January 2010
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Real Virtual-Neighbours Are The Best Kind
Having a virtual way to interact with virtual neighbours is fun, but having a real place to meet, mingle, and chat with virtual neighbours is even better.
In the neighbourhood where I live, Junction (#JunctionTO), there is one local cafe that I enjoy going to almost daily now as I try to be productive in getting reading, writing and coding done as much as possible. Crema Coffee (@CremaTO) has...
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Why Do Location Sharing?
Can you please contribute your reasons for using location sharing applications?
Specifically applications like Gowalla, Foursquare, or Loopt.
How to love the iPad
kevinrose:
Kindle DX 9.7” - $489.00
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1024x768 color display upgrade - $1.00
Internet browsing upgrade - $1.00
iPod w/16GB upgrade - $1.00
Run iPhone apps upgrade - $1.00
1Gz A4 processor upgrade - $1.00
H.264 720P HD video upgrade - $1.00
Bluetooth upgrade - $1.00
10hr battery upgrade - $1.00
Multi-touch display upgrade - $1.00
Digital compass/accelerometer - $1.00
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Your cost:...
“The desktop’s over. If you didn’t see that with the iPhone, you...”
– YouTube - prhone’s Channel
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“Working in organizations means we are constantly bombarded by pressure to be...”
– Peter Block - Flawless Consulting 2000
Are any of you just able to sit down and write stuff?
“… And then I realized everybody’s full of shit.”
– Billy West
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“To all the people watching, I can never ever thank you enough for the kindness...”
– - Conan O’Brien
Good fucking quote.
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“Yesterday’s organizations were missing the burning desire to improve on...”
– Umair Haque - http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/01/the_scale_every_business_needs.html
This guy is so awesome.
“John Maeda: Technology Design = Apple?”
– http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-maeda/technology-design-apple_b_291748.html
“The Amalgamated Transit Union says it is ‘‘discouraging’’ that TTC riders did not check on the well-being of a collector at the centre of a media firestorm after he was photographed apparently asleep on the job.”
Sometimes the amount of BS you see is shocking.
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A dictated Tumblr post.
DragonDictate for the iPhone is pretty good. I can use it to post to Tumblr or to Twitter. What I really like about it though is because there’s no keyboard I have to use I don’t struggle with anything. They put a limit on how long you can record a single message though, so you have to use it bit by bit to complete an idea. In the end it’s probably still faster than typing out...
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Reblogging - Not So Much
Been feeling recently as I look over my Tumblr stream that reblogging is both a really good idea, and something that is a big crap-shoot to whether it improves my Tumblr experience or adds less desirable stuff to my stream.
Of course sharing interesting content in a more active way than just Liking a post is a great idea, it makes a lot of sense to help move content around on this massive...
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Share Your Data
A couple friends and I do this, but I’m sad that it wasn’t my idea and that it took us so long to do as a collective.
We share our Google Analytics data with each other for our various blogs and websites.
It’s been so far a great way for us to dive into different sets of data and look at how each of our sites, with different themes and audiences attract different users, that...
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If me and my friends are sharing iTunes libraries over a local network, can we temporarily merge the libraries together in some fashion so say Genius will jump back and forth and play songs that are similar?
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Ignoring Everybody Means More Time For What... →
Hugh Macleod put 40 different quotes into his slide, and each of which of them is definitely worth reading and almost a slide in and of themselves. I can only say I’ve read, and like…
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Watchthatssodigital:
If you read NOTHING else today, please please please fucking read this.
I DO realize that it’s over 100 pages long, but it’s the best thing I’ve read in SO long…it honestly inspired me to be better at what I do. Who wants to work for a company like Netflix? Yeah, I thought so.
That Roger is one persuasive guy.
davesenior asked: How did you get so cool?
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Malcolm Bastien's Ask me anything →
Tumblr just released a new feature where you can open up a public question box for your readers to submit questions to you.
I’ve just set mine up and I’m curious to see how much people will use it.
One thing I’m surprised with is how it’s not integrated as new content for the main page, but lives on a new “/ask” domain.
The Random Show w/Kevin Rose & Tim Ferriss (All...
kevinrose:
The Random Show is a series of short videos discussing, well, random topic. Topics including: travel, language learning, outsourcing, angel investing, exercise, books, technology, and other randomness. The show is hosted by Kevin Rose & Tim Ferriss, w/video and editing work done by Glenn Mcelhose.
Episode 7 (China Part 3):
Episode 6 (China Part 2):
Episode 5...
“People are rarely willing to step up and stop you, and often just waiting to...”
– Seth’s Blog: Without them
Seth's Blog: The big drop off →
This pretty much aligns with what is my personal feeling towards people’s social media behaviour.
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The Sandwich Rebuttal
It only recently clicked to me that the sort of de-facto complaint that non-users and long-time haters of Twitter have been spewing is exactly the opportunity they are unable to see.
The “I don’t care if your eating a sandwich” attitude was like a virus. Maybe many people had it because they didn’t really understand twitter besides the notion of status updates, maybe they...
Anxiety - Lightweight To-do Management →
“Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.”