August 2010
70 posts
“The White House has a Facebook page so that it can reach out to the key audience...”
– Gov2 Prelude- 3 Cool Gov Technologies - A Healthy Information Diet - InfoVegan.com (via atmos)
“However, while candidates sidestepped foreign policy for the sake of a few...”
– Commentary: A World Away - TIME
“The “you don’t own your computer” paradigm is not merely...”
– Handwriting on the Sky - Ethics for Programmers: Primum non Nocere
Maniacal Rage: The Problem with Facebook's... →
Here’s the thing about Facebook that really gets under my skin: They are slowly incorporating the features from every other independent web application on the internet. This is not inherently a problem—companies get bigger and they begin to have the resources to widen their feature set—the issue…
It’s amazing how quickly everything about Facebook ceases to matter once you delete...
“Seeking advice is addicting and can become a proxy for action. Giving it can...”
– Frank Chimero
“A year ago, I would have thought it impossible that we would be reduced to this....”
– Small election in Australia, not many interested — Crooked Timber
“Debates over terminology and semantics are for archivists and academics. If...”
– Ryan Freitas - 35 Lessons in 35 Years
“Recognize the time value of money, and start spending appropriately.”
– Ryan Freitas - 35 Lessons in 35 Years
“Do your best to get past your regrets. Your flaws are not as close to the...”
– Ryan Freitas - 35 Lessons in 35 Years
“The order of operations for the next-gen web is a simple formula. The RIGHT data...”
– The Web Is Passing Most of You By… And You are Asleep — Technosailor.com
“Here’s the reality. The next generation of the web isn’t bullshit REAL-TIME...”
– The Web Is Passing Most of You By… And You are Asleep — Technosailor.com
“He also said there was no way to “stop the boats” as Mr Abbott had...”
– Abbott mad as a cut snake, says ‘boat-person’ Hawke
“Don’t get me wrong it has definitely not all been roses and taking lots of VC...”
– 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it’s been.
Abby Seymour: Hidden Facets exhibition, Sydney →
Hidden Facets is coming to Sydney!
Katherine Wheeler and myself are bringing our joint exhibition to Gaffa Gallery during August.
Like all good exhibitions, there will be an opening to enjoy a glass of wine with us, we’ll also have some pieces available for purchase, starting with rings and…
I’ll be there tonight!
“This is the key difference between Labor and the Coalition: Labor want us to...”
– ABC The Drum Unleashed - The imperfect politics of broadband
“Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull, and John Lasseter said, in effect, ‘The only thing...”
– What Google Could Learn From Pixar - Peter Sims - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
“It is reassuring to hear that the foxes are guarding the henhouse so diligently.”
– Charles Miller in reply to A joint policy proposal for an open Internet.
I’ve regarded ‘Don’t be Evil’ as mantric bullshit forever, so the hysteria that this is somehow Google’s twoface moment doesn’t concern me in the slightest. They’ve been dicks like every other company for ages (resolving...
Moot gives evidence
Q: And the term "rickroll" you said it tries to make people go to a site where they think it is going to be one thing, but it is a video of Rick Astley, is that right?
A: Yes.
Q: He was some kind of singer?
A: Yes.
Q: It's a joke?
A: Yes.
Source: http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/assets/poole-testimony.pdf
“A 100Mb/s link is soon filled up once Dad is watching high-definition streaming...”
– ABC The Drum Unleashed - NBN: analysts miss the point
““Winning” at Democracy is about the highly effective organization of...”
– Who will rid me of turbulent god-botherers? Not our first atheist PM
“It’s that kind of close-minded, hateful thinking that Gillard is trying to bring...”
– Who will rid me of turbulent god-botherers? Not our first atheist PM
“In what appears Kafkaesque logic, the property developers argue that because the...”
– Pavlovsk seed bank faces destruction | Environment | The Guardian
“It’s not clear that computers as we know them today – that is, desktops and...”
– Paperworks / Padworks | the human network
copycats:
Isn’t it a Pity? - Elliott Smith...
“We are Pro-Love. We are Pro-Equality. We will not tolerate discrimination. We...”
– Derek Powazek - I’m Not Pro-Gay Marriage, I’m Pro-Equality (via darren131)
