February 2009
42 posts
More Debris Makes More Debris →
There’s a pretty awesome entry at the Long Now blog about the Kessler Syndrome, defined by Wikipedia as “a scenario, proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in a 1978 publication, where the…
My First Law of Metatwitter*
peterfeld:
The more a platform is used to talk about itself, the greater the barriers to its adoption beyond its core users.
*and Metatumblr
Noah: While I roughly agree, check out this graph with mentions of facebook, beer and school on Facebook …
“Media companies will never make a good living by playing the standardized,...”
– Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog » Blog Archive » Fighting commoditized display advertising
My thoughts: Interesting. I think it’s probably some combination, but publishers definitely need to be thinking more custom than they are now.
WatchKenneth from 30 Rock responds to Bobby Jindal
The Problem with Concentric Circles →
Ana hits on something that’s been bothering me for awhile: All these graphs about social media influence that show a bunch of concentric circles are wrong. She wrote: “Aside of the fact that this…
Rating Systems and Personal Rules →
Everyone has different criteria for rating, friending, following …
Rating systems are something I find myself discussing fairly frequently. Partly because the idea shows up in a lot of projects…
Blog All Open Tabs
In order of time left in my browser without reading.
Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?
Best Links of 2008
If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That
And the Money Comes Rolling In
Gambling blows your mind
In Search of Homo Economicus: Preference Consistency, Emotions, and Cognition
Core Principles
Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the...
Why Do Movies Get Snubbed? →
One thing from Nate Silver’s Oscar liveblog really stuck with me. At 8:28 he wrote this: “Discuss: the reason why Dark Knight and WALL-E weren’t nominated for Best Picture is because everyone who…
obsessivecompulsive:
Phoenix - “1901”
Yummy*
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My First Tweet Weighs a Ton →
The original intent of My First Tweet was to collect people’s first words on Twitter and then mine the data for interesting patterns. I achieved the first part, collecting over 10,000 tweets in…
Looking Down on Data →
Nicholas Felton, creator of the Feltron Annual Report and founder of Daytum had a pretty interesting interview over at the SVA Interaction Design blog where he talks about his projects and…
Following as RSS →
In November of 2007 I wrote this: “I’ve started playing with Tumblr. No idea if I’ll maintain it, but I’ve put up a site at heyitsnoah.tumblr.com. To be honest, it could end up being a lot like…
“Frind has resisted adding other commonly requested features, such as chatrooms...”
– INC (via andrewteman.org)
Hulu Blocking a Browser? →
The more I think about this Hulu/Boxee thing, the more one thing keeps bugging me: At the end of the day isn’t Boxee just another browser? I mean sure you can use it on your TV, but you could use…
“Such attention is becoming increasingly common as interactive technologies...”
– Man, it’s like one extreme or the other, either marketers are paying no attention or they’re paying too much attention. Changing your packaging because people are complaining is dumb. There is one good piece of feedback in there (“Others described the redesign as making it more...
“CBS has asserted that it is “well within its rights” to stream...”
– CBS: “Well Within Rights” to Stream Hulu Content on TV.com | Digital Media Wire
“Discuss: the reason why Dark Knight and WALL-E weren’t nominated for Best...”
– FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Oscars Liveblog
“Gawker now draws more than 3m visitors a month — four times the audience it had...”
– Housekeeping: Gawker, now incorporating Defamer
Is it me, or is Gawker sounding more and more like a regular old media property? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
Top 20 Questions of All Time →
I like facts. So this list of the 20 greatest questions of all time was bound to grab my attention (though I think maybe it’s a bit of an oversell to call them the greatest questions of all…
TV's new model? →
My friend Jared has a really interesting post up at the Naked New York blog. He specifically talks about the issue with only 10 percent of shows making it past season one: “Technology and music…
The Future Is Cheese →
There’s a pretty good Atlantic article about why the networks are turning program over from serialized to live/cheap programming. The article opens with a quote from Tim Kring, creator of the…
The City →
Growing up in Connecticut, “the city” was always New York. Of course, if you go somewhere else, though, “the city” changes. With that in mind I’ve always wanted to build something that found the…
iPhone App Analytics →
My buddy Greg posted a really great presentation full of awesome iPhone app usage analytics over at the Pinch Media blog (go full screen for some of the graphs). The data comes from the Pinch…
Hulu and Building a Brand on the Web →
It’s funny, about 20 minutes ago I was watching Jon Stewart on Boxee and thinking how amazing it was. (I was also thinking about how annoying it was that advertising hadn’t caught up with online…
Rolling a 747 →
One paragraph of this ode to the 747 blew me away: “Even then, and despite the 747’s formidable technical specification, it has always seemed a wonder that such a massive machine can actually get…
To Wrestle or Not to Wrestle →
Daily Beast has a little piece on the will he, won’t he back-and-forth going on around Mickey Rourke and Wrestlemania. In reponse to why he wouldn’t just do it, Mike Edison writes, “Perceived…
