June 2012
1 post
“New associations and fresh ideas are more likely to come out of a varied store...”
– Insight into combinatorial creativity circa 1957. (via explore-blog)
May 2012
5 posts
“The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again… You know...”
– Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (via thatwordbumsmeout)
the understatement: Are Smart Phones Spreading... →
understatementblog:
I’ve written an article with associated charts for Technology Review, tracking the adoption rate of mobile phones and their inevitable replacement, smart phones, relative to other similar technologies. It really has been quite an astounding 30 years:
In 1982, there were 4.6 billion people in…
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
– Thoreau
April 2012
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March 2012
1 post
February 2012
5 posts
Just Like Honey by Keep Shelly In Athens shared...
January 2012
4 posts
“In 5-billion yrs the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember...”
– astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter five minutes ago. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“We believe strongly that the company is going to be reflected in the product and...”
– Design Sets Tone at Square, a Mobile Payments Start-Up - NYTimes.com (via bijan)
“If you look at the data, New York is - today - the center of the media universe....”
– “NYC’s Digital Future: A Projection” by Steve Rosenbaum, NYC Entrepreneur at Large (Huffington Post)
December 2011
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November 2011
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“studies show that encountering an obstacle in one task can elicit a more global,...”
– Need to Create? Get a Constraint
“In a world of spreadable media, there’s a deeper ethical obligation to be...”
– USC’s Henry Jenkins, at the Futures of Entertainment 5 summit, on the changing responsibilities of journalists and information purveyors (via curiositycounts)
“Brands don’t create communities, brands court communities.”
– USC’s Henry Jenkins at MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 5 summit (via curiositycounts)
“U.C. San Diego scientists in 2009 estimated the “average” American consumes 34...”
– Ethan Zuckerman wants you to eat your (news) vegetables — or at least have better information » Nieman Journalism Lab (via tigs)
“Alongside the familiar patterns of mainstream attention, there are a huge number...”
– The New Patterns of Culture: Slow, Fast & Spiky (via)
October 2011
4 posts
“The decision of whether to opt into or opt out of a product or service is...”
– frogdesign’s Jan Chipchase at PopTech 2011
“In the U.S., tablet users display the characteristics of early technology...”
– The latest ComScore findings on the smartphone and tablet market, which now accounts for 7% of total U.S. digital traffic
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“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored,...”
– Leif Enger, Peace Like A River (via bookoasis)
September 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Bob Marley & The Wailers (3)
Clipse (2)
Cold War Kids (2)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2)
Metric (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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August 2011
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July 2011
5 posts
Free! →
altnytterfarlig:
“Old marketing” is about to take ownership of both customers’ and investors’ imagination and cash flow in the “connected” space. “Free”, “discounts” and “coupons” seem to be the new digital brand.
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
4 posts
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But...”
– Steve Jobs (via brycedotvc) Learning this is a big part of becoming an adult.
I’m almost there. (via superamit)
