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Steal this Twitter feature, already
An underappreciated reason for Twitter’s success is that the service made it so easy to subscribe to things. Uniform button. One click and you’re done. Remember how hard it was before Twitter, with RSS...
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Apparently, all visitors to Wired.com made it into the...
Apparently, all visitors to Wired.com made it into the Web’s will. I feel bad, I didn’t even make it to the wake. [via Dave Winer; claim your inheritance]
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The lost Thanksgiving punch of San Francisco
Anne and I are hosting Thanksgiving for some family and friends this year, and today I went rummaging around for punch ideas. My favorite festive tipple was, of course, the one tantalizingly out of...
View Article'I should have a right to use it for evil!'
From a 2009 lecture by Douglas Crockford describing the genesis of JSON comes this anecdote involving Crockford’s “no evil” licensing scheme (for related software). Someone mentioned the tale this...
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Cleaning the house today, my wife found the directions to the...
Cleaning the house today, my wife found the directions to the NaNoWriMo afterparty where we first met going on nine years ago. I almost didn’t go because I had just come back from Thanksgiving in San...
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In Berkeley, it’s a great morning for porchblogging. And...
In Berkeley, it’s a great morning for porchblogging. And shorts! I love spring; it makes our yard look so much less trashy. Among other things.
View ArticleGawker.com, where the author is employed as a staff writer,...
[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]Gawker.com, where the author is employed as a staff writer, declined to publish this story.
View ArticleThe most liberal city in America is now caving to monstrously entitled...
The most liberal city in America is now caving to monstrously entitled corporate interests, too, just like the executive branch and everyone else. #Uplifting (Apologies to readers who despise hash...
View Article“Your future dream is a shopping scheme… I use the...
“Your future dream is a shopping scheme… I use the enemy, I use anarchy.” But so gently! The Dealerkids really know how to soft sell it.
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When people ask me why I have a “thing” for the...
When people ask me why I have a “thing” for the Japanese civil service, I say, “It’s the little things. The little things make all the difference.”
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'San Francisco is becoming Silicon Valley' -- but keeps bleeding itself
There are many reasons the payroll tax break San Francisco extended to Twitter was horrid public policy; here’s just one: San Francisco is a high cost, high service city in the mold of New York. It’s...
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Death To McDonald's Programming Books
Gruber: Hot off the O’Reilly presses: Matt Neuburg’s 834-page iOS programming tome. Oh boy: An obese time suck whose reference section will probably be obsolete by the time FedEx drops it off on my...
View Article"He was a Nobel Laureate in economics, and generally is portrayed by his...
“He was a Nobel Laureate in economics, and generally is portrayed by his commentary as a macroeconomist sympathetic to Keynesian views” - Wikipedia entry on Josiah Barlet. Oh, sorry, whoops, wrong link.
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richardturley: There will be many MANY 9/11 covers in the...
richardturley: There will be many MANY 9/11 covers in the coming weeks. I’m certain that this will not be the best one of those. But, I’m a sucker for aerial photography so I’m easily sold on this one…...
View Article"[Page view statistics] are, in particular, helpful as a counterweight to the...
“[Page view statistics] are, in particular, helpful as a counterweight to the kind of complacency that all too easily sets in at major news organizations, where you assume that what DC insiders...
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Ashton Kutcher’s special “Social Issue” of...
Ashton Kutcher’s special “Social Issue” of Details seems to have a certain theme.
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When everyone else calls you a “hopeless alcoholic”...
When everyone else calls you a “hopeless alcoholic” or whatever, Grüner Vet has your back. Eight million quietly desperate Austrians can’t be wrong!
View Article"By 1845 a full railway mania was raging. By the summer new schemes were...
“By 1845 a full railway mania was raging. By the summer new schemes were being floated at the rate of more than a dozen a week. Scrip was sold by alley men, and the stock exchange resembled a country...
View Article"For all the talk of “bubbles” and crazy valuations, I think most overlook...
“For all the talk of “bubbles” and crazy valuations, I think most overlook something very fundamental: technology continues to permeate all of our lives in ways we couldn’t imagine just yesterday.” -...
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