Category Archives: Links
Luca Sartoni writes How I fell into the rabbit hole: life and work at the distributed wonderland.
Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits for the cure, presented without comment. Hat tip: Kristin Grimm.
Bill McKibben writes from Among the Marchers of the climate change march the other week. Hat tip: Chip Giller.
The Internet’s Most Fascinating Newsletter Writer, Dave Pell. Still one of my favorite reads, though I don’t look at it every day because it’d make me lazy about blogging and you all would get tired of seeing “Hat tip: Dave Pell” on every post.
Luca Sartoni writes The Rules of A/B Testing by Tyler Durden. “1st Rule: You don’t talk about A/B Testing.”
You Can’t Tell This is 3D Rendered
Khoi Vinh writes about How 75% of the real-looking photographs you see in an Ikea catalog are actually 3d-rendered. Hat tip: Hafiz Rahman.
Matthew Ingram writes for Gigaom: Journalism is doing just fine, thanks — it’s mass-media business models that are ailing. Hat tip: Ben Thompson.
Tom McFarlin writes Everything Is Bloated, Nothing Is Good.
Ethan Zuckerman writes for the Atlantic on The Internet’s Original Sin, advertising.
Naval Ravikant writes on Bitcoin (and more) as The Fifth Protocol. Fantastic read, and reminds me to read Snow Crash.
Tantek writes on the 10th Anniversary of XFN.
Alx Block writes about his evolving understanding of the role of support, and the “support” label itself.
Steve Denning writes convincingly on the crumbling myth of shareholder value as the primary driver of companies.
David Cowan writes as A Contrarian Futurist, with thoughts on wearable computing and cyber warfare.
Wired has a great cover story on Audrey portfolio company SmartThings: In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One.
Marissa Mayer announces the new Yahoo hompage, on a WordPress-powered blog.
I was interviewed by Fast Company on How To Have A Virtual Meeting, which they turned into a neat article.