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After Woolwich: how the media got it wrong

After Woolwich: how the media got it wrong [http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/05/after-woolwich-how-media-got-it-wrong-and-how-public-can-get-it-right] : > Perhaps it is a shame that no newspaper inverted the lens. As one of the killers told her “we want to start a war in London tonight”, the astonishingly brave scout leader Ingrid

Evernote's "China Strategy" & Execution

Evernote’s “China Strategy” & Execution [http://startupbug.tumblr.com/post/50287504154/evernote]: Really interesting analysis of doing business in China as a foreign brand. In summary: Go native. Must be easier said than done but case studies like this help.

Technology

Holiday Homescreen

From my post on Medium: [https://medium.com/mobile-culture/9d242155ad60] > Even with a good regime of folders, the front page of my iPhone homescreen is almost like a rundown of responsibilities and considerations. Mailbox, Fantastical and Reminders. Feedly, Instapaper and Reddit. Vine, Instagram and Facebook. Tweetbot. There’s something

Glass

Glass Half Empty

From my latest on Medium: [https://medium.com/the-world-according-to-glass/a848536efc15] > Smartphones rose to power because they took a device you always had with you and crammed it full of extra value. These portable computers used the ‘phone’ concept as a trojan horse at just the right time of mobile

Hawking's Israel boycott, Tweet by Tweet

Hawking’s Israel boycott, Tweet by Tweet [http://matthewkalman.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/this-otherwise-utterly-failed-and.html] : Articles like this show the labour of good journalism.

Quadropus Rampage - From the creators of Towelfight 2 - Upcoming Android Games - DroidGamers Forums

Quadropus Rampage – From the creators of Towelfight 2 – Upcoming Android Games – DroidGamers Forums [http://www.droidgamers.com/forums/topic/838-quadropus-rampage-from-the-creators-of-towelfight-2/?p=4428] : > As it turned out, lots of people wanted to play it, but very few people wanted to pay for it. We made a free game — we just

The Gruber Conundrum

The Gruber Conundrum [http://daringfireball.net/2013/05/google_versus]: > Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook I don’t think anyone understands Apple and has finger on

Google Glass: the world’s worst surveillance device.

Google Glass: the world’s worst surveillance device. [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/05/google_glass_privacy_it_s_actually_the_world_s_worst_surveillance_device.html] : > Starner has worked with Google on the Glass project since early in the design process. He told me

Why Iron Man 3's Director Ruled Hollywood

Why Iron Man 3’s Director Ruled Hollywood [http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/why-iron-man-3s-director-ruled-hollywood.html]: > In his screenplays, populated with broken men who rouse themselves from hangovers and beatdowns to defeat the bad guy, it’s Black himself who emerges as the movie’s most charismatic antihero. He

"Ain't No Reason" - The Magazine

“Ain’t No Reason” – The Magazine [http://the-magazine.org/12/aint-no-reason]: > Speakers of it use the same unspoken rules whenever they use the language, and different speakers apply the same rules consistently. If such speakers were just poor at using standard English, you wouldn’t see most AAVE speakers

A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy [http://abovethecrowd.com/2013/04/18/a-rake-too-far-optimal-platformpricing-strategy/] : > iOS could have been both the definitive Facebook mobile device, AND the definitive Amazon shopping device. They could have been integrated from the beginning at a deep level: your social network in contacts; your

Conservative Party 1978 Manifesto (2nd draft)

Conservative Party 1978 Manifesto (2nd draft) [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/110273]: Kind of neat: a draft of the Toey manifesto with Thatcher’s hand written tweaks. Docs like this make me realise how close PR and politics are as disciplines. But there’s nothing like seeing the work in

A Manager's Manifesto

A Manager’s Manifesto [https://medium.com/on-management/be5f6b118084]: Management is still far and away the biggest most fascinating challenge I’ve faced in my career so far. There’s a strange serene wisdom to the people who naturally pull it off – never fail to be impressed by those who

'Now Is The Best Time': A Critique Of BioShock Infinite

‘Now Is The Best Time’: A Critique Of BioShock Infinite [http://kotaku.com/now-is-the-best-time-a-critique-of-bioshock-infinite-472517493] : Kotaku: > This is a game that lives in its own alternate universe, is in love with its own cleverness, instead of being genuinely clever. This sentence is as true of the article as the game

Twitter's Big Challenge: Too Much Twitter

Twitter’s Big Challenge: Too Much Twitter [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/04/twitters-big-challenge-too-much-twitter/] : From Wired: > (Twitter) needs something a little more algorithmically curated–it needs something that looks a little bit more like Facebook’s News Feed This is interesting because I’m assuming there’s something

What Your Profile Picture Says About You

What Your Profile Picture Says About You [http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46537875392/what-your-profile-picture-says-about-you-hint] : > there is a mathematical relationship between one’s douchebaggery and facial angle from camera.

Weakness with consequence: Why marketing is like gravity

Weakness with consequence: Why marketing is like gravity [http://martinweigel.org/2013/04/08/weakness-with-consequence-why-marketing-is-like-gravity/] : > Marketers might like to imagine the consumer in permanent orbit around their brand. But the fact of the matter is that people are happily polygamous in their brand ‘relationships’ for the simple reason that

A Facebook of the Future: Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg Show Us Their New Content, New Algorithms, and New Alliances

A Facebook of the Future: Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg Show Us Their New Content, New Algorithms, and New Alliances [http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/05/facebook-future-mark-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg] : The best article about Facebook I’ve read in a long time – an excellent summary of recent history there.

Meat - a charming short story about mankind

Meat – a charming short story about mankind [http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html]: > “They’re made out of meat.” “Meat?” “Meat. They’re made out of meat.” “Meat?” “There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our

Visceral Apps

Visceral Apps [http://mysterioustrousers.com/news/2013/3/25/visceral-apps-and-you]: > when properly done, a visceral app actually causes your body to release endorphins. Worth a read considering this was a real emphasis with Facebook Home and its UI physics too.

"That output does not rise or fall in direct proportion to the number of hours worked is a lesson..."

““That output does not rise or fall in direct proportion to the number of hours worked is a lesson that seemingly has to be relearned each generation.”” – Bring Back the 40 Hour Work Week [http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/] via @tomstandage

The Power of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer, Understand the Brain, and Predict the Future

The Power of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer, Understand the Brain, and Predict the Future [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/powers-of-swarms/all/]: > In the 1980s cognitive scientists began to posit that human cognition itself is an emergent process. In your brain, this thinking goes, different sets

Posts

Vine is best when you're Being John Malkovic

Two big things I like about Twitter: 1. Source of content – links etc 2. Glimpses of how others see the world I think my Instagram feed was too weighted to people trying to achieve 1, e.g. Here’s a lovely sunset (satisfying on content alone.) While theres some of

Killing Home Working

Killing Home Working [http://socialoptic.com/2013/03/killing-home-working/]: > If someone smart makes (what looks like) a dumb decision, then they probably know something you don’t. There is, of course, a chance that you know something they don’t, but the further away from the situation you are,

You don't want experts. You want jacks-of-all-trades

You don’t want experts. You want jacks-of-all-trades [http://pandodaily.com/2013/03/22/you-dont-want-experts-you-want-jacks-of-all-trades/] : I feel like this is one of those things that’s easy to say when you happen to be a generalist. The fact is, people are either specialists or mediocre generalists. Or worse… Mediocre specialists.