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My guess is that about 4% of selfies feature people actually looking into the camera lens rather than at the screen just below it.
Jood morning! Time to jet up and jo to work. Have a jreat day!
Thanks all for your responses to my question of Tumblr’s long-term cultural value. I’ll try to collate them into something coherent soon.
Honest question: Can anyone make an argument for the long-term cultural value of Tumblr?
Happy Tech Support Day!
Great perspective from @karenmcgrane: If pros find the web’s pace of innovation exhausting, imagine how clients feel. the-pastry-box-project.net/karen-mcgrane/…
Just emptied my overgrown Instapaper queue, realizing I will never have a shortage of good stuff to read. Fear of missing out: conquered.
No matter how often I use @TripIt, it never feels any less clunky.
Skipping what would’ve been my 9th SXSW in a row. I’ll miss seeing friends and films, but the interactive conference is just too bulky now.
Exactly 2 of the 88 people I follow on @vineapp use it in reliably interesting ways. I guess Twitter was this boring at first, too. Hmm.
“Watch our step-by-step instructional video to learn how to retrieve a forgotten sign in ID or password.”
One of the reasons I’m not especially interested in having children is that I know they’ll behave like Photoshop.
Since @letterboxd is easily the best new web product of the last few years, I upgraded to a pro account and got this: letterboxd.com/robweychert/ye…
Anyone else find that the overall YouTube experience has gotten remarkably crappy and is only getting crappier?
Airbnbeyoncé. Rdio Speedwagon. YouTubeway Army. Last.fminem. Explosions in the Skype. will.i.Amazon. Yahoobastank. #internetbands
Tumblur. Eazy-eBay. French Kickstarter. Conway Twitter. Gang of Foursquare. Hulu Reed. Air Svpply. The Edgar Winter Groupon. #internetbands
LinkedIn Park. Google Dolls. Instagram Parsons. Pandora! At the Disco. Facesbook. IMDbee Gees. Otis Reddit. Iron & Vine. #internetbands
Apparently the new HTC One phone has a pixel density of 468 ppi. Reminds me of this: onion.com/bW36oe
A concise, eloquent reminder from @wilsonminer that patience is still a virtue, even as technology moves ever faster. the-pastry-box-project.net/wilson-miner/2…
Congrats to my @GetEditorially pals on today’s launch! Writers of all shapes and sizes are going to love this. editorially.com
The only reason people use Opera is to complain about how web sites look in Opera.
Anyone else have altar boy flashbacks when they hear iOS’s “Chime” alert sound?
Big wad of pocket lint jammed all the way down my iPhone headphone jack. Tried all the recommended extraction methods to no avail. Help?
Four “correctly” misspelled artists in today’s new releases on @Rdio, all hip hop (e.g. “Little Wayne”). Disgruntled English teacher/hacker?
Anyone else have an iPad bug that brings the keyboard up on top of the active text area, covering it instead of pushing it up?
A rare moment of cleverness in the Netflix RSS feed
Hopefully this means the new episodes of Arrested Development are just around the corner.
Never much cared for Instagram anyway. Low res photos, lousy web site and search/metadata/tag support. Glad Flickr is moving forward again.
Friday’s tragedy demonstrated how, in the age of “social” media, information often moves too fast. mattbors.com/blog/2012/12/1…
Poll: Do you pronounce the @ in people’s Twitter handles?
If I had a nickel for every time I had to tell LinkedIn to stop e-mailing me, my Super PAC would be unstoppable.
According to Reddit and its unmasked über-troll “violentacrez,” free speech includes insulation from accountability. gawker.com/5950981/unmask…
Thoughts about streaming music from @elliotjaystocks (elliotjaystocks.com/blog/music-col…) and @fchimero (frankchimero.com/blog/2012/10/s…). Added my 2¢ to the former.
Just got an automated e-mail from the company squatting on windhammer.com. They’re willing to sell it for a mere $10,000! High five!
Netflix Instant was not our friend tonight. Tomorrow is another day.
Inefficiency by Design
How my web site’s lack of a CMS has made me more prolific.
There is a popular myth in geek circles which claims that the QWERTY layout standard for Latin keyboards was actually designed to slow down typing, since early typewriters were prone to jam. While this is a misunderstanding (jams were caused by the mechanical proximity of common letter pairs, not the speed of typing), it has occasionally made me wonder: could technological shortcomings that ostensibly get in the way of the user experience actually, ultimately, be… See more →
Ad block software is cool, but what I need is comment block software.
When the 3D in Apple’s new Maps app for iOS works, it is really, really cool.
Oh, Adobe Paragraph Composer, you so crazy.
Geico Geico Geico
Advertising’s grim hold on our digital economy.
A bout of insomnia last summer led me to sign up for a free trial of Hulu Plus, which would let me use my iPad to catch up on episodes of Bob’s Burgers I had missed earlier in the season. When I inevitably failed to kill the subscription before the negative option billing kicked in, I decided to make the most of the month I accidentally paid for by devouring the entire combined run of… See more →
Until I get details proving the contrary, I am regarding the new iTunes as a serious threat to my way of life. This is not a joke.
A Year of Rdio
Insights from my first year as a member of a music subscription service.
I have long been skeptical of music subscription services like Spotify and Rdio. What serious music fan would pay a monthly fee to have a remote, fallible gatekeeper between himself and a woefully incomplete music catalog? To forsake my personal collection in favor of that system would be like dumping a lifetime’s worth of home equity to move into a rental apartment in a gated community. That’s what people do when they’re getting ready to… See more →
Outsourcing
The audience-generated promise of Beck’s Song Reader.
Last month, I expressed some concerns about remix culture and the questionable value of much of its output. Shortly thereafter, as if in response, the juggernaut of skewed pop music known as Beck revealed that his next album, Song Reader, will be released exclusively as sheet music.
The songs here are as unfailingly exciting as you’d expect from their author, but if you want to hear “Do We? We Do,” or “Don’t Act Like Your Heart… See more →
So, @ATT, I am getting dangerously close to 100% calls dropped. FYI, in case you feel like being something other than an unfunny joke.
It’s great when a guy gets hacked and he’s told it’s his own fault for not living his entire life in a TSA-style dome of “secure” misery.
If I’m typing in your search field while your page is still loading, don’t erase my text when your page finishes loading. That’s just rude.
Found Facebook e-mail notifications – which are disabled – in my spam folder. Gmail knows my Facebook preferences better than Facebook does.
Wanted to port my old song reviews from iLike to @Rdio, but the former is gone and took my stuff with it. Sigh: contentsmagazine.com/data/
For an @IFTTT recipe that creates new tweets based on another user’s tweets, is there a way to skip tweets with @ mentions? /cc @bekkapalmer
Whoever you are, and whatever you do, take a few minutes to read this piece by @kissane. You’ll be glad you did. incisive.nu/2012/how-to-ki…