Aug 22 2010
One of the few consistently thought-provoking and enjoyable reads I have each week is Kortina’s weekly newsletter. This week he remarked on the English contingent of our office’s habit of not using umbrellas. In Betaworks, it serves as a clear demarcation between American men who find it incomprehensible to venture into the rain without protection [...]
Aug 01 2010
When stuck in a conversation with a fundamentalist who believes in the literal truth of the bible, it can occasionally be instructional to point out that there are actually more disputed versions of the bible than there are words in the bible. This is hardly unsurprising, given the multitude of different often conflicting sources that [...]
Jan 13 2010
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 [...]
Jan 06 2010
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 [...]
Jan 02 2010
(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 [...]
Oct 29 2009
I would hate to be on the other side of the debate to this guy.
Aug 12 2009
Designing For Social Traction View more documents from Joshua Porter.
Jul 18 2009
Put it in HD and full screen. Let it buffer a little first…
Jul 03 2009
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 [...]