August 2008
46 posts
Tricking People into Doing the Right Thing →
Anyone who has studied psychology knows just how puzzling human behavior can be. Busy people are trying to cope in a complex world, and this means they simply cannot afford to think deeply about…
Instapaper updated on the iphone. →
This makes me happy.
notes from Fred Wilson talk at Leeds, 8 Aug 2008
My ThinkFold outline
Language as an interface →
Quicksilver, meet the Internet. Actually, that’s unfair, but it’s a convenient way to explain the concept (well, at least to a Mac user). Lovely to see the determination of Aza Raskin,…
WatchQuicksilver, meet the Internet.
Actually, that’s unfair, but it’s a convenient way to explain the concept (well, at least to a Mac user).
Lovely to see the determination of Aza Raskin, whose devotion to the idea of a language based interface lives on from Humanized, and ends up in the current ‘OS’ of Firefox.
The idea of language as an interface is hardly new, but...
Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely... →
I have to confess that one of the social networking tools I find most valuable is Goodreads. (It’s a close second to Twitter, and way ahead of Facebook, Friendfeed, or Dopplr.) Unlike twitter,…
“Dear Adobe:
Why do you build programs (Dreamweaver) based on JavaScript, which...”
– Interesting Ideas/Feedback site. Gripes, but you know, they care enough to moan. Nice presentation (resist the list). Dear Adobe
via Daring Fireball
“Then, the airplane lands. Cellphones and P.D.A.’s snap into action. Long rows of...”
– Everybody’s Business - Connected, Yes, but Hermetically Sealed - NYTimes.com
Watchalexcreed:
anglepoised:
Cut Chemist - 1st Big Break.
“The first music video ever shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens”.
What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn't →
Today, platform wars ain’t what they used to be. On the one hand, there’s Facebook - playing a textbook game of platform strategy, but slowly suffocating the utility of its own network. On the…
Is This the End? →
I’m thinking about using the following two quotes and two paragraphs to wrap up my book on Enterprise 2.0. What do you think? Do the quotes capture something essential, or at least interesting,…
“Students today, they use the Internet. They read their textbooks,” Ross...”
– Quite a sad, and interesting story of a local bookshop closure.
How to compete in this world of digitisation? Taking a look at the photos, it’s clear there’s a major emotional pull to the place; perhaps coffee and magazines, to augment the books would have helped it survive?
Good,...
Broken Business Processes Contribute to Email... →
Ramon Padilla from Tech Republic picked up on a quote of mine from a Christopher Lynch interview:
“(Employees) spend most of their time handling exceptions to business
processes. That’s what…
The Trickle List →
There’s a gaping hole in The Taste of the Day. Yes, it’s a handy task management system, but it’s incomplete. It describes a process for constant scrubbing of a task list, as well as a handy…
“Our enemy really isn’t capitalism, it’s cynicism. That’s one...”
– Dimen Designs: Billy Bragg’s “I Keep Faith”
David Brooks is Worried →
David Brooks is one of the conservative pundits I read regularly. On Friday night as the Olympic opening ceremony was unfolding there was a lot of idle chatter on this blog about the…
twittering from the past →
A couple of weeks ago, Sebastian Mary posted about experiments with sending out literature via Twitter. She found herself disappointed that DailyLit was neither “abridging the text savagely for…
Long predicted, but nonetheless an important... →
ARTICLE:
China becomes biggest net nation, BBC, 28 July 2008 (Thanks: Andy)
David Galbraith has turned Smashing Telly into well, the new TV.
Superb curation, and increasingly, rather excellent intros, like this extract introducing a Channel4 documentary on the Quran:
“That this review in the Financial Times: “For those of us who ground our lives on what we believe to be rationality, the testimony of those who ground theirs on books that reason says must be...
Radar Theme: Index →
This post is an index to a series of posts made in August 2008 outlining major O’Reilly Radar themes. New posts will be linked in here as they go up. Bio
Synthetic Biology
Neuro-Everything
Putin picks his moment on Georgia →
ARTICLE: “Georgian, Russian Troops Clash in South Ossetia
Putin Vows to Protect S. Ossetians, Says Conflict Will Lead to ‘Retaliatory Actions,’” by Peter Finn, Washington Post, 8 August 2008,…
How Buildings Learn - the full TV series online →
This solves a personal 10 yr quest; Stewart Brand’s BBC TV series from 1997 ‘How Buildings Learn’ has been uploaded. The fantastic curated Smashing Telly spotted them and wrote a really good…
Stop Press for August 7th →
Waking the book publishers (by other means than piracy) - Helene proposes a set letter to harry publishers for ebooks. It’s a real mark of how much people love books, and the resulting goodwill…
Constructivism: the ism that just keeps givin’ →
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Composition, c. 1921. Courtesy UEA Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design
No movement in art has found more favour with designers than…
'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar...
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
“(Twitter) could have been the Network Solutions of this space, the name...”
– Dave Winer’s superb thinking on micro-blogging business models
links for 2008-08-02 [delicious.com] →
When Obama wins the streets will be made of cheese. (tags: web mashup humor generator twitter politics obama satire)
