August 2009
70 posts
Is Tumblr becoming LiveJournal? Discuss.
(via mikehudack)
If by Live Journal you mean a huge and successful community, then yeah. But there have been many other parallels ever since the start.
Infinite scrolling is incredibly unsatisfying
There, I said it.
Russia's Medvedev has a Live Journal →
To be fully precise it looks like an imported feed from blog.kremlin.ru, but still counts!
Watchgtmcknight:
Sound Remedy - Field
This video is SO rad. And it’s not only because Hype Machine makes a cameo!
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Thanks Jeff & Kelly!
Thanks to Jeff & Kelly, I was able to check out the NIN show tonight! (Which promptly blew my mind)
Part of the offer to Kelly was to switch to #cats on Tumblr and tag the post appropriately.
Done. I’ve betrayed you sharks for concert tickets.
“The top 10 traded-in vehicles were American brands and 8 of the top 10 purchased...”
– The Final Numbers on ‘Clunkers’, NYT. Whoa, plan backfired.
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Savage Love →
Re-discovering Savage Love, probably the most epic dating/relationship advice column. (via P)
Watchzoya:
infoMania’s new segment, That’s Gay, on fauxmosexuals. I know I say this every time, but damn, I’m still impressed and surprised to see something intelligent and right-on on television.
That’s because it’s not TV, it’s Current. :)
Read Write Web wants a Hype Machine iPhone app →
Aw, Marshall. We want one too, but don’t want to spend five digits to wait in the approval queue for months.
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“If you have to drive in snow, please be on the lookout for snowmen. They lack...”
– Peter Orosz, on driving in the snow at Hyperleggera, the best car-related blog I’ve ever read.
“The recent distressed exit of iLike reminds us of the need to build real value...”
– Confusing Traction With Value « Pakman’s Blog: Disruption (via jonathanmarcus)
Megaepic post by David Pakman
“They can’t make any decisions, because they don’t know what they want, and they...”
– Welcome to Your Quarterlife Crisis - EYE WEEKLY (via skidder)
The perils of having so much
Bersarin Quartett - Mehr Als Alles Andere
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jayparkinsonmd:
Healthcare’s Broken – Adding To The Relevance Of Social Media
Panelists:
Esther Dyson, EDventure Holdings http://www.edventure.com Jay Drayer, CareFlash, http://www.careflash.com Lynn Lane, Voices of Survivors http://www.voicesofsurvivors.com Jay Parkinson MD, HelloHealth http://hellohealth.com Unity Stoakes, Organized Wisdom http://www.organizedwisdom.com...
Manufacturing beliefs
Not to get into cultural relativism, but it’s incredibly interesting (and frustrating) to watch people working hard to shape and create beliefs among the public with law or marketing:
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) - Small group of diamond sellers/manufacturers gradually engineer people’s desire and assign meaning to barely-precious stones. Small group becomes massive...
Bersarin Quartett - St. Petersburg
More from the...
Bersarin Quartett - Oktober
This is beautiful
Jonathan Strauss' Blog →
This man (founder of awe.sm) blogs sparingly but with quality. Read.
Fantastically dirty. Also see video of original
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6 Steps to Kill Your Community →
A list of things that bring down communities, by Matt Mullenweg. Also, epic first two comments.
“It felt like the whole point of the party was to take as many pictures as...”
– Taylor, recounting his experience running a photo booth at a 13 yr old’s going away party.
“Engineers have a terrible intellectual weakness. ‘If it fits the...”
– Amusingly, this point is defending an absurdist position. It’s S. I. Hayakawa, in support of the Anti Digit DIaling League, that attemtpted to stop introduction of the seven digit phone numbers in the 1960s (via Matt)
Make iTunes search your library instead of the...
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
Type this in your OS X Terminal to make iTunes search your library instead of the store, when you click the little arrows next to everything. Change to “NO” to revert. More tips here, though this is my favorite.
