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For the last few months our team at Plain has been using Editorially to collaborate on blog posts, newsletters, magazine columns, interviews and much more. Now, we can't live without it. Editorially…
I'm vacationing on the beach in South Carolina with family so this week's post is a day late and a little lighter than usual. I'm looking forward to getting back at it…
This one is an instant gem, folks. Matt Gemmell writes about how the medium through which we devour content has changed from print to web and how publishers seem fixated on ways…
This has been a busy week. We've just turned on the sales engine at Barley and it has been interesting to go out and talk to potential new customers, resellers, and partners….
My friend Kyle Neath at GitHub writes about Relentless Quality and how shipping early and often doesn't have to mean a sacrifice of quality. Quality isn’t something to be sacrificed. Move fast…
Some of this we've read before, but a lot of it we haven't. Nicolas Carson published a "biography" of Mayer for Business Insider: On Monday, July 16, four days after Levinsohn’s last…
John Paczkowski in 120,000 Apps in BlackBerry World (Spoiler: 47,000 Made by One Developer) for AllThingsD: That means more than a third of those apps were published by S4BB, a developer for…
Inspired by Om Malik's What I'm Reading Today and Heather B. Armstrong's Stuff I Found While Looking Around comes my own series of posts; What I saw this week. Video: CarChat with…
As a follow-up to yesterday's post, here is Jason Fried from this past July on Why we're doing things that don't scale on Signal vs. Noise: But automation can also lead to…
The Zemanta Tech Circle: Tech Circle is a simple way to recommend highly related content from its members to the whole Circle. We’ve long been fans of a well curated blog roll,…
Remember when I said we need more ways to find good blogs and blog posts? Here's one… the always excellent Om Malik of GigaOm has a series on his personal blog called…
Paul Graham in Do Things that Don't Scale: The most common unscalable thing founders have to do at the start is to recruit users manually. Nearly all startups have to. You can't…
Pasquale D’Silva on Medium in Starting your career as an Artist on the Internet: Your immediate goal should be getting a good foundation of work in your portfolio. You don’t have clients…
Like Pamela Fox, speaking at conferences and meet ups has generally been part of my job description to help spread the word about the product or company that I'm working for. But…
Related: I'd love to see Windows Phone become the third horse in the smartphone OS race. Marco Arment in Google Blindness: Developers aren’t fools. We aren’t swayed by charismatic figureheads who try…
Fred Wilson, on _Android and iOS_: But I find myself rooting hard for Apple now. I sense the danger they are in and I don't want either smartphone OS to be so…
Bret Victor: The Future of Programming is a presentation he did for Dropbox's DBX conference earlier in July. Victor goes back-in-time to 1973 to give his presentation on what the future of…
I'm always on the lookout for new ways to deal with my ever-growing library of photos. It used to be that every time I upgraded my camera I had to worry about…
Two months ago to-the-day I wrote about turning off Push Notifications on my phone, tablet and laptop. In this area I'm still doing really, really well. I recommend this for anyone. I still…
Dave Winer in Solving problems sometimes requires work: I sent my ten steps to first post list to a VC friend. But clearly after the first step (which was go to fargo.io)…
Marco Arment finishes Lockdown, his piece on the war Facebook started and its latest casualty Google Reader, this way: We need to keep pushing forward without them, and do what we’ve always…
Late last week we started looking to fill two positions at Plain and wrote a blog post explaining what we were looking for, who would be eligible, and how to apply. We've gotten…
(I couldn't decide on the title. Sorry.) Jeremy Keith wrote a really great piece about how companies like Twitter and Facebook feel threatened by data interoperability and how this is setting a…
Marco Arment paints a picture full of opportunity in what Apple has done with iOS 7. I appreciate that he kept his opinion of whether or not he liked the design of…
Kyle Ruane and I joined Thomas Borowski on Think, Make, Sell #005: “Barley by Plain.” We talked about Plain and our recently launched product, Barley, which let people edit their websites directly…
Jason Santa Maria, on a great piece on his not-updated-often-enough blog, on innovation: What people sometimes mean when they say innovation is actually iteration—continually building on good thinking and assumptions, then, most…
This past week Kyle Ruane and I drove to Greenville, South Carolina for the Greenville Grok – a half-week long string of events and activities put together by the great folks at The Iron Yard….
I remember the first time I ran WordPress on my local computer. It was amazing. Within a few moments I was up and running with just a bit of PHP that could power hundreds…
Starting a new business requires you to do many things that you may not enjoy doing. You may end up spending a lot of time focusing on tasks that you feel are…
On March 14th I turned off Push Notifications on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I no longer get interrupted by text messages, calendar notifications, tweets, email messages, or software updates. If I want to see if…