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Art in Willemstad

An annual event, the streets of Willemstad (Curaçao)are covered with art by well known artists: http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=109615 (See: Willemstad Word Gekleurd)

Why doing design for Facebook is a thankless job

A friend of mine hates, HATES, the new Facebook timeline. She wants to turn it off, but can’t. I happen to think the timeline is really cool, well designed, useful. On occasion it even gives me goosebumps. But. She. Hates. It. Wants to turn it off. Can’t. I...

Now that’s a nice metaphor

I love this metaphor – or is it a simile – or a malapropism – who knows: > “It’s the cloud within the sterling silver lining” – Frank Bruni in the New York Times See what he did there? It’s inside out and upside down. Cool. Forgive me, the article is ok too, but that quote jumped out at me I had to spin up the ole blog machine.

Launch Conference, Day Two

Yesterday was great. The buzz in the place is unbelievable. This place is the Launch Conference. Organized and run beautifully by Jason Calacanis (who has become much more warm and fuzzy than I remember). Here is [Rafe Needleman’s summary of day one.](http://news.cnet.com/83...

Launch Conference: Day One

The Launch Conference is starting today. It is descended from many venerable conferences, particularly like Demo. I was a fairly regular attendee at the Demo conference over the years, and so far, Launch seems to be conti...

Sandra Fluke Testimony: Compelling

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlRC0nsjtKQ&w=420&h=315]

Is this article a joke? “When Truisms are true”

I saw this article in the Sunday New York Timestoday which sta...

Letting out my Comcast frustrations

“Dear Kelley I’ve had a very bad two days with Comcast, and if you check my account you will see that I’ve used Comcast for over 20 years!! But I am now talking to Verizon. Because I don’t want to waste more time with you guys I will say this: I am glad to talk to someone serious who wants to k...

Clever iPhone app vs. the Transistor

This interesting, and I think, correct article, makes the argument that the word ‘innovation’ is being watered downand even getting cheapened. It says, about “innovation”,...

Family Values

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf9Q&w=560&h=315]

Poll: Chose the new BlogBridge icon

99designs is #1 for Button & Icon Design

Amazing article about what’s going on in Syria

In the Sunday Times (of London, I gather, but they don’t feel the need to include that in their name) I saw this outstanding article about what’s going on in Syria. (No I don’...

8 Hour Sleep is for the birds?

Do you believe that you require 8 hours of sleep to be rested and effective. Well, in this really interesting article in the BBC News it seems like that pattern might not really be the most natural.Some experiments conducted came up with some interesti...

What is Pinterest good for?

Funny thing, I like many people are trying to figure out what Pinterest is good for. Well I found a use. From yesterday’s post, you saw that I am searching for a new application icon for BlogBridge. In fact I listed a series of out/crowdsource desig...

Crowdsourcing a new BlogBridge icon

Well, it’s been about 5 years with the same (lovely) BlogBridge application icon and as we are redesigning the web site and releasing a major new release of the product, we thought, hey, it’s time to update the icon to something, ahem, a little more modern. In case you forgot (or never knew),here’s...

Lake Wobegon and Politics

Have you ever heard a politician or pundit say, with self-assurance, America is a Right of Center country. Think Newt Gingrich. Right of Center. How do we determine the center? Isn’t this a lot like Lake Wobegon, “Where all our children are above average“? I’m just sayin’…

RSS feed for for twitter

A simple question that for some reason does not have a simple answer: > “I want to follow someone’s twitter feed using an RSS reader, where is it?” Well it seems that for some reason Twitter has quite hidden it but as a public service I will share the results of my research with you. You will fi...

MapReduce Patterns and Examples

Great review article: > “In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found in the web or scientific articles. Several practical case studies are also provided. All descriptions and code snippets use the ...

What I want to see in Spotify

As you know, I am a big big fan of Spotify. Lately I’ve been playing with the Last.FM integration. It’s a handy way for me to see what new music or artists I might like to listen to. I’ve discovered plenty of new music that way, it’s great. What I would like is to be able to ask Spotify (or Last.FM...

Brilliant response to when your site gets hacked

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILhiW76B3H8&w=560&h=315]