April 2010
What if We Made Each Decision as if it’s Our Last →
What if We Always Chose the more Interesting Option?
Where you have ended up today is the result of hundreds of thousands of discrete choices compounded over time. As a thought…
The Dark Side of the Web: Praying for Perspective... →
Besides a catchy title what the hell does it mean? My thoughts today aren’t religious or spiritual, but instead are focused on the distribution of information through…
Netflix Designs for a Darwinian Corporate Culture →
Netflix takes a bold new approach to corporate growth strategy described this slide deck:
Culture
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Rebooting Your Job →
At the end of 2008 after nearly 13 years my career hit a wall. Actually it happened long before then (~2001), but I wasn’t aware of the problem. My heart was never in it…
Lifestreaming Observer Pattern →
Extension of the URL
A project design that has proven elusive for the last month or so has been an open social web reader. The primary information format is web feeds, and the…
Facebook is a Little Shop of Horrors →
Audrey2’s now infamous line “Feed me Seymore” is how I perceive the social information flow model of Facebook. I can’t blame them, so far their strategy…
Ars Vox is Professional Blogs to Ebooks →
Early last year I spent a few weeks gathering a number of my early blog posts into an ebook format (3 Steps to Satisfaction). It took me several weeks of part time work, and…
The Freedom to Create is at the Heart of Design →
Today’s post is a critical look at design elements, in particular the artistic elements of web programming and code design. I’d like to thank Ronen for challenging me…
Hippy Capitalism →
Recent healthcare debates reminded me of a personal question about all the services that are difficult to quantify with money. How much does our society value the health and wealth of…
Twitter’s Weird Lock In →
If you’re thinking about migrating your social stream off of a platform you’ve come to the right place. After 4-5 days mostly weened (I sent a few @replies) off of original content…
Instant Utility, Optimal Execution, & Syntactic... →
As I have done all too regularly over the past few weeks, I awoke at 4am with run time and code style anxiety. Some might label this a case of premature optimization, because I’m…
Social Web Flow that Supports Open Real Time... →
Last week I made the move from originating status updates on Twitter, to a remote system that supports Pubsubhubbub and other open formats. The updates can then flow to…
The Phone’s Ringing, But We’re Too Frightened to... →
Allow me to kick this riff off with recognizing how lucky some of us are. I’m not talking about hot hands at dice, wild poker streaks or betting against a cooler (sorry Jimbo). This is…
We Swim in a Sea of White Noise →
We’re all familiar with uncorrelated static. As a kid when a broadcast station failed to tune in, I’d just get static. The image of light and dark accompanied by a fuzzy…
Social Networks: Don’t Fear the Reaper →
Blue Oyster Cult Don’t Fear the Reaper frames this post well.
Why I’m Opting out of Centralized Social Networks
As far as I can tell centralized social networks are redundant,…
The Social Web Influences Content →
Vader and Robert Scoble Hanging at Industrial Light and Magic
The Gravity of Social Topics
Like many “new bloggers”* I receive a majority of visitors from social…
The Carrot or the Stick? Daniel Pink Says Neither →
As a proto-founder and inspiration blogger Dan’s TED talk caught my interest from a couple of directions. Happiness, enthusiasm, productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction are all…
The Founder’s Dilemma: Sweet Distractions →
this post covers concentration + focus, how little of these two I have on certain days, and how much I covet them
Work Flow
To get into a good work flow on Victus Media…
Connect Islands of Value, then Get Out of the Way →
Thinking over market forces and what direction aggregate need is pushing business opportunity
Bridges are an iconic form of connection, allowing people and resources to…
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K →
No coincidences, my favorite mobile client Tweetie got picked up Twitter (Marshall’s Pro Coverage), Big Gratz to Loren Brichter
The Wheels are in Motion on the…
How Device Apps will Merge with the Web →
Each day a plethora* of new apps are written for smart phones, tablets and a great many more are written for the web. Now device applications are distinct software products from web…
Choice is an Optional Feature →
This is an important lesson learned in personal perspective blindness. For me choice is damn important. Most folks enjoy the freedom of being able to choose a product or service they…
A Dynamic Programming Language Defined by URLs →
One of the problems with modern programming languages is heavy installation. Last year I tried convincing a friend to learn some modern programming languages with me, and we couldn’t…
5-10 Years →
Startups: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Nearly without exception, every startup story includes the tremendous effort and emotional roller coaster* that founders and early…
Disqus: The Official Blog: Growing fast and... →
This past month, the Disqus network reached over 100 million unique visitors (we get our numbers from server logs, Google Analytics, and Quantcast). That’s awesome! Disqus now reaches more people than the population of Germany (82M), Vietnam (85M), or the Philippines (92M). If the Disqus network…
Restless Toys that Could be Tools →
Should Our Needs Conform to Tools, or Tools Conform to our Needs
There’s a great diversity of passionate opinion pieces on the recent tablet from Apple, my own among…
The Gilded Cage of Technology →
Technology: Revolutionary in the way it transforms our lives, but it comes at a steep price. All those bits and atoms don’t align themselves into forms of high utility,…
I fell for the iHype →
My philosophy crumbled under the hype wave of the iPad. I had to see what many of my fellow tech geeks were seeing. I had to understand precisely what value this…
