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Stuff that I liked in 2010 (the Product Edition)
The years is almost up so I figured I’d take a look at some of the things that I actually bought and list them. I decided to list it alphabetically …
Bending Music Borders Through Simple Technologies like Gift Cards & Air Balloons
Spotify Worldwide SWITCHED: Weather Balloon Servers Could Take Pirate Party to the Air A couple unrelated posts if combined showed an interesting pattern of circumventing the traditional ways of listening …
The Campaign for Wool’s Nice Mark
While I was reading up Next Noize’s post about Lyle & Scott Sheep Parade for The Campaign For Wool I couldn’t help but notice the great mark for the actual …
Walking Around Union Square Taking in Sukkah City
Shim Sukkah by tinder, tinker of Sagle, Idaho Star Cocoon by Volkan Alkanoglu Star Cocoon by Volkan Alkanoglu Gathering by Dale Suttle, So Sugita, and Ginna Nguyen of New York …
Looking at the Redesign of The Paris Review
I was originally going to include a note in my next Link Drop about the redesign of The Paris Review. After reading the press release that was passed on to …
Looking at Stranded Magazine & the Le Cool Travel Series
I had the pleasure of talking with Andrew Losowsky, the person behind Stranded: Stories from underneath the Icelandic Ashcloud, Stack America (something I’ve talked about in the past on the …
Why I Checked Out of #Foursquare
Last night I watched a live announcement from Facebook about what Foursquare had already done. Once the keynote presentation ended I watched Gowalla go up as the first partner and …
How do you write a post?
Typically when I start writing a blog post I’ll open up Word Press to get things started. I’ll just use their editing window pushing my ideas out. I thought that …
Getting to the Pay Wall
There’s a lot of speculation about how some news sites will start charging for their online content, typically via a subscription service or metered content intake. It’s hard to say …
Content is the New UI v1.
If we were to look at some of atomic bits of a typical piece of information that a person consumes these days online, there might be a headline with text, …
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