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Andrew Canion: I listen to a lot of podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for more than 10 years, way before they were mainstream. I used to load podcasts onto my work-supplied IBM ThinkPad and drive to work with it open on the passenger seat, playing podcasts. This was before I owned an iPod, let alone an iPhone….
Manton Reece: Micro.blog is now available to anyone. There’s a limit of 100 new sign-ups each day, so that we can better respond to feedback as the community grows. I've been using Micro.blog on the web, Mac, and iOS for a few months and the community there has been great. In fact, the vast majority of my web…
👉 Jonnie Hallman: I’m certain 90% of web apps could be replaced by spreadsheets.
Hi. You emailed me. Likely more than once. So I've sent you this URL to let you know that no, you cannot pay me for placing a link in an existing article that you somehow found on my site. It would be totally different if you wanted me to review a product, collaborate on some content, or sponsor…
Gerrit De Vynck for Bloomberg, on whether or not Squarespace should go public: Analysts and bankers have been expecting the company to go public since at least 2016. Casalena declined to comment on IPO plans but said he’s building a company capable of doing so. “We want to do this on our own time table,” he said. “We’re…
👉 Nitin Khanna: I am LOVING Instagram's new hashtag follow feature! It makes perfect sense and makes my feed that much more interesting! Now if only other social networks understood this simple idea.
An original iPhone shot – November 2009 The short story behind this photo that I've recently stumbled across is that Eliza and I were on a cruise in late-2009. I took my iPhone and she was still lugging around her DSLR. We both snapped a photo at the same time. But, I had never thought to mash them…
Gjermund Bjaanes: This post explains how smart contracts work on the Ethereum Blockchain. Related to my last. This is a good overview of Smart Contracts. Fascinating stuff.
Sasank Reddy, on the Twitter blog: Now, hundreds of thousands of threads are Tweeted every day! But this method of Tweeting, while effective and popular, can be tricky for some to create and it’s often tough to read or discover all the Tweets in a thread. That’s why we’re thrilled to share that we’re making it simpler to…
Unless you're drinking your flat whites under a rock, you're likely seeing a lot of news about Bitcoin, it's current exchange rate against the US Dollar, blockchain and it's various applications, etc. You might even be getting sick of hearing about it (or, perhaps you're sitting there earning hundreds or thousands of dollars per day from it). Either…
I'm not blogging as much. But that's just because my creative energy is being poured elsewhere. Here's what I'm up to. Download audio
Instagram: Today we’re introducing the ability to follow hashtags, giving you new ways to discover photos, videos and people on Instagram. Now it’s even easier to stay connected with the interests, hobbies, passions and communities you care about. This is an excellent feature. I won't even go into all the ways Twitter should have been first to things…
Victoria Wright on Twitter: Photo friends// are you regularly sharing your work somewhere other than on @instagram? I’m so over them deciding what I see and don’t see The thread is interesting. Most photogs point to VSCO. I think Instagram still has a long runway ahead of it. And I still think it is very, very good. However,…
Down Wyoming, Scranton, PA – April 2017
Brandy Shaul writing for Adweek: Collectively, the top 10 trending videos for 2017 have more than 633 million views and have been watched for over 40 million hours. The channels behind the top trending videos have more than 55 million subscribers in total. The most popular videos on YouTube each year are seldom the most interesting. I find…
Dan Thorp-Lancaster for Windows Central: Under the deal, the NFL will continue to use Microsoft Surface tablets for referee video reviews through the end of the 2018/2019 season, SportsPro reports. Coaches and players will also continue to use Surface tablets to review footage during games. I'm glad MSFT is sticking with this. You'll recall this gaff, perhaps. But…
Matt Navarra for The Next Web: Instagram appears to be finally working on a native Regram button. It’s a feature many users have been waiting for for some time. Currently, users wanting to reshare content have to either save the image or video to their device and re-share it from their own account, or call upon one of…
Rod Hilton, creator of the aforementioned Machete Order, in December 2015 just as The Force Awakens was released: Wow, this Machete Order thing got big! After the post first "went viral" and got mentioned on Wired.com, I started getting around 2,000 visitors to it per day, which I thought was a lot. But then in the months before…
I'm trying my hand at Instagram again. This time I've created my own filter using Snapseed which I've named ColinGram2018. I'm taking some photos I've published here and re-editing them with some cropping, blurring, and using ColinGram2018 and then publishing them on the gram. Here are a few example images I've posted so far.
Dan Moren, reporting on this tweet from Lemi Orhan Ergin: Unsurprisingly, that news has quickly rippled through the Apple community as many people—including yours truly—have verified the claim. You can test it for yourself by going to any locked System Preferences pane, trying to unlock it, and entering username rootwith no password. (The number of tries varied for…
Cabel Sasser on Twitter: After seeing the logo on cool products before, I finally looked it up: what a great index of cool products with Good Design. Not just fancy design! Fascinating list of products on the Good Design Award list. Be sure to look through Cabel's replies on Twitter.
In this video Mark and Jeff Bezos do what the two brothers do a lot, have a chat. They just so happen to be sitting in front of a large crowd and a few video cameras this time. It starts off a little slow, but stick with it. It is an enjoyable hour to get to know the…
APOD: This selfie was compiled from many smaller images — which is why the mechanical arm holding the camera is not visible. In case you're not impressed, notice this comment on Reddit by djellison who is Engineering Camera Payload Uplink Lead on Curiosity and Opportunity. This spacecraft – Opportunity – in a REALLY GOOD day – gets a total…
ESO: For the first time ever astronomers have studied an asteroid that has entered the Solar System from interstellar space. !!!!!! This created a unique problem for the naming of this object. The IAU also created a new class of objects for interstellar asteroids, with this object being the first to receive this designation. When these types of…