January 2011
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kenyatta: Matt Haughey (Metafilter founder) at Gel 2010 As the founder of Metafilter.com, Matt Haughey has created one of the most successful and vibrant online communities in the world. At Gel 2010 he describes some of the lessons he’s learned along the way. Watch for: the black market of MeFi, the fact that 12k of 50k members (site is open, but to comment you have to be a member) are...
Jan 31st
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“It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is...”
– Edmond Jabès (via aperfectcommotion)
Jan 31st
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Jan 29th
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Stowe Boyd: Why I Am Not Going To SxSW →
stoweboyd: I have attended SxSW Interactive a few times, and I’ve found it to be a high-tech Woodstock, without the mud or the music. Just lots of people milling around, and queued up for the parties, the after parties, and the after-after parties. The selection approach for the talks is all about… Austin, that charming city, doesn’t (and shouldn’t) scale and the conference...
Jan 28th
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Cairo residents in Egypt remove passwords from... →
globalvoices: psalmlove: Fight the good fight, my Egyptian brothers This is from one of our Global Voices posts with special coverage on the Egypt Protests 2011. Glad to see this here; we’ll be posting updates as we can all day Friday. 
Jan 28th
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“Dear GVer friends.. I just wanted to note that tomorrow is a big day in Cairo,...”
– This email is from one of the GV authors to our internal listserv. We wanted to share it with you. More of our Global Voices coverage from local bloggers in the region is here. Please help us spread the word. (via globalvoices)
Jan 28th
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Jan 25th
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The Kickstarter Blog: Return to Pancake Mountain →
kickstarter: For seven years, Scott Stuckey produced the wondrous Pancake Mountain, an unparalleled ode to fun that reshaped the face of children’s programming, purely as a labor of love. Stuckey, a father of two and former music video director for the likes of REM and Minor Threat, had conceived the… You should read the whole thing on the Kickstarter blog. I love Pancake Mountain, the...
Jan 25th
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emilyqualey: poptech: Heather Knight and her colleagues at Syyn Labs got their big break when they masterminded the Rube Goldberg device for OK Go’s music video, This Too Shall Pass. We asked Heather and her crew to create a Rube Goldberg to kick off PopTech 2010. And with bated breath, we watched the apparatus come to life – with a little help from some friends.  Watch this.  Neat-O. I...
Jan 25th
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Galvanize.us: We Need Your Help! (Please) →
galvanizeus: The background: Hundreds of amazing people are part of Galvanize, hiding gifts and finding gifts hidden for them. The problem: The first screens of Galvanize, our log-in and join screens, need some love. They’re fugly. (We also really want to build the Android version! That’s next.) While we’re still testing and in a public alpha stage, everyone wants to use Galvanize as a...
Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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“at first, i thought that @corybooker’s blizzard tweets made for goodwill &...”
– This is weeks old but I just saw this, and I think it’s one of the more important things I’ve read recently. Gratitude for that. (via heif) Yup.
Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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galvanizeus: The NY Subway Map as an instrument (this is one of two posts) by Alexander Chen. “Currently HTML5/Javascript. Hopefully iPad version later on. Blog with progress at chenalexander.com - Twitter: twitter.com/​alexanderchen” (We found this on @maproomblog!) Genius. NY subway map (1972 version) with lines as strings plucked with the movement of trains.
Jan 21st
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“Thanks for the reminder! I’ve been meaning to install Flash 3.1 or newer in my...”
– No one (via neversaidaboutrestaurantwebsites)
Jan 17th
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“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963. (via looktouch)
Jan 17th
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Charlotte's Web
emilyqualey: The spider, dropping down from twig, Unwinds a thread of his devising;   A thin, premeditated rig To use in rising. And all the journey down through space, In cool descent, and loyal-hearted, He builds a ladder to the place From which he started. Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning. E.B. White,...
Jan 12th
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (via inventish)
Jan 10th
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What? Your family doesn’t dance around the garage in costumes at midnight Christmas Eve?
Jan 8th
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ZADI.TV: LIFE ONLINE: Joke; behind every great man... →
stevewoolf: wreckandsalvage: One night President Obama and his wife Michelle decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn’t too luxurious.  When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the president’s secret service if he could please speak to the First Lady in private. They obliged, and Michelle had a conversation with the...
Jan 5th
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Jan 3rd
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The New Inquiry: The Power to Choose →
thenewinquiry: At long last, the full text of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon College commencement address is once more free and available online. Read it, please. And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men… read this little excerpt. I’m starting to think more and more about how hard...
Jan 2nd
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