May 2009
42 posts
“If the news is that important, it will find me.”
—If The Message Is Important, It Will Find Me
“I don’t have a great deal of life-wisdom, but if I did my only credo would be that when life hands you strawberries, it is time to go hunting for lemons. Don’t rest on your laurels and the best time to be risk seeking is when everyone else is risk averse.”
—i2pi
“There’s an old joke that a second marriage is the triumph of optimism over experience.”
—The #1 Conversion Killer in Your Copy (And How to Beat It) — Copyblogger
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“If you really want someone to read a message now, you attach a lot of tokens, and the message pops up higher in your correspondent’s Outlook inbox.”
—Dual Perspectives Article
“In the case made famous by Levi-Strauss, when we trade glasses of wine at a French bistro, nothing has changed. We both still have a glass of wine. But something has changed. We are a “we” where before we were strangers.*”
—Gifting in a brain storm (aka swapping credit in the gift economy)
“American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008 — almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.”
—Teens texting at terrific rate
“But the real and simple reason is eBay is no longer fun. Over the years, it has lost online ground and eyeballs to pure entertainment destinations such as YouTube and social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook.”
—How Facebook, MySpace and YouTube Killed eBay
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“groups tend to spend most of their time discussing the information shared by members, which is therefore redundant, rather than discussing information known only to one or a minority of members. This is important because those groups that do share unique information tend to make better decisions.”
—Group Inefficiency // NoahBrier.com
“I think it’s an attempt at preventing what is quickly becoming the bane of any informative website’s existence: screen scraping.”
—Wolfram|Alpha and Screen Scraping
“Cultural latency is dropping to [almost] zero, at least in the more connected parts of the world.”
—Cultural Latency & The Dawning of the Information Age
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