February 2008
78 posts
Bernanke’s Midterm Tests - New York Times →
January 2008
52 posts
WinSilver →
The Autumn of the Multitaskers →
Autonomy through automation. This was the embryonic fallacy that grew up into the monster of multitasking. Human freedom, as classically defined (to think and act and choose with minimal interference by outside powers), was not a product that firms like Microsoft could offer, but they recast it as something they could provide. A product for which they could raise the demand by refining its...
Research Groups Boom in Washington - New York... →
The research institutions say the boom is fueled by three major factors: big money from Wall Street, a post-Sept. 11 sense that foreign policy matters and anger at the Bush administration.
Overhaul, Make It a Venti - New York Times →
Mr. Schultz has said he wants to refocus on the “customer experience,” recapturing some of the magic of the chain’s early years, when employees — who had heard the term barista before Starbucks came along? — made the drinks by hand and customers were excited by top-notch coffee.
graphpaper.com - Edward Tufte’s iPhone →
Tufte, argues, among other things, that many of the applications on the Apple iPhone do not adequately take advantage of the iPhone’s screen resolution and its compelling and easy-to-use zoomable UI paradigm.
Slashdot Founder Questions Crowds Wisdom - Bits -... →
“But with sites like Digg, it’s the wisdom of the crowds or the tyranny of the mob. You never know what you’re going to get.”
Can a Sandwich Be Slandered? - New York Times →
Some companies have made a sport of using advertising to bash a competing brand: Pepsi and Coke, Colgate and Crest, Miller Lite and Bud Light. It was a rivalry of this sort that compelled Quiznos, the toasted-sandwich chain, to invite the public to submit homemade commercials in a contest intended to attack a top rival, Subway. The contest rules made it clear that the videos should depict Quiznos...
nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable... →
Nextcity: The Art of the Possible :: NewMuseum.org →
The Best 50 Albums of 2007 / The Hype Machine →
Ribbit, →
WebMynd - Home →
Be Lazy! Never bookmark or save a page again. We remember everything for you.
WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites →
A new YCombinator startup called WebMynd launched today. It’s a Firefox add-on that records every website you visit and saves a virtual copy on your hard drive. The service doesn’t save just an image of the page or the URL, but the full text site. That means you can also search those virtual pages later when you are looking for something. Users can turn off recording at any time, and can delete...
A Tale Of Three Cities - TIME →
in this special report, we look at one overlooked aspect of a generation’s worth of global growth: the extent to which New York City, London, and Hong Kong, three cities linked by a shared economic culture, have come to be both examples and explanations of globalization. Connected by long-haul jets and fiber-optic cable, and spaced neatly around the globe, the three cities have (by accident...
Has Bill Gone Bull Moose? - The Caucus - Politics... →
All of which reminds us that, despite the grandfatherly white hair and portfolio of good works, Bill Clinton — like most politicians who manage to make it to the White House — has always been possessed of a killer instinct, the ability both to withstand adversity and to finish off an opponent. This is, after all, what a lot of Democrats have always loved about the Clintons. Democratic candidates...
Booksthatmakeyoudumb →
Ever read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, “Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading that.”? I know I have. Well, like any good scientist, I decided to see how well my personal experience matches reality. How might one do this?
Early tagging at Flickr + Library of Congress |... →
Poking around the photos the Library of Congress has posted at Flickr shows some of the strengths and weaknesses of social tagging.
The World Clock Project : A Community-powered... →
If you are already a Flickr user, then this is the fastest and easiest way to get your photos published in the World Clock Project. Simply tag your photo with the appropriate time (e.g. 5:35) add your photo to the World Clock Project Flickr Pool. We will automatically fetch photos out of the pool and publish it in the World Clock Project with credits to you.
D.C., Maryland and Virginia Blog Directory |... →
outside.in buzzmap for the washington post
FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS →
The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) →
http://www.roost.com/web/home.action →
Stealth Job Site NotchUp Makes Companies Pay To... →
The folks at NotchUp, a stealth startup based in Los Altos, California launching later this month, have a better idea. Founded by two Peerflix refugees, Jim Ambras and Rob Ellis, NotchUp tries to lure talented-but-complacent workers and managers into its recruitment pool by turning the job search on its head. Instead of desperate out-of-work employees going hat-in-hand to companies begging for a...
On Texting, a Question of Access or Invasion - New... →
Beginning in August 2007, the N.C.A.A. banned Division I colleges from using text messaging to recruit athletes, citing complaints from students that the practice was driving up cellphone bills and intruding on personal time.
Advancing Advanced Search - Boxes and Arrows: The... →
Getty Images Up for Sale, Could Fetch $1.5 Billion... →
“Getty Images continues to be a company in transition, adjusting from being the leading player in an oligopolistic market to being one of many players in a highly competitive market,”
Virginia Heffernan - The Medium - Television -... →
in a digital age a show cannot succeed without franchising. An author’s work can no longer exist in a vacuum, independent of hardy online extensions; indeed, a vascular system that pervades the Internet. Artists must now embrace the cultural theorists’ beloved model of the rhizome and think of their work as a horizontal stem for numberless roots and shoots — as many entry and exit points as fans...
Delicious Integrated Into Yahoo Search Results →
Yahoo is testing the integration of Delicious user generated bookmarks into Yahoo search results pages. What isn’t clear is if Delicious results are impacting search rankings, or if Delicious data is simply being integrated into the existing rankings.
Grab Just the Text from Documents with Text Mining... →
Cloverfield - Movie - Review - New York Times →
“Cloverfield” is nominally a monster movie, but mostly it’s a feature-length gimmick.
YouTubes Traffic Continues to Snowball - Bits -... →
network effects are helping YouTube outperform the growth of the overall market for online video, which itself is growing at a rapid clip. In September, Google sites accounted for 28.3 percent of all videos watched online, according to comScore. By November, Google’s share had grown by another 3 percentage points, to 31.3 percent, comScore said in a report Thursday. Google’s nearest rival, Fox...
Multimedia Makeover for F.B.I.s Most Wanted - The... →
While The Lede is prepared to concede that wanted posters need not be esthetically satisfying to accomplish their purpose, the moral of the Steve Jobs and Apple Computer story is that good design really does make a difference, even in utilitarian things.
MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Traditional Media... →
major media companies are no longer arguing over whether they should have comments under stories or blogs; instead, the debate is about how they should moderate them and even highlight the best ones in eye-catching editorial spaces. Many sites are embracing the concept of “news as a conversation,” and trying to create active conversations among reporters, editors and readers online.
Feltron Eight →
Fake Manhole-Cover Doormats | Beyond the Beyond... →
reproductions of some of the world’s great manhole covers. They’re 24” diameter, nylon flocked, super durable, indoor/outdoor floor mats
Evolve Your User Interface To Educate Your Users |... →
Complicated menu systems, alert dialog messages that lock you out of the browser and flashy but confusing layouts aren’t necessarily going to help you make conversions. The web user demographic has changed and to make your web application appeal to the masses your user interface needs to teach and to guide.
DreamHost Blog » Um, Whoops. →
When designing a program, you’ve got to make some tough decisions .. and when you really can’t decide if this is something your users will need someday, err on the side of leaving it out. Otherwise, your users will someday err on the side of your face.
Monday Inspiration: Data Visualization and... →
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics |... →
lance wyman .com →
webesteem art & design magazine : Lance Wyman :... →
lance wyman created the fascinating iconography for the mexico city subway system… Effective wayfinding symbol systems were first developed for environments dedicated to transportation such as highways, railways and airports. Successful examples that have become transportation standards include the European Road Sign and the USA Department of Transportation Symbol Sign systems. Symbols are...
NYC cloning historical trees for future - Yahoo!... →
25 “historical” trees to be cloned as part of a plan to add a million new trees to public spaces over the next decade
Featured Windows Mobile Download: Scrobble and... →
An early version of a Last.fm client for Windows Mobile has been released in the wild, giving Pocket PC and Smartphone users access to the social music service’s streaming radio (on Pocket PC at least) and custom recommendation tools through “scrobbling.”
Metafiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Metafiction is a type of fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction. It is the literary term describing fictional writing that self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in posing questions about the relationship between fiction and reality, usually, irony and self-reflection. In a sense, it can be compared to presentational theatre, that...
Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis -... →
by david foster wallace
Study names Facebook and MySpace 'types' -... →
Social networking has become so widespread that users of sites such as MySpace and Facebook can now be categorised into six specific types, according to a new report.
Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of... →
Java 1.1 library of five Treemap Algorithms
Axure RP - Axure Software Solutions - Home -... →
Top 40+ GIMP plugins →