May 2012
12 posts
“Things that are memorable up here: … Reading a book while positioned in...”
– Dragon Arrives
“I was forced to embrace this world and figure out how to use it.”
– Conan O’Brien on the ‘symbiotic relationship’ of his audience and new media | The Verge
“In the long run, people will trust Twitter more than they do Facebook. And when...”
– Facebook vs. Twitter - NYTimes.com
“These are the kind of articles where everyone scrolls through the entire page...”
– Here’s What Could Kill Facebook | TechCrunch
“Life has become really boring, even with iPads and $1 billion dollar Facebook...”
– (1) James Wang’s answer to Youth: What is it like to be a young person (10 to 18 years old) now? - Quora
“Puerto Rico escribe, educa, dice palabras de amor y mentadas de madre en...”
– Puerto Rico en Veracruz | Opinión | EL PAÍS
“The combined total of people who buy daily national newspapers is 9,002,963. The...”
– John Prescott
“He’s not taking off the hoodie, and he’s not going to NYC”
– Zuckerberg Will Ring In Facebook IPO From Menlo Park HQ On Friday | TechCrunch
“Twitter also allows ordinary citizens to shape the interactions between the...”
– Emily Parker: How The Obama Administration’s Narrative About Chen Guangcheng Unraveled, One Tweet At A Time | The New Republic
“There was an inadvertent error that stated Mr. Thompson also holds a degree in...”
– Yahoo’s Response on CEO’s Computer Science ResumeGate: “Inadvertent Error” - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD
“When you have a way to talk with thousands of strangers instantly and they can...”
– Rick Reilly: Rockies pitcher’s Twitter friendship - ESPN
April 2012
6 posts
“Despite the fact that we have the backing of wealthy funders, it’s irresponsible...”
– Forbes - How Billionaire Asteroid Miners Make Money — Without Mining Asteroids
21 + 5
“What is your five-year plan?”
Oh boy… you have no idea how much I hate that question. After I moved to San Francisco it has popped up in several conversations I’ve had with friends and coworkers. My answer is always the same: first I smile, then I take a deep breath and finally I respond with an “I don’t know”. I lie, I do have a plan. I am just too...
Things That Scare Lauren Leto: Will Google Goggles... →
thingsthatscarelaurenleto:
Google+ is a platform without personality - no sense of those integral early adopters who define the pathos of the site. Think of how Tumblr evolved, they’re one of the strongest examples out there of early adopters creating a vibrant culture. From a very close-knit circle of mostly tech kids and expanding outwards, one meme at a time. Where else can I shamelessly post...
“Cue up the righteous anger, Silicon Valley. Here comes a clueless effort by a...”
– Randi Zuckerberg and Ben Huh Bring Silicon Valley to Bravo TV - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD
“Data: Our massive data sets must become a genuine competitive advantage for...”
– It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD
March 2012
8 posts
“But the world is going app crazy. Apps apps apps. Have a website? Not good...”
– 5 Minutes on The Verge: Loren Brichter | The Verge
“When I hear anyone talking about “the power of social media”, my brain...”
– How Coldcalling Deadmau5 On Twitter Earned One Artist His Big Break | PandoDaily
“Milk is best known for, well, nothing…”
– Hiring of Kevin Rose by Google sends all the wrong signals to Silicon Valley | SiliconBeat
“I worked on Google+ as a development director and shipped a bunch of code. But...”
– MSDN Blogs
“Also was priceless when Vic asked ppl to raise their hands on things and all...”
– Google ‘s Vic Gundotra: The new version of Google knows your name | The Verge
“According to Seamless’ statistics, the highest ordering corporate user...”
– How Wall Street Bankers Use Seamless To Feast On Free Lobster, Steak, And Beer | Fast Company
“Welcome to the fucking club”
– Jon Stewart Smacks Down Rush Limbaugh Over His Sandra Fluke Comments
“This result was in itself statistically improbable. But even more difficult for...”
– Fraudulent Votes for Putin Abound in Chechnya - NYTimes.com
February 2012
15 posts
LockhartSteele.com Tumblr Outpost: An Oral-ish... →
lock:
Yesterday morning, a Twitterbot tweeted at me that Sunday marked my five-year anniversary on Twitter. Seems I signed up for the service on February 25, 2007.
Why did I sign up for Twitter on that day? So I could “live-Tweet” the occasion for Defamer, Gawker Media’s Hollywood blog, edited…
“All you need for a bubble is a steady stream of suckers.”
– Scripting News: iPhones and unprotected sex
“The first or second inversion would cause cerebral anoxia, rendering the...”
– Euthanasia Coaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“We must recover the mindset where a service used by 10,000 users, or 1,000...”
– » 24 February 2012, baked by Ben Ward @ The Pastry Box Project
“Here’s the thing: Twitter is part of the “real world.” The Internet is part of...”
– Twitter, NPR’s Morning Edition, and Dreams of Flatland | metaLAB (at) Harvard
“He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was...”
– John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 - NYTimes.com
“Quite simply, being a data scientist at Twitter is not just about data but about...”
– Kurt Smith’s answer to If I want to do Data Science, would LinkedIn or Twitter be a better place to start work? - Quora
“Apple has just revealed that Twitter is also going to be baked into the latest...”
– As OS X Mountain Lion Proves, Twitter Is Apple’s Social Network | TechCrunch
“Here’s a compositional secret. It’s so obvious and simple,...”
– Brian Brushwood - Bizarre Magic: America’s #1 College Magic Show - News - 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
“The tweet from Francis Kariuki was only his latest attempt to improve village...”
– Urgent tweet in Kenya village: Help, sheep missing
“I don’t think I’ve met anyone as humble or as hard working as Jeremy...”
– (1) Ryan Glasgow’s answer to What’s it like to play on the same basketball team as Jeremy Lin? - Quora
“Silicon Valley once was home to scientists and engineers — people who wanted to...”
– Real Dan Lyons Web Site » Blog Archive » Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool » Real Dan Lyons Web Site
“The cable companies are losing subscribers every quarter. If they want to...”
– Boxee clashes with cable companies over encryption — Online Video News
“We can wait until the world ends, and if we need to, we will apologize. In the...”
– Chevy Response to Ford on Silverado 2012 Super Bowl Ad
“Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing...”
– Zuckerberg: The Hacker Way | Om Malik
January 2012
3 posts
“There were 3.9 million tweets that day, Wednesday, about SOPA and PIPA. When...”
– Twitter’s Dick Costolo Says Twitter’s Future Is YOU! (Dive Into Media) - Liz Gannes - Dive Into Media - AllThingsD
“We are the first generation of the Age of Information. This rightfully should...”
– Best_Kept_Secret comments on This is why SOPA might be the best thing ever…
Why I Hate Android
I hate Android for the same reason that Severus Snape hates Harry Potter — the very sight reminds me of something so beautiful, that was taken from me. Except it’s worse. It’s as if Harry Potter has grown up to become Voldemort.
- parislemon
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December 2011
1 post
On design and data
Felton says the main lesson he learned from the experience of designing and iterating Timeline is that “Photoshop lies.” “You can come into a meeting with a very beautiful comp and it’s like, ‘Oh yes, we should do it that way,’” he says. “But you’re never going to know if you can do it that way until you pump in the real data and live with it for days or weeks.”
October 2011
5 posts
“The world has these judgements about what they don’t know because they...”
– Ashton Kutcher
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“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” he told Obama at the start...”
– Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, ‘You’re Headed For A One-Term Presidency’
“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of...”
– Jobs questioned authority all his life, book says | ajc.com
What Does 'Communiting' Mean??? | Guest Columnists... →
collective consciousness was a concept…
now…
it’s on your smartphone and it’s called twitter…
twitter is a physical representation of collective consciousness where you can tap into the consciousness of millions…
“We are a multi-disciplinary team of statisticians, predictive modelers, data...”
– How Obama’s data-crunching prowess may get him re-elected - CNN.com
So cool…