July 2011
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An open letter to my boss, Steve Jobs
cnnmoneytech:
Dear Steve,
I’m writing to let you know that I’m leaving Apple. It wasn’t an easy decision, but it appears that readers have found out that you’re paying me to write positive articles about your company. I can’t hide it anymore. It’s not good for my credibility.
I mean, how could people not realize that I’m in your pocket when I write articles about how you set records in share...
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“Perhaps if you think that people with pseudonyms are “hiding...”
– Shava Nerad in the piece “To Protect and Serve” on Google+. More fuel for those who believe that G+ should allow pseudonyms.
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The Telling Story of a Once Faithful Google... →
chartier:
Oh good. Maybe Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra has the time to personally look into each erroneously cancelled account and call each wronged user from now on.
Or maybe Google could muster a sliver of its incredible engineering power and discover a clue about providing customer service.
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“There’s a very simple business reason why Google cares if they have your...”
– Dave Winer
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The Best Apps for BlogHer '11 →
Liz Henry has some excellent suggestions for the conference. Though I admit that I haven’t yet found a good solution for contact sharing. Bump seems okay, but required more rigamarole to set up than I’d like thanks to the way contacts work on HTC phones. Same with using Barcode Scanner to create a QR code.
I had better luck with my Epic 4G — the contacts program there will send...
“In the past you were what you owned. Now you are what you share.”
– Charles Leadbetter (via stoweboyd)
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My client said he was a bit of a photoshop wiz...
clientsfromhell:
So I sent him the photoshop file for a mockup to review.
Client: Do you want some hard criticism?
Me: Sure.
Client: I think the design is really good, but the checkered, gray background is busy and distracting. Just saying, it’s not how I’d do it
Face, meet palm.
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Why won't the NYT call George Tiller's...
markcoatney:
“By any reasonable measure, the assassination of Dr. Tiller was an act of domestic terrorism, defined here and pretty much anywhere else as acts of violence committed to intimidate a civilian population or a government into changing policy. Both are true in the case of Dr. Tiller’s murder. And as Sulzberger makes incredibly clear in this piece, the anti-choice community of Wichita is...
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Ratio-Changing Alert! All The Winners of the... →
changetheratio:
Pretty cool news out of Google - the three winners of the Google Science Fair this year are three verrry smart teenage girls. (Side note: Awesome on Google for doing this, what a great-sounding event.) From Google’s blog post:
“Our judges said the unifying elements of all three young women were their intellectual curiosity, their tenaciousness and their ambition to use science...
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Over 4 Days, News Corp. has Lost $4 Billion in... →
dbreunig:
One of the only major media companies to crack paid digital media is on the ropes. Combined with existing instability in the news world as the internet fragments both markets and papers*, there has never been a better time to be be or launch a news startup. (Via Bloomburg)
* We read articles mostly, not entire pubs. Much like people who buy singles from iTunes, in lieu of the entire...
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Book Country Column: The Four Best Netbooks For... →
When netbooks first hit the scene a few years ago they seemed the answer to all my prayers as a writer: small and light/portable enough to carry with me at all times; a full OS and not just a basic word processor so that both writing and editing can happen; relatively inexpensive. There had been many laptops that fulfilled one or more of those requirements before, but they were usually insanely...
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People Staring at Computers →
chartier:
An interesting project, though one that got its architect, Kyle McDonald, in trouble with the Secret Service.
via Daniel Jalkut
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“Books arranged on your bookshelves don’t care what store they came from. But on...”
– 5 Reasons Why E-Books Aren’t There Yet | Epicenter | Wired.com (via adora)
Psst, adora: Why Wired Is Wrong About eBooks
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LTE would make next-gen iPhone too fat
cnnmoneytech:
Photo: Apple, with some expert doctoring in MSPaint
The next version of the iPhone, which is expected to be unveiled in September, won’t likely come equipped with 4G-LTE capabilities, because the necessary hardware would make the iPhone too fat.
In a teardown analysis of the LTE-ready HTC Thunderbolt, IHS iSuppli found that the iPhone would need to add several new components to...
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“I had one good pickup line, and e-readers ruined it. I can no longer hit on a...”
– Lisa Lewis, writing in the NYTimes’ City Room blog on how e-readers make it harder for her to strike up conversations with strangers. - Matt (via cnnmoneytech)
Is it wrong of me to think: Quit harassing strangers, woman, and mind your own business? It’s probably wrong of me…
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What's Worse?
dbreunig:
Running a slideshow titled “The Sexiest Startup CEOs On Earth” or listing your editor’s wife as #3? (Via Business Insider, who else?)
…. ew.
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Google+ in Google Apps: Google Moving Into Work...
stoweboyd:
A user of Google+ was logged into Google with both individual and his company’s Google Apps login, and discovered that Google+ can be used — at least partially — with Google Apps:
As reported by Google Operating System, Google’s John Costigan confirmed this: “We’re actively working on making Profiles (and Google+) available for Google Apps - it should be available in the coming...
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Guinness world record for iPad typing set by... →
chartier:
I like typing on my iPad screen and I’ve been forcing myself to practice and get better at it. After all, while growing up, I always wanted to be able to type like Geordi and Data.
I wrote a few 1000+ word pieces for Macworld on my iPad. The last time I tried a typing speed test on it a few months ago, I hit 59wpm. Admittedly though, that’s with concentrating fairly hard at making...
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News Corp Hacked the Phones of Families of Dead... →
dbreunig:
Bet you didn’t think they could top erasing the voice messages from a murdered teenager’s phone…
… … … *facepalm*
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What's wrong with Microsoft, summed up in a single... →
Cory Watilo via
This is a screenshot from an official promotion video of Outlook 2010. Seriously, what a trainwreck. I still remain a Microsoft fan, but this screenshot just shows the lack of any intelligent design direction anywhere in the company.
I previously wrote about the design disconnect at Microsoft here.
Gross.
Our workplace is going to move to Office 2010 soon and I’m...
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Is The Juice Worth The Squeeze?
stoweboyd:
Paul Adams — who worked at Google and now is at Facebook — wonders if the effort involved in managing and maintaining Google+ Circles is worth it:
Paul Adams, This Is Just The Beginning
Most user experience problems can be defined with the simple equation: Is the effort I need to go through worth the perceived benefit? Is the effort of creating circles, and managing them over time,...
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Watchmarkcoatney:
chels:
I worked with the awesome David Charns yesterday on this piece about the government using Tumblr.
You may have seen the State Department’s Tumblr but there are others who are joining up, too. The National Archives runs a few (Document of the Day, the Exhibits Tumblr, and one about Our Presidents). One of my favorite things yesterday was meeting up with the ladies who blog...
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The writing's on the wall
clientsfromhell:
I’m part of a small ad agency that serves a few clients - the most important of which is a beauty brand run by women. Two women from the brand came over for a meeting. The head of our agency ran a presentation from his laptop on a large projector; it was a huge success and the clients began to discuss future advertising plans with us.
One of the clients wanted to reference...
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“As I’m browsing around Google-powered sites there’s occasionally a red...”
– The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear (via digiture)
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