February 2012
9 posts
Watch“Whale Song” for Modest Mouse (by Bent Image Lab)
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses...”
– T. E. Lawrence
(via marissashrum)
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.”
– P.T. Barnum
January 2012
33 posts
It always comes back to purpose...
NY Times, Censoring of Tweets Sets Off #Outrage:
The announcement signals the choice that a service like Twitter has to make about its own existence: Should it be more of a free-speech tool that can be used in defiance of governments, as happened during the Arab Spring protests, or a commercial venture that necessarily must obey the laws of the lands where it seeks to attract customers and...
“We’re making the transition from an application to a platform for your memory,”...”
– Phil Libin, the chief executive of Evernote
Evernote Takes On Web Reading With Clearly - NYTimes.com
“In fact, Lana Del Rey’s rise says much about the nature of modern fame in...”
– Lana Del Rey: The strange story of the star who rewrote her past | Music | The Observer
“The unwillingness of Facebook and Google to share a public commons when it comes...”
– - John Battelle, Search, Plus Your World, As Long As It’s Our World
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Once again, Google steps in a pile of doodoo with its maladroit efforts in trying to absorb the social web. Unwilling to simply index things and offer them up as search results, Google wants to ‘socialize’ search....
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs
The Guts of a New Machine - NYTimes.com
“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action,...”
– Anne Lamott
“If you’re good at interactive you’re good at making people do things. Our...”
– - Jeff Benjamin
Jeff Benjamin is Not Just a Mad Scientist | Digiday
December 2011
11 posts
“The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
WatchCar projection mapping (by Radugadesign)
WatchDieter Rams - SFMOMA (by Andrew Birchett)