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Three cheers for Justin Williams's collection of excellent Tweetbot filters to help silence check-ins, hashtag nonsense, old-style retweets, and even anything dealing with Internet Explorer. Some are fun, most are downright vital….
A quick way to handle loading retina images on retina-capable devices which degrades rather gracefully from easily one of the biggest contributors to the betterment of the Internet, Shaun Inman: One line…
Shep McAllister over on Lifehacker: But you could try voicing a contrary opinion in a meeting, or occasionally saying no when someone asks you for a favor. I go out of my…
Horace Dediu on the iPhone's value to the market: Therefore, how to tell whether a product is over-serving a market is one of the most important and frequently asked questions I get…
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This happened outside our home-pub this past June. Well, first the boy mosquito gets all dressed up and takes a bouquet of flowers to meet the girl mosquito. She, too, has gotten…
I haven't yet had time to implement using Dropbox as a photo management app yet (maybe next week) but I wanted to file this away for when I do; a way to…
What is Facebook's mission? Mark Zuckerberg, in the company's founder letter that was included in their S-1 filing with the SEC prior to going public a few weeks ago. There is a…
This is intriguing. Stephen Hacket took a que from Frederico Viticci on ditching iPhoto/Aperture and just using directories stored on Dropbox as a way to manage photos. After reading it, I started…
Interesting thoughts from Horace Dediu. Amazon will sell as many Kindles as they make, but the number they will make will not be the most they could make. His headline just says…
David Karp, founder of the one of the most popular services of all time, Tumblr: Takes thirty employees out to dinner. Gets carded while ordering a beer. Happens to me all the…
I don't mention Amazon or the Kindle as much as I mention Apple and the iPad on my blog. But don't let that be any indication of my ignorance of how good…
Anthony Bourdain, remarking on the last season of my favorite travel show: Seven new episodes of NO RESERVATIONS left—interspersed, I’m afraid, by three (count them, THREE) shows made up of “repurposed” material—aka…
Justin Blanton, in a piece only a veteran-nerd-blogger-type like myself could enjoy all the way through, is dancing on two directions to take his blogging technology. On the one hand, he'd like…
Everyone has an echo chamber that they've unwittingly built up around them. Your interests, friends, environment, and location are all factors in determining what your experiences are, what you know, and what…
The way I use lists on Twitter is pretty straight forward. I hand-curate about a dozen lists into categories of things I'm interested in. Over the years I've seen people complain that…
Steven Spielberg: I’ve resigned myself to accepting that what the film was at the time of its creation is what it always should be for future generations. I think Steven learned a…
MG Seigler compares the weights of some leading e-readers, phones, and tablets to visualize where the iPad Mini, or Air, may stack up: As you can see, this new iPad would be…
Derek Sivers: I love that when we push push push, we expand our comfort zone. Things that used to feel intimidating now are as comfortable as home. My MO is to do,…
Shawn Blanc: For $10 month and very little energy I have a system that backs up my data redundantly, securely, and thoroughly. And I don’t have to initiate anything to make it…
This is pretty big news. Square (whom I've mentioned before) has partnered with Starbucks to bring mobile payments to every Starbucks in the United States. Square has been leading the way for…
Kyle Neath, on Pace: In Barcelona, once you’re done with the meal your server comes by to take your plates away and asks if you’d like some coffee. Encouraging you to stick…
I'd take the time to link to theinnumerable tweets and blogposts I've read about photogs being burnt out and fed up with carrying tons of photo equipment. But we're all feeling this….
Andy Adams of The Theme Foundry: I’d like to suggest that competitors like Squarespace are going to start eating WordPress’s lunch on the “ease of use” front if WordPress does not adapt….
Andre Torrez waxes on about how he's slowly coming to the realization that we all need to back away a bit from the streams of the web: I’ve been posting about this…
Jim Ray on why they made Evening Edition: Right now, there’s more “news” than ever before, but it comes in dribs and drabs disguised as news-like updates fed through the same channels…
XKCD has been one of my favorite comics. Randall Munroe – creator of XKCD and was profiled in the New York Times in 2009 – has recently launched "What if?" where he…
Om Malik has a different way to look at the success and failure of Digg: If the yardstick of success is making money for the founders, employees and the investors, then Digg…
Brian Anthony Hernandez of Mashable sums up the Neilsen study: A new Nielsen study reveals 19% of respondents prefer using Netflix to watch TV programs — up 8% since a year ago — instead…
Eric Schmidt, on Google's self-driving cars: self-driving cars should become the predominant mode of transportation in our lifetime I'm glad he said "should" but if anyone can jinx a project it is…