March 2011
23 posts
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salty sun simmered surf laps the morning shoreline summer of my dreams.
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“Amazon won’t be selling books … they will be selling their...”
– Kevin Kelly’s Satisfaction Paradox
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Twuotes →
I am personally curating quotations on this tumblelog, likewise on Twitter and Facebook.
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“Now it’s easy. Do the thing.” - Brent Simmon
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…if you don’t link to primary sources, I just don’t trust you.
— Ben Goldacre
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“You save money if you let the NYT dump weekly paper wads on your doorstep. They...”
– Dan Wineman
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Hearth Hill before dawn
dewy daffodils bedazzling in moonlight. stabbing stars in the morning mist. the hubbub river racing in shadows. old timbers creaking in reply to each step.
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middle night highway
glowing abstract rectangles hovering, in the fog. electric lit billboards on the nightway, hillside.
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Once upon a time, I reliably kept a journal; it was the spiritual pool into which I daily cast a line; it was the rippling mirror reflecting myself and my world back at me.
Things about Blogging →
“some helpful tips and tricks” - Tim Bray - Ongoing - 7 March 2011
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“They’re not offering anything to readers other than the Times’...”
– Dave Winer
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I Was Wrong About The Kindle →
The Kindle is cheap and plasticky, with a user interface that kind of sucks. But it doesn’t need to be amazing, it just needs to be good enough. And free.
I find it interesting as to what the Kindle gets right – typography on the Kindle screen is gorgeous, and the fact that it’s got battery life of close to a month helps when you’re bringing it with you on a long-haul flight. Plus – and...
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“We design pages for clicks — for movement from place to place — neglecting the...”
– Mandy Brown
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AmyPhetamine: if you don't have friends smart... →
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“TV news on the Net is no different than print media such as the New York Times....”
– Doc Searls
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“If I were vaporized by aliens tomorrow, my family would miss me, but the 1,100...”
– Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times
alaindebotton: Work only starts when the fear of... →
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skeuomorph →
a word for our times, repeatedly relevant in this era of technological revolution.
a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original.
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“If you want them to remember, you tell them a story.”
– @Rands
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The Very Rich Indie Writer →
no traditional publisher in the world right now that can offer Amanda Hocking terms that are better than what she’s currently getting, right now on the Kindle store, all on her own.
— Eli James
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“Wikipedia is best understood not as a product with an organisation behind it,...”
– Clay Shirky