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"Focus: It means saying no, not saying yes. Simplicity: Make complex things simple. Courage:..."

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:32:53 +1100

“Focus: It means saying no, not saying yes.
Simplicity: Make complex things simple.
Courage: Don’t hang on to ideas from the past even if they have been successful for you.
Best: If you can’t enter the market and try and be the best in it, don’t enter it.”

- http://www.tuaw.com/2011/11/21/apple-s-greg-joswiak-describes-apple-s-four-principles-of-succes/

"Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive than a sandwich?"

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:22:05 +1100

“Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive than a sandwich?”

- http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/

XKCD Online Communities 2

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:04:40 +1100

XKCD Online Communities 2

Video

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:28:47 +1000

"But just because my body is capable of birthing children, doesn’t mean I will choose to employ..."

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:09:00 +1000

“But just because my body is capable of birthing children, doesn’t mean I will choose to employ said capability. I am a person. Not a fuckin baby factory.”

- http://www.bowiebride.com/2010/09/i-am-not-getting-pregnant-stop-asking.html

“the sex and cash theory” classic Hugh

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:46:00 +1000

“the sex and cash theory”

classic Hugh

Awesome! fred-wilson: Etsy FTW pegobry: davemorin: This is so...

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:51:21 +1000

Awesome!

fred-wilson:

Etsy FTW

pegobry:

davemorin:

This is so amazing on so many levels.

blue striped bearded beanie L/XL by taraduff on Etsy

Video

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:54:22 +1000

"BitTorrent is also the only way for people without access to the big, expensive content distribution..."

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:09:02 +1000

“BitTorrent is also the only way for people without access to the big, expensive content distribution networks to distribute large amounts of data without crippling bandwidth costs. Independent film-makers and musicians are using BitTorrent today to bypass traditional distribution systems and get their work in front of viewers and listeners. This sort of collateral damage is irrelevant to the ISP.”

- A Guide to Google and Verizon’s Joint Policy for an Open Internet (or not so open) by @carlfish

"Australian politicians don’t need to learn to use social media; they’re doing a great..."

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:05:41 +1000

“Australian politicians don’t need to learn to use social media; they’re doing a great job as it is. No-one should stop these people from letting us know what they think, and once they’ve said their piece, no-one should stop them hastily trying to cover their tracks and pretend they didn’t mean it. One deleted post says more than any amount of carefully-phrased press releases ever could.”

- Social Media And Politicians: Enough (Virtual) Rope

Impressive live demo by Twilio How To Pitch A Product

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:36:57 +1000

Impressive live demo by Twilio

How To Pitch A Product

Holly Miranda: Enema (by Tool) (by shoottheplayer.com)

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:39:00 +1000

Holly Miranda: Enema (by Tool) (by shoottheplayer.com)

"We’ve got these successful things going on and we mis-perceive how we got there. Or who the..."

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:26:00 +1000

“We’ve got these successful things going on and we mis-perceive how we got there. Or who the influences are. And we draw these wrong ideas and we then make a series of mistakes which are not well grounded in reality. Which means the things that are happening now that are wrong at Pixar are already happening and I can’t see them. And I have to start with that premise. And through all the history.. there is something going on here and I don’t know what it is.”

- from a great interview with Ed Catmull from Pixar. Longish but well worth it. Check it out http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/inside-pixars-leadership/

Latency is a bitch “If you’re hosting your website overseas you...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:49:05 +1000

Latency is a bitch

“If you’re hosting your website overseas you might want to rethink. I’ve been doing some research on the true impact of hosting Australian websites in the U.S. and it’s worse than you might think.”

"The human race has survived the advent of many revolutionary technologies – including the printing..."

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:00:22 +1000

“

The human race has survived the advent of many revolutionary technologies – including the printing press, the telegraph, telephone, radio and television. Each was predicted to cause disaster to our kind and, miraculously, we appear to have survived. But, rather than the doom predicted, each of these technologies has opened up remarkable vistas of opportunity, wealth and social good for humankind.

I predict that we will adapt to the digital revolution and be as unable to imagine life without it as we can imagine life without the telephone.

”

- Social media: blurring the boundaries

themaninblue: The City-painted by *scottfacon on deviantART

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:37:18 +1000

themaninblue:

The City-painted by *scottfacon on deviantART

"Training is, quite simply, one of the highest-leverage activities a manger can perform. Consider for..."

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:20:00 +1000

“Training is, quite simply, one of the highest-leverage activities a manger can perform. Consider for a moment the possibility of your putting on a series of four lectures for members of your department. Let’s count on three hours preparation for each hour of course time—twelve hours of work in total. Say that you have ten students in your class. Next year they will work a total of about twenty thousand hours for your organization. If your training efforts result in a 1 percent improvement in you subordinates’ performance, you company will gain the equivalent of two hundred hours of work as the result of the expenditure of your twelve hours.”

- http://bhorowitz.com/2010/05/14/why-startups-should-train-their-people/

"Ten providers indicated that a total of 61 cases of illegal content had been removed. With a simple..."

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:13:25 +1000

“

Ten providers indicated that a total of 61 cases of illegal content had been removed. With a simple e-mail you can achieve a lot.

The process to shut down websites with child pornographic content does not take longer than the transmission of a blocking list. This shows the absurdity of the reasoning behind simple blocking – there is no rational reason to just block criminal content and leave it on the Internet, still accessible for everyone who uses minimal effort to circumvent the block.

What was possible for a citizens’ initiative, such as the Working Group on Internet blocking and censorship, should be even easier for the German government and law enforcement agencies and their results should by far exceed the results of AK Zensur.

”

- Delete, dont block

http://cyberlaw.org.uk/2009/05/29/germany-delete-don%E2%80%99t-block-it-works-unpolitikde/

MongoDB the new M in your LAMP stack? Probably not...

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:55:26 +1000

MongoDB the new M in your LAMP stack? Probably not...

It’s really depressing that asylum seekers arriving by...

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:36:00 +1000

It’s really depressing that asylum seekers arriving by boat is still an election issue. I really hate Australia sometimes.

Boat arrivals are a drop in the ocean

A Sad Day For Australian Democracy