reader for news types.
RSS  software  journalism  from instapaper
july 2011
Bored People Quit
Another solid essay from Rands on motivation, boredom, and why managers should keep coding.
Rands  work  management  from instapaper
july 2011
i’m not playing that game
minimalism  lifestyle  from instapaper
july 2011
The post-CMS CMS
Well put rationale behind the future of a news system.
journalism  software  from instapaper
july 2011
The unaugmented mind
Great post about memory from Jon Udell.
memory  JonUdell  thinking 
july 2011
How To Build An Audience On The Internet: The Kevin Rose School Vs. The Fred Wilson School
Tom Anderson of Myspace fame writes about different approaches to writing on the web.
blogging  social  KevinRose  TomAnderson  TechCrunch 
july 2011
Woods+
Brilliant essay from Paul Ford.
social  Facebook  MarkZuckerberg  NYTimes  PaulFord 
july 2011
Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net
"It's been 25 years since the first PC virus (Brain A) hit the net, and what was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage. Computer security expert Mikko Hyppönen tells us how we can stop these new viruses from threatening the internet as we know it."
crime  history  security  TED  video 
july 2011
FitBit + Google Spreadsheets = Awesome
Cool hack to bring Fitbit data into a spreadsheet.
FitBit  software  code 
july 2011
America's 'detainee 001' – the persecution of John Walker Lindh
Depressing but nonetheless important story told by John Walker Lindh's father. Powerful stuff.
Afghanistan  JohnWalkerLindh  politics  TheGuardian 
july 2011
Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic
"That’s the newspaper business, or at least it was until recently. The average US paper runs more soft than hard news, uses more third-party content than anything created by their own staff, and reaches more people who care about local teams than local zoning. Telling the publishers of those papers to create a digital product so extraordinary that readers will pay full freight is a tacit admission that they do not know how to make such a product today."
journalism  ClayShirky  business  advertising 
july 2011
Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy
Fantastic summary of the News of the World controversy.
journalism  politics  RupertMurdoch  NewsCorp  #notw 
july 2011
Density and Difference
"Make everything that CAN be alike as alike as possible. Let the differences between stuff jump out as accents. Because ultimately, people may come for the difference, but they stay for the stuff."
MuleDesign  design  Google+  Google  Twitter 
july 2011
Being is a Verb
"Think of the monumental unease of Yahoo! For all their repeated asking of the billion-dollar question: Do you Yahoo!?

Only crickets or derision in response. No one Yahoos, even without the awkward punctuation. The company never defined a significantly innovative action synonymous with their name. The original Yahoo! directory had tremendous value, but although it was useful, it was just an old familiar thing—a directory—soon to be eclipsed by all the new things you could do using the listed links."
Yahoo  software 
july 2011
Mona Lisa Remix by Graphic Nothing @ Some Prints
Really cool print of the Mona Lisa. Pretty reasonable prices for prints too.
art  history  design 
july 2011
Post-Artifact Books and Publishing
Brilliance, really well thought out piece.
ebooks  books  publishing  writing  CraigMod 
july 2011
Beyond the “smart city”
Incredibly thought-provoking and inspiring essay about our future data-rich cities.
cities  urban  data  UrbanScale 
july 2011
Books and Other Fetish Objects
"Some of the qualms about digital research reflect a feeling that anything obtained too easily loses its value. What we work for, we better appreciate. If an amateur can be beamed to the top of Mount Everest, will the view be as magnificent as for someone who has accomplished the climb? Maybe not, because magnificence is subjective. But it’s the same view."
NYTimes  reading  books  ebooks  research 
july 2011
10 Great Things I Gained in College (and Where Else I May Have Found Them)
"With the help of a few knowledgeable friends, family, mentors, and advisors, I’m confident that I could have replaced my college experience with self-directed learning."
education  schools  college  learning  from instapaper
july 2011
Prince Jefri: The Prince Who Blew Through Billions
Wealth, excess, and sneaky business dealings.
VanityFair  wealth  from instapaper
july 2011
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
Powerful story about life as an undocumented immigrant. Fantastically written.
NYTimes  immigration  from instapaper
july 2011
The Search for Cleopatra
Egypt  research  classics  from instapaper
july 2011
Crisis in higher education
"If demand drops, supply should drop to meet it. In fact, many departments are doing the opposite, the job market be damned. More important is maintaining the flow of labor to their domestic sweatshops, the pipeline of graduate students who staff discussion sections and teach introductory and service courses like freshman composition and first-year calculus."
college  education  schools  TheNation  from instapaper
july 2011
The Case Against the American Front Lawn
Lawns receive more pesticide use per acre and may account for a third of residential water use.
environment  housing  landscaping  from instapaper
july 2011
Is graphene a miracle material?
Interesting look into the future of materials.
graphene  materials  from instapaper
july 2011
Apps and the AppleTV
Fascinating observations about touch and the future of device interaction.
Apple  design  interaction  iPad  touch  from instapaper
july 2011
Oliver Reichenstein on Google+
Smart observations on Google+ as it relates to Facebook.
Google  Google+  software  Facebook  from instapaper
july 2011
Is Dropbox a privacy revolution?
What Dave Winer wants in a file sharing and storage app.
Dropbox  DaveWiner  ScriptingNews  software  privacy 
july 2011
Gurgaon, a tale of India's development
Interesting piece on the development in India and how it proceeds despite the government and public services.
NYTimes  India  world  cities  urban  from instapaper
july 2011
Business Blogging: Tweet For The Moment, Blog For The Ages
"And a week or so later, when you try to remember what you said at this party, that really terrific thing, you rack your brain, but can’t quite come up with it. That’s Twitter.

The blog, on the other hand, is slow, reliably reference-able, and findable. It’s like a speech, prepared in advance, with the text distributed. Some will hear the speech on the day it’s delivered, but others will be able to reference its text across the years."
writing  blogging  information  dataintegrity  RandyMurray 
july 2011
The Year of Wonders
Fascinating story about all that can go wrong with the launch of a novel.
writing  books  publishing 
july 2011
« earlier      later »
37Signals 43Folders Adobe advertising Afghanistan Africa AlexPayne AListApart Amazon AndrewNacin Android AnilDash Apple apps art baseball basketball BBC BenBrooks BenHorowitz blogging books BP brain BrentSimmons Buddhism business BuzzMachine CameronMoll CarnivalofJournalism CaterinaFake China ChrisBowler ChrisDixon ClayShirky code CodingHorror CodyBrown collaboration college Color communication community conferences consumption content copyright CraigMod crime CSS culture curation customerservice DanahBoyd DanAriely DanBenjamin DanConover DanielBachhuber DanielJalkut DaringFireball data dataintegrity DaveWiner debt DerekPowazek DerekSivers design desk disaster diy DocSearls Dropbox dvorak ebooks economy education Egypt email energy environment ESPN EvanWilliams Facebook finance food football FrankChimero FredWilson furniture gaming Gawker gender Germany GigaOM Gizmodo golf Google Google+ hackedu Haiti happiness HappyCog hardware health history housing ideas identity IncMagazine India information innovation inspiration Instapaper interview iPad iPhone Iraq Israel Japan JasonFried JasonSantaMaria JayRosen JeffAtwood JeffJarvis JoelJohnson JoelSpolsky JohnGruber JonathanStray JonUdell journalism JulianAssange JustinTadlock KevinKelly KhoiVinh Kindle knowledgemanagement KnowledgeSystems kommons KyleBaxter LaurenRabaino learning libraries lifestyle management MandyBrown MarcoArment MarkPesce MarkZuckerberg MarshallKirkpatrick MattMullenweg MaxVoltar meditation MerlinMann metadata Microsoft military minimalism mobile money movies music NBA NewYork NewYorker NickDenton NiemanLab NYTimes oil open opensource oreilly Pakistan Palm PaulFord PaulGraham photography Pinboard plugins politics Portland PresidentObama privacy productivity publishing Rands RandyMurray reading ReadWriteWeb research revolution RobinSloan RSS school schools science scienceblogs ScottBerkun ScriptingNews search security SeedMagazine SethGodin ShawnBlanc social society software SpencerFry sports startups stockmarket strategy support TeaParty TED terrorism TheAtlantic TheEconomist TheGuardian thinking ThomasFriedman tools travel trust Tumblr Tunisia Twitter typography UI UmairHaque urban UX VanityFair venturecapital Verizon video videogames war wealth webapps WikiLeaks Wikipedia Wired WordPress work world writing Yahoo

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: