Archive for July 23rd, 2012
Manton Reece on permanence
We should make it so there is part of the Internet that does not expire. A place where you can put stuff, write them a check, and be reasonably confident that it will stay there as long as there is human civilization on this planet.
[Nice.]
Source: Scripting News
More on Sparrow and talent acquisitions
More on Sparrow and talent acquisitions:
Don’t blame Sparrow. Blame the terrible market for email clients.
[So why is there such a terrible market for email clients. I admit I've come to loath email, because a generation of folks have been taught to abuse and misuse it. Still, you'd think that there's enough of a market, even with the "meh" if default options. I enjoyed Sparrow for the iPhone because it let me separate work email from everything else in a really easy fashion. Ah well.]
Source: Marco.org
Speed shopping
Q: What were our primitive roles, and what effect do they have on our behavior today?A: Men were hunters; women were gatherers. The hunter locks in on one thing, which is why guys have a narrow focus, whether it’s watching TV, reading the newspaper or driving. They block everything else out because, as hunters, they had to focus on the rear end of an animal. On the other hand, women, as gatherers, had to take in the whole landscape. Their field of vision is wider.
Q: How do these differences manifest themselves in a shopping mall?
A: The hunter tracks one thing. If I need a shirt, I go and kill a shirt with my credit card and drag it home. The gatherer doesn’t know what she’s going for because she doesn’t know what’s going to be ripe or in bloom. She’s open to the environment. When I go shopping with my wife, I keep bugging her about what she’s looking for, and she says, “Don’t bother me; I’ll know it when I see it.”
[Genius.]
Source: Doc Searls Weblog
Jason Alexander
Best piece I’ve read in the aftermath of the Aurora massacre. I agree with every word.
[I can't agree with every word because some of the words are factually wrong. However, I agree with the following:
"But this is not the time for reasonable people, on both sides of this issue, to be silent. We owe it to the people whose lives were ended and ruined yesterday to insist on a real discussion and hopefully on some real action.In conclusion, whoever you are and wherever you stand on this issue, I hope you have the joy of family with you today. Hold onto them and love them as best you can. Tell them what they mean to you. Yesterday, a whole bunch of them went to the movies and tonight their families are without them. Every day is precious. "
What Jason suggests is the one thing that we can do, because I do not believe that there is an answer in Washington for this problem, and never will be.]
Source: Daring Fireball
