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In ‘Amusing ourselves to Death’ Neil Postman wrote one of the great books necessary to understand the internet. All the more impressive a feat because he wrote it in 1985. His work foreshadows emergent problems as the web begins to define its language and our culture for the first time, and just possibly points to [...]

After reading Kortina’s great list of his resolutions, I was challenged to do my own. I’ve never really been serious about resolutions before, they were always spouted half-heartedly and swiftly discarded. This year I wanted to start to really set out some major goals for myself. The intent in this is as much to exclude [...]

(Update: The awesome Ted Roden has just drawn my attention to Concentrate.app, which seems definitely worth a test drive.)
There’s a few different applications that really make a difference to my productivity at Betaworks. I thought I would share a few:
Partychat – Turning Gtalk into Yammer

One of the key issues that I’ve come across is a [...]

(via Ze Frank)

I would hate to be on the other side of the debate to this guy.

via Alastair Humphreys

Designing For Social Traction
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You don’t want to get the calculations on this wrong…

Put it in HD and full screen. Let it buffer a little first…

Twas not while England’s sword unsheathed
Put half a world to flight,
Nor while their new-built cities breathed
Secure behind her might
Not while she poured from Pole to Line
Treasure and ships and men –
These worshippers at Freedom’s shrine,
They did not quit her then!
Not till their foes were driven forth
By England o’er the main –
Not till the Frenchman from [...]

McCain is right, one can’t trust a man who has been seen in the company of criminals.

Last year I wrote about my friend John Lake, who battled his way past brain tumours, depression, suicide bids and time in mental institutions to run the London Marathon and in some way find his purpose again.
John took something from that day and, to abuse a pun, he ran with it. On September 7th at [...]