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The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak | Inc.com
About a year ago, I bought a red telephone with a really loud ringer for the office. Whenever a customer calls the help number on our website, that phone rings. The engineers initially complained about it. They said, "That's so friggin' annoying!" And I'd say, "There's a really simple solution: Answer the friggin' phone and do whatever it takes to make that customer happy. Then hang up, unplug the phone, walk it down to the other end of the office, and plug it in down there."
business  career  culture  management  startup  customer-service 
september 2011 by vielmetti
Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now | Video on TED.com
Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately connect or conquer us? Case offers surprising insight into our cyborg selves.
anthropology  culture  mobile  technology  cyborg  robot-parade 
february 2011 by vielmetti
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
[4] People commonly use the word "procrastination" to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.
addiction  culture  health  internet  technology 
january 2011 by vielmetti
kewlchops: Clasmic.
I've also learnt more about the -clasm suffix, particularly in terms of biblioclasm. There's myriad examples in history of bookish destruction throughout history. It's not that corporate death is necesarily always a political or destructive act, but, particularly with digital information, the vast deletion swathes could be considered somewhat "clasmic."
biblioclasm  archive  commons  culture  flickr 
january 2011 by vielmetti
the connective
Together we can replace the telco's 'last mile' - the communication networks at the neighborhood level - with our own 'first mile' of free and open connectivity. I am launching the connective to give communities around the world the seeds and support they need to own and control the connnectivity in their neighborhoods.
activism  commons  culture  internet  fork-the-internet 
january 2011 by vielmetti
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
That's what I tell my Gutenbourgeois friends, if they'll listen. I say: Create a service experience around what you publish and sell. Whatever “customer service” means when it comes to books and authors, figure it out and do it. Do it in partnership with your readers. Turn your readers into members. Not visitors, not subscribers; you want members. And then don't just consult them, but give them tools to consult amongst themselves. These things are cheap and easy now if you hire one or two smart people instead of a large consultancy. Define what the boundaries are in your community and punish transgressors without fear of losing a sale. Then, if your product is good, you'll sell things. (Don't count on your fellow Gutenbourgeois to buy things. They're clicking the little thumb icon on YouTube like everyone else.) If you don't want to do that then just find niche communities who might conceivably care about your products and buy great ad placements. It's a better online spend.
culture  internet  publishing  web  writing  customer-service  why-wasnt-i-consulted  commentariat 
january 2011 by vielmetti
The Future of Libraries as Places | The Institute For The Future
So libraries are more popular than ever. Another unanticipated outcome of the end of cyberspace. But what's most interesting is just how different the activities of these 21st century undergrads are from what I used to do in libraries during the 1990s. Whereas most of my peers looked to libraries as a place of solace and quiet focus, for these students they are intensely collaborative spaces.

The powers-that-be seem to be responding to this on some level. A few years ago, NYU invested a significant amount of money in revamping the two lower sub-surface levels of the library. These spaces are buzzing around the clock, bringing together the three catalysts of creative, collaborative knowledge work - snacks and coffee, computers and networks, and deeply motivated men and women.
nyu  libraries  superpatron  bobst  iftf  architecture  via:gnat  library  books  culture  trends 
january 2009 by vielmetti
Adactio: Journal—The tragedy of The Commons
The Commons is not just one of the finest achievements on Flickr, it’s a shining example of just how great the web can be. If the project dies because of the idiotic actions of some short-sighted bean counters at Yahoo, it will be a great loss for you, me and our culture.

My trust in Flickr has been shaken. I’m beginning to think that entrusting Flickr with my photos, my data and my memories might prove to be an ill-judged decision.
flickr  photos  culture  2008  trust  yahoo  oates  george 
december 2008 by vielmetti
VegCooking Blog : Archives : Spanish Style Home Fries
Most home fries recipes I've seen contain just a few basic ingredients, like salt, pepper, oil, garlic, and onions, but this one uses other ingredients that are more common to Spanish cuisine—paprika, parsley, and turmeric. OK, saffron is technically the ingredient common to Spanish cuisine, and turmeric is just an inexpensive way to cheat.
food  recipes  recipe  baking  culture  cooking  vegan  vegetarian  technique  vegetables  potatoes  spain  paprika  potato  fries  mmm-fries  would-you-like-fries-with-that 
december 2008 by vielmetti
Spiders in Art and Culture
Here are just some of the ways spiders have featured in the rituals, beliefs, art, entertainment and literature of people from all over the world, from ancient through to modern times.

* Spiders in history
* Spiders in Aboriginal art
* Spiders in Vanuatu
* Spiders in West Africa
* Tarantulas - the truth behind their evil image
* The truth about Miss Muffet?
* Spiderman
spiders  literature  art  culture 
november 2008 by vielmetti
<nettime> Phil Agre: Building an Internet Culture
Each morning the technicians would come
to work, pick up their company vehicles, and drive to customers'
premises where photocopiers needed fixing; each evening they
would return to the company, go to a bar together, and drink beer.
Although the company had provided the technicians with formal
training, Orr discovered that they actually acquired much of their
expertise informally while drinking beer together.
beer  moar-beer  agre  phil  orr  julian  learning  culture  training  internet  brazil 
october 2008 by vielmetti
Girl, Interrupted
Patty Hearst was a rich man’s daughter, kidnapped for ransom by a group whose demands were delivered through public “communiqués” sent to radio stations. Clearly she would have made news in any era, but it took something more than the facts of her case, spectacular though they may have been, to account for the impact she had on the American public (between February 1974 and March 1976, she was on the cover of Newsweek seven times). The central question about her experience was also being asked in a million tiny dramas that were unfolding across the country—ruptures that turned on blue jeans and broken curfews and birth-control pills, rather than on joining a gang of armed revolutionaries: Had this well-tended and much-loved daughter really crossed over? And if she had, was she so far gone that even her own people might not want her back?
history  culture  america  terrorism  hearst  patty  manson  charles  party-like-its-1974  symbionese-liberation-army 
august 2008 by vielmetti
Robot Wisdom auxiliary: Everyone should (link)blog
Linkbloggers also need to study how to craft short headlines that boil down stories to their essence-- hardly anybody has even recognised the importance of this
delicious  design  internet  nethistory  links  blog  blogging  culture  futurism  media  headlines  craft  cruft  linkblog 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse
a worker-owned and collectively-managed bookstore and coffeehouse located in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood.
activism  activist  anarchy  baltimore  books  cafe  coffee  culture  vegan  vegetarian  autonomous-collective 
july 2008 by vielmetti
GetBack Home - 1974
retro music nostalgia one year at a time; here's 1974.
music  retro  culture  party-like-its-1974  radio 
july 2008 by vielmetti
SMILEY:25 YEARS OLD AND NEVER LOOKED HAPPIER!
So the message itself, and the thread that gave rise to it, are here. The exact date of the smiley’s birth can now be determined: 19 September, 1982. It’s great to have this message back just in time for the 20th anniversary of the original post.
communication  culture  history  theory  nethistory  typography  :-)  smiley  party-like-its-1982  :-( 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Anti-War Books - Krieg dem Kriege
The strategy employed in the book was to simply publish as many shocking and horrendous photographs of the war as he could find and caption them with simple didactic phrases testifying to the brutal and ghastly inhumanity of modern warfare.
books  culture  death  war  photo  photos  history  party-like-its-1924 
july 2008 by vielmetti
Anarchogeek: The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities
That’s the attraction of the SEO / SEM world. They’re not respected by true hackers, but they are huge, and they come in and destroy communities like reddit.
seo-destroys-community  death-of-the-net  film-at-11  death-by-success  community  culture  internet  media 
july 2008 by vielmetti
The naysayer’s timeline of technology in the workplace.
Whenever someone doesn't want to adopt a new technology, and doesn't want to think very hard about why, the common questions they post are: "What's the ROI? What's the use case? Who else is doing it?"
business  culture  internet  dr-no  just-say-no  bad-idea  dont-go-there  trailing-indicator  no  no-no  no-no-1000-times-no  corporate 
may 2008 by vielmetti
The Internet? Bah! | Newsweek.com
HYPE ALERT: WHY CYBERSPACE ISN'T, AND WILL NEVER BE, NIRVANA. Cliff Stoll rant.
rant  party-like-its-1995  usenet  nethistory  internet  culture  cyberspace 
march 2008 by vielmetti
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Moral Economy of Web 2.0 (Part One)
" please describe web 2.0 to me in 2 sentences or less. you make all the content. they keep all the revenue." -- Bash.org
2008  culture  economy  crowdsourcing  fan  media 
march 2008 by vielmetti
NPR: Alternative 'Commie' High Mellows with Time
Community High School in Ann Arbor, Mich., has offered children in this progressive city an alternative to traditional high school since 1972.
audio  creativity  culture  local  annarbor  michigan  commie-high 
february 2008 by vielmetti
LA Weekly - Eat+Drink - The Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog: So Good It's Illegal - Daniel Hernandez - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
You can smell one from blocks away. The grilled bacon, twisted around a wiener, is topped with grilled onions and a mountaintop of diced tomatoes, ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise. Then one whole grilled green poblano chile is plopped impossibly on top.
awesome  cuisine  culture  food  law  losangeles  recipes  bacon  hotdog  not-vegan  so-very-not-vegan  la 
february 2008 by vielmetti
The Autumn of the Multitaskers
Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity
attention  2008  blog  culture  efficiency  lifehacks  organization  productivity  psychology  review  trends  web  work  gtd  thrash  multitasking 
february 2008 by vielmetti
International Slide Rule Museum
I learned multiplication in 12th grade math on a slide rule and with log tables; we had an enormous slide rule mounted above the blackboard. awesome.
calculator  culture  education  engineering  history  math  mathematics  measurement  museum  science  sliderule  logarithm 
december 2007 by vielmetti
Taking Marriage Private - New York Times
In 1215, the church decreed that a “licit” marriage must take place in church. But people who married illictly had the same rights and obligations as a couple married in church: their children were legitimate; the wife had the same inheritance rights;
culture  history  nytimes  religion  society  sociology  marriage 
november 2007 by vielmetti
Naomi Wolf: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Naomi Wolf's The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot will be published by Chelsea Green in September.
party-like-its-1984  naomi-wolf  books  essays  culture  democracy  fascism  america  amerikkka 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Susan Mernit's Blog: She's Geeky: I'm going--how about you?
I've been working with Kalyia Hamlin, Laurie Rae, Julie French, Mary Hodder and lots of others to help pull together an unconference called She's Geeky that is happening Oct 22-23 at the Computer History Museum in Santa Clara, California.
culture  events  gender  technology  women  shes-geeky  susan-mernit  kalyia-hamlin  laurie-rae  julie-french  mary-hodder  unconference  santa-clara  california  computer-history-museum 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Urban Dictionary: roflcopter
The word is derived from a unit in Warcraft III, the gyrocopter (flying machine). Your immediate response when someone masses gyros (to be funny, ruin the game, mess around or whatever) is to rofl for ten straight minutes until the copters of doom and des
culture  internet  roflcopter  gamers 
september 2007 by vielmetti
Ian Bogost - A Professor's Impressions of Facebook
Quite the opposite: I want to suggest that we don't know how to use Facebook at all, we do not understand how it alters our current and future relationships with one another. But the act of trying to answer this question is itself a model we can set for o
facebook  2007  culture  net.culture 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Stuff | Paul Graham on material possessions and clutter
A historical change has taken place, and I've now realized it. Stuff used to be valuable, and now it's not. For most people, rich or poor, stuff has become a burden.
clutter  culture  home  interesting  philosophy  clean 
august 2007 by vielmetti
Urban Manifesto: Factors that make a city great - International Herald Tribune
What do you really want out of a city? And what can you do without? With the environment top of the agenda in mayors' offices around the world, Monocle looks beyond the recycling bins and congestion charges to see what makes for a liveable city. Tolerance
manifesto  urban  urbandesign  urbanism  cities  city  culture  design  living  newspapers  travel 
august 2007 by vielmetti
How children lost the right to roam in four generations | the Daily Mail
When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision.
anthropology  children  culture  future  history  kids  map  mapping  urbanplanning  parenting  walk  walking  walkertracker 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Britannica Blog
Britannica Blog is a place for smart, lively conversations about a broad range of topics, with all postings written by white males.
blogs  culture 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Continuous Partial Inattention, anyone? -- Alec Saunders .LOG
Stowe Boyd argues eloquently that it is the new normal, but not everyone agrees. His talk at Reboot9 (it looked pretty similar to the talk he gave at Etel) took a swipe at Linda Stone's characterization of Continuous Partial Attention as a disorder.
stowe-boyd  linda-stone  continuous-partial-attention  reboot9  reboot  etel  attention  communication  culture 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Soviet-Era Arcade Games Crawl Out of Their Cold War Graves
Last month, the four officially opened the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines in a Stalin-era bomb shelter under a university dormitory. Packed into two rooms are dozens of Soviet-made video game carcasses in various states of repair. Some work perfectly; o
arcade  culture  game  games  gaming  history  technology  ussr  soviet-union  soviet  moscow 
june 2007 by vielmetti
sara, tegan and: the con
band uses library cards for their graphics
artist  band  culture  indie  music  superpatron 
june 2007 by vielmetti
Rules no one teaches but everyone learns | csmonitor.com
Ms. Nichols reproduced a chart showing a hierarchy of modifiers: determiner, quality, size, age, color, origin, material. She gives some examples: a colorful new silk scarf, that silver Japanese car. Some other such charts have a hierarchy that goes like
culture  linguistics  words  writing  via:jhritz 
may 2007 by vielmetti
I will soon have no memory of this (kottke.org)
it often takes me several seconds to remember posting it...my weblog (my outboard brain) is where I put things that I want to "remember"
blog  brain  culture  kottke  memory  nyt  social  technology  memory-palace  matteo-ricci  artificial-memory 
may 2007 by vielmetti
Kitchen Chick: Asian Legend: Taiwanese Snacks Invade Ann Arbor
When Joe and I first read that Asian Legend on William St. was offering Taiwanese snacks, we rushed down there the next day to give them a try. We both love dim sum and Asian street foods, and we were eager to see what new tastes Asian Legend had brought
culture  food  local  restaurant  review  asian-legend  via:kitchenchick  taiwanese  snack  dim-sum  eats  yum 
may 2007 by vielmetti
History Magazine | What time is dinner?
n the 1790s the upper class was rising from bed around ten a.m. or noon, and then eating breakfast at an hour when their grandparents had eaten dinner. They then went for "morning walks" in the afternoon and greeted each other with "Good morning" until th
culture  europe  food  history  time  uk  breakfast  lunch  dinner  supper  luncheon  nuncheon 
april 2007 by vielmetti
Welcome to Michigoss
If you’re reading this message it most likely means you’re a close friend of an editor. No matter, michigoss.com has arrived and we urge you to read and to encourage others to read.
culture  michigan  umich  zine  annarbor  via:mahatm 
april 2007 by vielmetti
Web 2.0 and The Quantity-Over-Quality Problem at a r b o r l a w
anticipating "Cult of the Amateur" and "how the internet is killing our culture". your culture maybe
culture  internet  web20  wikipedia  trademark  authority  law  legal 
april 2007 by vielmetti
MONOCLE Homepage
digital version of print magazine. march 2007 issue has Lego interview. very brave to offer 250mb+ movies as downloads in magazine format.
art  business  culture  design  fashion  magazine  media  online  paper  lego 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Passeggiata - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano WordReference.com
go for a walk, promenade, cakewalk, stroll. would be a good name for an italian version of walker tracker.
culture  slow  social  walking  words 
march 2007 by vielmetti
Wordie
this needs to go to the vacuum egroup for jlawler
*****  flickr  linguistics  words  vacuum  socialsoftware  community  blog  social  writing  lists  culture 
december 2006 by vielmetti
yellow chair stories
"access to the wifi network is free from the yellow chair"
art  collaboration  culture  london  network  social  wifi  neighborhood  neighborhoodinformatics  urban 
june 2006 by vielmetti
Six degrees of reputation
We report on techniques that are employed by authors,
artists, editors, and readers to ensure they promote their agendas
while they build their identities as experts. We suggest a framework
for discussing the changes of the categories of authorship,
c
reputation  research  identity  via:ilist  culture  amazon  books  recommender 
april 2006 by vielmetti
The Yes Men
see also Andy Bichlbaum interview on Teeter Talk
culture  identity  infosec  subversion  performance  politics  art  media 
april 2006 by vielmetti
prematurely grey » Coming Out of the Closet: Part One
The majority of people here have to walk from their car to their front door. And that’s what makes us so weird. We see other people walking their dogs, pushing strollers, going for a run as we make that tiny walk. We see our next door neighbors.
cooperation  culture  urban  thecompact  austin  via:riddle  neighborhood  walking  dogs 
april 2006 by vielmetti
The Goodspeed Update » My Papers Indexed
Rob Goodspeed's original research on U of Michigan student activist archived at the Bentley Historical Library on campus.
annarbor  culture  library  politics  umich  michigamua  michigandaily  michigan  bamn  bentley 
december 2005 by vielmetti
DAVID CRUMM: Americans show unity in values
Wayne Baker on how people in the USA aren't so far apart on basic values
culture  religion  values 
january 2005 by vielmetti

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