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David Graeber’s Debt: My First 5,000 Words
"It isn’t a history of human civilization or even a manifesto about economics, but rather a deconstruction of the terms through which we have learned to think about what human civilization, history, and society are and are supposed to be (which is to say, the language we use to make claims upon it)."
economics  review  book  debt  framing 
37 minutes ago
Social contagion: conflicting ideas
"Just as someone is more likely to contract the flu if lots of his friends have been infected, the theory was that the more friends someone has that have signed up to Facebook, the more likely he ought to be to join. Instead, the researchers found that the best predictor of whether someone would join Facebook was a subtly different factor: the number of distinct groups that an individual could link up with through the site."
viral  contagion  facebook  social  media  example 
yesterday
The Facebook Fallacy
"The subtext of the popular account of Facebook is that the network has a proprietary claim and special insight into social behavior. For enterprises and advertising agencies, it is therefore the bridge to new modes of human connection."
social  media  facebook  criticism 
yesterday
Three Myths about What Customers Want
"Most marketers think that the best way to hold onto customers is through 'engagement' — interacting as much as possible with them and building relationships. It turns out that that's rarely true."
marketing  user  journey  customer  myth  example  social  media 
3 days ago
How can we improve our odds in the content game?
"The key is to remember that content doesn’t spread itself. People choose to spread content because of what it means to them and the people they share it with."
content  sharing  example  social  media  spreading 
4 days ago
Anno NTK: get a fifteen-year-old tech newsletter delivered fresh each week
"NTK was once the greatest weekly tech newsletter in the universe -- snarky and funny and informative and just great."
ntk  history  email  newsletter  subscribe 
4 days ago
carpe diem, carpe noctem
Love this photograph.
cabin  trees  nature  perfect  photograph 
5 days ago
Base Camp X
"I may only be here for a short time, tomorrow venturing into the dark of oblivion. Take action today and leave your mark, it is Legacy that will never die."
axes  wishlist 
5 days ago
words to strategize by
"These are some strategic marketing principles that shape how I think. Most, if not all, of these principles are stolen. P.S. This is a list in progress, so do your part for the empire and jump in the comments."
advertising  digital  marketing  planning  strategy  example  list 
5 days ago
The Land Magazine
"An occasional magazine about land rights."
ecology  environment  food  land  politics  rights  enclosure 
5 days ago
50,000 new visitors to cartoonist's site results in an extra 23 books sold
"But alas, the 48,342 people that visited my site resulted in an additional 23 e-comics sales compared to the previous day. So about 0.048% of the extra visitors made a purchase."
comic  ebooks  visitors  conversions  data  example  traffic  sales 
9 days ago
Porsche 911 restored by Singer
"We first placed our hands on Singer's "reimagined Porsche 911" nearly three years ago when it made its world debut at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance."
porsche  singer  911  restoration 
9 days ago
Creating the Windows 8 user experience
'This blog often focuses on the bits and features and less on the “philosophy” or “context” of the product. Given the level of brand new innovations in Windows 8, however, we think it is worth putting Windows 8 in the context in which we approached the design.'
design  ui  ux  windows  user  experience  8  operating  system  usability 
9 days ago
Scientists Construct Model of the World Wide Web
“One of the main implications of our findings is that traffic and [the corresponding] fame is a prolonged phenomenon instead of a one-time fling, and recurs in a spasmodic fashion.”
behaviour  example  data  model  web  traffic  visits  visitors 
10 days ago
Neue Haas Grotesk
"The digital version of Helvetica that everyone knows and uses today is quite different from the typeface’s pre-digital design from 1957. Originally released as Neue Haas Grotesk, many of the features that made it a Modernist favorite have been lost in translation over the years from one typesetting technology to the next."
font  helvetica  typography  history  origin  story  interesting 
11 days ago
Yahoo's ten biggest mistakes
"For most companies, such a colossal blunder would represent a faux pas of the highest order, but that's not the case for Yahoo, it's just one more in a long line of mistakes."
yahoo  mistake  list  top  10 
14 days ago
Yahoo CEO laments not buying Google
"So Semel nevertheless asked to buy Google. They replied that they wanted $1 billion and didn't want to sell. Semel said he'd think about the price."
google  yahoo  buy  sell  search 
16 days ago
Ninite
"The Easiest, Fastest Way to Update or Install Software."
software  tool  windows  installer  utility 
17 days ago
Vegetarian Bean Burgers
"Consider the Bean Burger. It’s high in fiber. It’s seasoned to perfection.  And you can make the bean puree, as I do,  hours (or even days) in advance of serving."
recipe  burger  vegetarian  bean 
18 days ago
Internet Adoption
"According to our February 2012 survey, 80% of American adults use the internet. Click here to see a breakdown of internet users by demographics."
internet  adoption  data  statistics  america  usa  use  example  plateau  trend 
18 days ago
10 interesting digital stats we've seen this week
"Here's a round up of digital marketing stats we've seen this week."
statistics  data  week  internet  digital  list 
20 days ago
Digital marketing strategy framework
"Our advice is structured using the RACE planning system to help you focus on the marketing activities to review and improve. Click on a tactic to view our Quick Guides."
marketing  useful  guide 
20 days ago
The Atavist
"... publishes bestselling nonfiction stories that are longer than typical magazine articles but shorter than books for digital devices like the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, and Nook."
app  journalism  magazine  publishing  interesting  long  form 
20 days ago
The A/B Test Results Are In
"What follows are seven tweaks gaming site IGN made to its homepage. Employing the A/B testing methodology, IGN is constantly modifying its site looking for those small changes in wording, placement, even color and form that will yield huge increases in click-through rates."
design  development  a  b  testing  multivariate  example  data 
21 days ago
Gitspective: A Facebook-Style Timeline for Your Code
"What’s far more interesting than what your friends are doing? What your code is doing, of course. That’s why we’re enjoying Gitspective, developer Zach Moazeni’s Facebook-style timeline for your GitHub events."
timeline  facebook  view  idea 
21 days ago
The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That's Changing the Rules of Business
"And so Siroker decided he would introduce Obama’s campaign to a crucial technique—almost a governing ethos—that Google relies on in developing and refining its products. He showed them how to A/B test."
data  design  marketing  testing  web  a  b  multivariate  ethos 
21 days ago
Shaping Traditional Oral knowledge
Storing food outside the fridge.
art  design  food  storage  refrigerator  interesting 
21 days ago
Mixpanel Flow
"... is a traffic visualization like none you've ever seen. It's beautiful, it's fast, and it's incredibly intuitive. Instead of a line graph or a table, you get a diagram of the actual paths people take as they browse your site. Follow your users every step of the way - from the homepage, through signup, and each page they hit as they use your product."
analytics  tool  data  web  flow  chart 
21 days ago
How to survive the transition to digital direct response
"The Web and social media are built for direct response and that's where we're heading as an industry. In fact direct response is where the ecommerce action has been since day one. Witness the multi-billion dollar affiliate marketing industry, Google Adwords."
direct  response  marketing  example  social  media 
23 days ago
Nick Denton Goes Soul-Searching in Gawker Comments
"The rabbit hole of radical blogging transparency goes much deeper, and at the bottom, half of Gawker Media is sitting around a campfire examining one another's navels."
gawker  comments  navel  gazing  example  writer  blogger  blog 
24 days ago
Transport trends: Lonesome highway
"The broad perception is that the country’s transport networks are creaking under the strain of so many people. Yet, oddly, people are travelling less."
transport  trend  data  analysis  statistic  road  travel  car 
24 days ago
The frequent fliers who flew too much
"Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. It was almost like owning a fleet of private jets."
business  flight  travel  deal  airline  promotion  ticket 
24 days ago
Analytics Reveal 13 New Basketball Positions
"He used the company’s software to crunch a data set of last season’s stats for 452 NBA players. He discovered new ways to group players based on performance. After reading his map, Alagappan came up with 13 new positions based on the three typical roles of guard, forward and center."
analytics  data  basketball  pattern 
25 days ago
“Electric like Dick Hyman”: 170 Beastie Boys references explained
culture  history  music  artist  reference  explanation  beastie  boys 
27 days ago
13 Recipes for a Gourmet Vegetarian Cinco de Mayo
recipes  vegetarian  food  cooking 
27 days ago
Steak Digital: how not to do SEO
Ouch.
seo  how  to  example  blog  outreach  communication 
27 days ago
Snugpak Poncho
"Designed to be worn over personal equipment and backpack. Generously cut to allow use as an emergency bivvi. Adjustable hood and thumb loops. Velcro chest map pocket with storm fold. 100% waterproof."
poncho  waterproof  clothing  outerwear 
28 days ago
I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here's How
"Lifehacker reader Gabriel Wyner was tasked with learning four languages in the past few years for his career as an opera singer, and in the process landed on "a pretty damn good method for language learning that you can do in limited amounts of spare time."
education  language  learning  lifehacker 
29 days ago
Shut Up, Little Man: How Things Went Viral Before the Internet
"Memes and Pop culture virality did not start with the internet. Long before that, underground sensations spread amongst fanboys who poured mass amounts of effort into staying up on mailing lists and trading groups to get their fix of audio and video clips."
web  viral  internet  history  example  social  pop  culture 
29 days ago
i gigi - Portfolio
"Here is a selection from i gigi's portfolio - from interiors to consultation, upholstery to soft furnishings, home staging to complete house projects. We offer of a personal service with either Alex or Zoe."
interior  design  portfolio  chaise  longue  furniture  photos  ideas  shop  hove 
4 weeks ago
How To Build A Sweet And Simple CFL Strip Light
"The following tutorial shows how to build a powerful “LightStrip” using CFLs. As seen in the picture below, the strip has 10 outlets in which I plugged 10 CFL bulbs."
light  strip  diy  how  to  tutorial  illumination 
4 weeks ago
CodeLesson
"... provides hands-on, practical, online instruction. Our instructors are real people with real-world experience."
development  education  learning  online  programming 
4 weeks ago
Emotiva Professional, LLC
"The airmotiv 5 delivers the realism that a pro studio needs, but it's also a true audiophile monitor, perfect for upgrading dedicated audio setups or home cinemas. In the studio, it delivers ample clean bass for close listening, or even for an entire room at moderate listening levels, without a sub-woofer."
speakers  powered  monitor 
4 weeks ago
Interview: John Robb
"I personally believe that nation-states are in the process of becoming hollow shells of what they once were. Global systems are hollowing them out, reducing their ability to control events or their finances. Most states are going to end up being mere conduits for extracting wealth to send to the global financial system (think Greece, Ireland, and soon Spain)."
interview  drone  resilient  communities  ideas 
4 weeks ago
ESEE Homepage
"ESEE Knives Ltd is the proud official UK distributor of ESEE Knives’ range of products. ESEE Knives offers a large range of outdoor and survival tools and has a great deal of new offers for 2011."
knife  survival  distributor  uk 
4 weeks ago
Bogota “Titan – Mini” Entry Toolset
"Bogota Rakes feature an ingenious design that sets them apart in terms of ease of use and function. The design features 3 small mountain peak shaped bumps that are spaced in such a way that they can disrupt all 5 tumblers in a typical lock with very little movement."
review  lockpick  useful  tool 
4 weeks ago
How To Kill That Awful Meebo Bar Forever (Updated)
"Have you noticed Meebo, that annoying bar on the bottom of some websites like Boston.com's Big Picture, Men's Fitness, and TVGuide.com? Of course you have. It spits up ads and nags you to share stuff on Facebook while you're just trying to read. It's a website add-on increasingly used by publishers who hate their readers."
gizmodo  meebo  social  example  sharing 
5 weeks ago
Why Agencies Are Going The Way Of The Dodo
"I’ve been meaning to write about the broken agency model for a long time, and Jeremiah Owyang’s post about how social media agencies are increasingly turning to advertising gave me the excuse I needed. Caveat: Owyang is an analyst; I am a former two-time agency owner and get my information from my gut."
agency  model 
5 weeks ago
Nick Denton wants to turn the online media world on its head
"What person who actually has a job and a reputation… would give a f*** about getting some little badge like they’re in high school? It’s patronizing."
comments  denton  gawker  nick  social 
5 weeks ago
Avería – The Average Font
"I am not a type designer. This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer."
design  font  typeface  typography  experiment  interesting 
5 weeks ago
FanlessTech: NOFAN CR-95C COPPER
fan  silent  cooler  cpu  processor  copper 
5 weeks ago
Kiwi Knives
knife  kitchen  utensil  kiwi  thailand  to  buy 
5 weeks ago
Just how big are porn sites?
"While it’s difficult domain to penetrate — hard numbers are few and far between — we know for a fact that porn sites are some of the most trafficked parts of the internet. According to Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner, which tracks users across the web with a cookie, dozens of adult destinations populate the top 500 websites. Xvideos, the largest porn site on the web with 4.4 billion page views per month, is three times the size of CNN or ESPN, and twice the size of Reddit."
analysis  data  size  example  internet  web  scale  attention 
5 weeks ago
Facebook’s Achilles’ Heel
"Facebook isn’t growing as fast as it used to. The law of big numbers has kicked in. From Compete data, we can see that pageviews are down 54 percent at 48 billion, from a high of 100 billion pageviews in August 2010. Average stay is down 35 percent at 17 minutes from a high of 26 minutes in January 2011. Visits per person is down 34 percent at 20 per month from a high of 29 per month in January 2011. And pages per visit is off 60 percent at 15 pages from a high of 35 in February 2010."
facebook  data  statistics  example  social  media  network  platform  usage 
5 weeks ago
Time and taste
"People who naturally recognize tasteful, well-designed products are a small subset of the population. But people who can create them are a much smaller subset."
apple  mac  design  business  philosophy 
5 weeks ago
LED Lenser 8407 P7 Torch
torch  light  useful 
6 weeks ago
The Autofarm 911
"Using our 37+ years of knowledge and experience we take a sound 'modern' (galvanised) 911 from the last production years of the original 911 design, with its later technology and in particular its improved corrosion protection, and onto this solid base we hand build a totally reconstituted and 'as near new as practical' 911, utilising the classic body style of the original and evocative early 911's."
porsche  911 
6 weeks ago
Twisted Performance
"Power, speed, durability and, above all, style. Twisted takes the most distinctive vehicles in the world and transforms them into machines that pull, in every sense of the word. With many years experience of tuning and styling Land Rovers, Twisted has the expertise, ability and commitment to ensure that yours performs, looks and feels far better than you ever thought possible. Drive the improbable."
land  rover  defender 
6 weeks ago
PS AutoArt
Retro-look 911s.
porsche  911 
6 weeks ago
Greetings, Today's The Day All Starred Commenters Will Die
"Each comment and thread is judged on its own merits. Your previous record does still count. But we recognize that some of the most informative contributions come from the subjects of articles, other first-time commenters, and tipsters whose anonymity would be compromised by any public history."
gawker  comments  example  social  media 
6 weeks ago
Das Keyboard: The mechanical keyboard that clicks
"Whether you’re looking for speed, precision, comfort or just the pleasing sound of world domination at your fingertips, this is the keyboard for you. Its high performance, mechanical key switch lets you know immediately that you’ve hit your mark, while the addictive crunch sound it gives you spurs you on to greater heights of genius."
keyboard  mechanical  peripheral 
6 weeks ago
Lucidchart
"We have rethought and redesigned the entire diagramming process to make it as easy as possible. Draw flow charts, wireframes, mind maps, org charts, UML diagrams, and more with just a few clicks."
charts  collaboration  diagram  flowchart  tool  useful 
6 weeks ago
DisplayFusion
"DisplayFusion will make your multi-monitor life much easier. With powerful features like Multi-Monitor Taskbars, TitleBar Buttons and fully customizable HotKeys, DisplayFusion will make managing your multiple monitors easy. Take a look at some of the features below to learn how DisplayFusion can help you!"
windows  multi  monitor  display 
7 weeks ago
WinDivvy
"Managing windows can be frustrating, requiring precision control of your mouse or trackpad for clicking, dragging, pushing and pulling your windows to the size and position you desire. Even with all this work, it’s very difficult to get windows exactly where you want them, so most of the time windows are left scattered all over the screen."
windows  application  management  useful 
7 weeks ago
scroll kit
"Create knockout standalone webpages without writing a line of code."
css  design  web  useful 
7 weeks ago
Building a message map
"The best way to ensure that your messages are clear and targeted is what we call a message map. It’s essentially a flowchart that shows the stages a prospect goes through until they become a buyer, along with the objections they have at each stage of the process and the content needed to overcome those objections."
advertising  map  marketing  message  flow  example  useful  how  to  stages  funnel 
7 weeks ago
How We Will Read
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution. Now publishers are in the business not of overcoming scarcity but of manufacturing demand."
publishing  reading  shirky  clay  book  social  quote 
7 weeks ago
Guest Post: Are You the Next Big Cash Crop?
"What are you? A human being or a vegetable? Okay, it’s a silly question. But in the context of "Big Data," -- the collecting of massive amounts of online data by companies, advertisers and marketers -- it’s not that silly."
big  data  user  privacy  vrm  vegetable  revenue  social  crop 
7 weeks ago
How to Ask a Question
"After they finished and the moderator opened the floor for questions, the usual thing happened. The questioners by and large had no questions. Instead they offered up prolix piles of words that led nowhere in particular."
debate  question  speech  how  to 
7 weeks ago
flux machine
Sinister GIFs.
animated  gif  lovecraftian  sinister  horror 
8 weeks ago
BuildTwifbook
"In a series of 23 videos, learn to build a real website. You'll follow along to setup your development environment and build the basic features of a social website where your users can register, login, logout, create wall posts, update their status, and upload pictures. After completing the site, we'll show you how to push it to a real server and point it to your own domain, so your friends can visit it and see what you've built."
development  build  website  login  server  dynamic  video  tutorial  how  to 
8 weeks ago
Profile of Karl Lagerfeld
"The headquarters of Chanel are situated in two adjacent eighteenth-century buildings on the Rue Cambon, in Paris, occupying a labyrinthine suite of rooms on five floors, above a street-level Chanel boutique. One evening last December, Karl Lagerfeld, the label’s artistic director, and twenty-two assistants—hair, makeup, shoes, jewelry, music—crammed into a room on the complex’s top floor to conduct a fitting for a collection that was to be shown six days later, in Monte Carlo."
fashion  designer  interview  profile 
8 weeks ago
Bloomberg and Reuters: The Future of News
"They're rich, they're global, and they're snapping up A-list journalists—and maybe newspapers, even 'The New York Times'."
news  journalism 
8 weeks ago
Audioengine 5+
"Audioengine 5+ (A5+) Premium Powered Speakers deliver audiophile-quality sound and features at a price that continues to set the standard for affordable high-quality audio. Connect your iDevice, computer, TV, or any other audio component for great stereo sound in any room."
audio  speaker  bookshelf  powered  active  amplifier 
8 weeks ago
The Wirecutter | A List of the Best Gadgets
"See that big list of gadgets? Don't be intimidated. Pick the category of gadgets that you want to shop in, and then read the descriptions of our handful of choices. Each one is special, but I bet there's one that fits you. We've gone with high end, low end, and what we believe is just right."
gadgets  guide  tips  list  technology  to  buy 
8 weeks ago
maps.stamen.com
"For over a decade, Stamen has been exploring cartography with our clients and in research. These three maps are presented here for your enjoyment and use wherever you display OpenStreetMap data."
map  cartography  pretty 
8 weeks ago
Dropcam
HD Wi-Fi video monitoring cameras for iPhone, Android or computer
camera  security  streaming  video 
8 weeks ago
The Go Programming Language
"Go is an open source project developed by a team at Google and many contributors from the open source community."
google  go  programming  language  project 
8 weeks ago
Honda VF1000R
"In stock form, the Honda VF1000R was a heavy machine, tipping the scales at over 530 lbs. But it was built with an eye to race homologation, especially for the endurance classes, and had a strong 130 hp motor."
honda  motorcycle  motorbike  modification  bike 
8 weeks ago
Oakley WIND JACKET Sunglasses
"... is a special rendition of our renowned Split Jacket™ sunglass. We engineered Wind Jacket with snap-in gaskets for a protective seal and added a removable strap for a secure fit. Originally designed with motorcycle riders in mind, the removable gasket minimizes air flow across your eyes at high speeds."
sunglasses  sport  oakley  to  buy  glasses 
8 weeks ago
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