July 2009
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“Microsoft’s core problem is that they have lost the hearts of computer...”
– John Gruber, “Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline”
That, in a nutshell, says it all. Microsoft has become the utilitarian choice, while those passionate about technology increasingly look to Apple. The folks in Redmond have to find their way back.
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Atlas Sound with Noah Lennox —...
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A kinder, gentler philosophy of success →
Alain be Botton’s talk from TEDGlobal 2009
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Mind Share vs. Market Share →
John Gruber on the splintering alliance between Apple and Google.
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The Major Lift — “Years”
I discovered...
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“[T]he next time you’re wavering over whether to call in sick and join your...”
– Clive Thompson, “Don’t Work All the Time”
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The Stills — “Lola Stars And Stripes”
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“What the music industry never encouraged or even allowed was building an...”
– David Packman, Venrock Associates
The Rock Band Network is a notable example of such an ecosystem, but driven by the technology — not music — industry. On its own, the the music industry has thwarted nearly every effort that would allow the artists it purports to represent to build...
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Flynn Lives →
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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain...”
– Victor Hugo
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Google Latitude. Now for iPhone. [But not the way... →
The language in this post is loaded with innuendo, and would seem to be a carefully crafted shot across the bow from Google to Apple. In reading it, I’m reminded of a favorite adage:
A diplomat is a person that can tell you to go to hell in such way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Partnerships are hard work, and the Google/Apple alliance seems to be strained as of late.
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A Smarter Planet →
A blog from IBM covering their take on the “Internet of Things” (via Experientia)
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“Canada’s wireless industry is one of the weakest in the developed world. Merrill...”
– Ken Campbell, CEO, Globalive Wireless, “Wireless Wars: Barriers to new providers”
Wireless — and more generally, broadband — competition continues to be one of the greatest ways in which the machinary of the Canadian government has failed industry and its citizens. Until...
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The Rock Band Network →
It’s the App Store for bands. This is huge.
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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,...”
– Richard Feynman (via trey)
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“What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.”
– Alice Walker
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Danah Boyd on new habits in a connected world →
I also feel really badly for the info-driven teens and college students out there being told that learning can only happen when they pay attention to an audio-driven lecture in a classroom setting. I read books during my classroom (blatantly not paying attention). Imagine what would’ve happened had I been welcome to let my mind run wild on the topic at hand?
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Watch3 ways the brain creates meaning: Tom Wujec on TED.com
Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections.
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It pays to be nice →
Sex, Evolution and the Secrets of Consumerism by Geoffrey Miller
Miller’s thesis is encouraging. Basically we are nice — or at least we want to seem nice, and are impressed by niceness. Marketing would be far more successful if geared to the big six manifestations of niceness — we might call them virtues. Contrary to the general impression, marketing does not have to lead to rampant...
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The Generation M Manifesto →
Dear Old People Who Run the World,
My generation would like to break up with you.
Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it. I think we have irreconcilable differences.
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(via Putting people first)
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Grizzly Bear + Feist — “Service Bell”
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Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage... →
jackcheng:
Chris Anderson’s feature article in Wired for his new book Free (unabridged audiobook here) includes this great nugget from Cory Doctorow:
The dandelion doesn’t want to nurse a single precious copy of itself in the hopes that it will leave the nest and carefully navigate its way to the optimum growing environment, there to perpetuate the line. The dandelion just wants to be sure that...
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“Trying to make an OS out of Chrome is like saying you’re going to turn a...”
– Fake Steve Jobs
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What's most important: features, schedule or...
This is sage advice from Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital on the balancing act of shipping a technology product.
bijan:
I learned a lot of valuable lessons working with Steve Perlman at WebTV Networks and Moxi Digital.
If you worked or met with Steve you would easily agree with me that his passion is nothing but extraordinary. He is positively obsessed about building amazing products.
I learned...
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Radiohead — “How to Disappear”
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Happy birthday, America.
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Grizzly Bear — “Knife”
Recorded live...
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WatchDirty Projectors — “Stillness is the Move”
With an infectious groove, a lama and Hammer pants, what’s not to love?
When money does buy happiness →
John Tierney of The New York Times presents findings that counter or at least counter-balance the adage “money can’t buy happiness.”
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dwineman:
“Laika” by the late, lamented Moxy...
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