May 2009
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May 31st
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“The best thing about friends you make on the internet is that they’re often...”
– buy her candy
May 31st
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“I got the sack (redundant, retrenched, whatever) from my job this morning. On my...”
– Just one of the posts on a 27 page thread on the AUstralian Vogue Forum about the impact of the global financial crisis: Anybody lost their job yet?
May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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May 30th
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“… we are so busy keeping tabs on everything that we never focus on...”
– Nice description of continuous partial attention in this old New York Times article. I thought of it today in the airport when I eavesdropped on business people complaining (bragging really) about how their email piles up when they are out of the office. It says much more about their neediness than...
May 29th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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Mainstream Media At It Again, Bloggers Report  →
The Onion
May 28th
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May 28th
“You must be starting to get excited about Paris now. Make sure you have your...”
– Email from my dad
May 28th
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“Even though they text 3,500 messages a week, when they walk out of their ballet...”
– Professor Sherry Turkle, an MIT psychologist, identifies a “poignant twist” on teenagers’ increased texting in NYTimes.com
May 28th
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“Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers… American...”
– “Texting May Be Taking a Toll on Teenagers,”  NYTimes.com
May 28th
May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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15 web principles
1. Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards. 2. The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less, but execute perfectly. 3. Do not attempt to do everything yourselves: link to other high-quality sites instead. Your users will thank you. Use other people’s content and...
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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“Do not invite yourself to stay with friends when you travel anymore. Presumably...”
– I so agree with this rule for those aged 25 and over
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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“The sheer abundance of “source” trend blogs, boosted by other social media, and...”
– The end of trends, what’s next?
May 26th
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“The real art of planning isn’t about brands, it’s about...”
– Russell Davies
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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On the Devil's Advocate
“We’ve all been there. The pivotal meeting where you push forward a new idea or proposal you’re passionate about. A fast paced discussion leads to an unwelling of support that seems about to reach critical mass. And then, in one disastrous moment, your hopes are dashed when someone weighs in with those fateful words: “Let me just play Devil’s Advocate for a...
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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Draw Yourself as a Teen
rocketboom: About a week ago, LiveJournal user davario posted a drawing he did of himself as a teenager. In under a week, he got over 500 responses of people’s own drawings of themselves as teens.
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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“Books ought to be so cheap that we can throw them away if we do not like them,...”
– Virginia Woolf. (via Tomorrow Museum) (via dailymeh)
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent,...”
– Charles Darwin
May 24th
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May 24th
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“The truth - that we need to stand out and to fit in - has been codified, in...”
– Oliver Burkeman on ordinariness The Guardian
May 24th