January 2012
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The Audience You Didn’t Know You Had →
An eye-opening piece by Angela Colter in Content Magazine. (Emphasis mine.):
People with low literacy skills have always been part of our audience. … Most of us just didn’t know it. But now we do.
Another common question, “Won’t dumbing down the content make it unpleasant for everyone else?” … You’re not “dumbing down” anything, you’re simplifying it. … In fact, crafting your content to...
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton, a guy who knows a little about making money in the music business, talking about MegaUpload and piracy.
Do People Really Want Participatory Government? →
jedsundwall:
Good question. Come tell Michelle Chronister and me what you think at SXSW!
I do, but then I’m weird. How about you?
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“The way I see it, there’s a lack of need for any legislation at all. As a...”
– Tim O’Reilly, Why I’m fighting SOPA
Six GOP Co-Sponsors of PIPA Ask Reid to Cancel... →
wilwheaton:
As an amazing validation of the grassroots response to SOPA, led by groups like Fight for the Future, EFF, Public Knowledge, and Demand Progress, they write, “Since the mark-up, we have increasingly heard from a large number of constituents and other stakeholders with vocal concerns about possible unintended consequences of the proposed legislation, including breaches in...
The new X PRIZE: Tricorders! →
instapom:
Yesterday, my friends (and former colleagues) at the X PRIZE Foundation rolled out their newest incentive prize: the $10,000,000 Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE. Teams from around the world will compete to build “a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions.” This is truly a Star Trek idea being made real.
So awesome. I...
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CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Startup You →
Fake Grimlock, via cnnmoneytech:
YOU READY. PEEL AWAY FAIL PAINT, STRAP AWESOME ENGINE TO BACK, GRAB WIN CAPACITORS AND ROCKET INTO SKY ON STACK OF WIN.
ONLY THING THAT STOP YOU IS YOU. GET OUT OF OWN WAY, SET COURSE TO AWESOME.
There’s more. Read the whole thing, then set a course to awesome.
“Fortunately, it appears there’s still a thriving community of fans who...”
– Cheaper than Free « Bandcamp Blog
tldr: People looking for free (aka pirated) copies of music end up paying the artist when Bandcamp offers them a way to do so easily.
<3 this effect so very much.
“We have more processing power, affordable tools, and combined intelligence right...”
– from 10 New Year’s resolutions for designers
I usually don’t care for lists, but this one is so very well written. I’m taking all these to heart.
December 2011
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“I passionately believe that the purpose of a modern web design is purely to...”
– Tom Milway, from How To Build a Modern Website in 2011.
To me this has been true for over a decade, but Milway still puts it beautifully.
“The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had...”
– A Statement From Louis CK on the success of distributing his latest comedy special online for $5.
Good job, internet.
(via ryeisenberg)
USA.gov: NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers New... →
usagov:
NASA’s Kepler Mission announced the discovery of a newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b. Kepler-22b is located 600 light years away, and is 2.4 times the radius of Earth. It orbits a star similar to our sun, and is the smallest found to orbit in the middle of a habitable zone. Though the planet is larger than Earth, its orbit is only 290 days. Scientists have yet to find out Kepler-22b’s...
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November 2011
6 posts
“It appears that Tumblr built in a day or two what no D.C.-based technology...”
– MediaShift Idea Lab . #DontBreakTheInternet: How The Web Became a Political Force vs. SOPA | PBS (via matthew)
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Jed says:
However, what allowed Tumblr to build its SOPA bashing machine is something unique to Tumblr that I’ve never observed in any other social media service: A SPINE. What other...
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October 2011
4 posts
“It’s not marketing. It’s doing what matters, it’s doing what works, it’s doing...”
– Jed Sundwall, from The Words of Steve Jobs | The Measured Voice Blog
“The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s...”
– Barack Obama (via df)
September 2011
22 posts
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“We really need to start not just exploring space, but utilizing space.”
– Astronaut Ron Garan On His Harrowing Landing, Innovations In Outer Space, And Tweeting From The Final Frontier
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a...”
– Elizabeth Warren (via jacobjoaquin)
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Joss Whedon: Feminist
Interviewer: So why do you write these strong female characters?
Whedon: Because you're still asking me that question.
“Han. Was. Lying. He was lying his ass off, because he thought he could maybe get...”
– emkajii comments on Clearing up some confusion in Star Wars…
This is possibly the funniest explanation I’ve heard for the “Kessel Run in 12 parsecs” flub in the Star Wars script. Click through to read emkajii’s whole line of reasoning.