In wine, there is wisdom. In beer, there is strength. In water, their is bacteria.
Oscar Wong, Founder, Owner, President, and chief cleanup guy of Highland Brewery. (via plainclothesman)
Quotes
Twitter is like golf. I feel like an idiot for doing it, but I have to admit that sometimes it’s fun.
A poem is not poetry. A designed artifact is not design.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. Lewis
According to ABC, for 395 newspapers reporting this spring, daily circulation fell 7% to 34,439,713 copies, compared with the same March period in 2008.
How greenhouse gas does the IT industry generate?
“the global IT industry generated as much greenhouse gas as the world’s airlines – about 2% of global CO2 emissions” (via the times)1
NOTES:
1) The Sunday Times, accessed April 28, 2009, http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece (page no longer available)
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In essence, [blogging/blog platforms are] a straightforward content-management system that posts updates in reverse-chronological order and allows comments and other social interactions.
Viewed as such, blogging may “die” in much the same way that personal-digital assistants (PDAs) have died. A decade ago, PDAs were the preserve of digerati who liked using electronic address books and calendars. Now they are gone, but they are also ubiquitous, as features of almost every mobile phone.
I’m embarrassed to say that since college… I’ve been so busy speechwriting for Kerry and then Barack that I haven’t been reading all the good literary stuff I used to read…
~Jon Favreau
NOTES:
1) Mark Warren, “What Obama’s 27-Year-Old Speechwriter Learned From George W. Bush,” Esquire, accessed December 20, 2008, https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a5339/barack-obamas-speech-writer-1208/
Blogging grows up
In essence, [blogging/blog platforms are] a straightforward content-management system that posts updates in reverse-chronological order and allows comments and other social interactions.
Viewed as such, blogging may “die” in much the same way that personal-digital assistants (PDAs) have died. A decade ago, PDAs were the preserve of digerati who liked using electronic address books and calendars. Now they are gone, but they are also ubiquitous, as features of almost every mobile phone.
The other day
A concert isn’t about the music
A concert isn’t about the music, is it? And a restaurant isn’t about the food.
Seth Godin1
NOTES:
1) Seth Godin, “Sing it (please S I N G I T),” August 2, 2008, Seth Godin’s Blog, accessed August 2, 2008, http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/08/sing-it-please.html (page no longer available, web site deactivated)
The Cloud
You hear a lot of talk about “The Cloud” nowadays…. But nobody seems to be talking about Power Laws.
Hugh MacLeod1
NOTES:
1) Hugh MacLeod, “the cloud’s best-kept secret,” August 1, 2008, Gaping Void, accessed August 2, 2008, http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004638.html (page not available)
I don’t watch TV
I don’t watch TV and I don’t go to meetings. You’d be amazed at the difference it makes…. I would imagine we’re going to see a rapid acceleration in the quality and meaning of things we manage to create with our new-found time. At least I hope so.
Seth Godin1
NOTES:
1) Seth Godin, “The TV dividend,” July 30, 2008, Seth Godin’s Blog, accessed August 2, 2008, http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/07/the-tv-dividend.html (page no longer available, web site deactivated)
Poetry Is Dead
Society… did not favor the reading of poetry…. By the ’90s, it was all over…. consider that poetry is the only art form where the number of people creating it is far greater than the number of people appreciating it…. People don’t possess the patience to read a poem 20 times before the sound and sense of it takes hold….
I am part of a world that apotheosizes the trendy, and poetry is just about as untrendy as it gets. I want to read books with buzz… and I can’t remember the last book of poetry that created even a dying mosquito’s worth of hum. I am also lazy, and poetry takes work.
–Bruce Wexler1
NOTES:
1) Bruce Wexler, “Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?” May 5, 2003, Newsweek, accessed July 7, 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/id/59182/page/1 (page no longer available)
The therapeutic value of blogging
writing activates a cluster of neurological pathways…. people coping with cancer diagnoses and other serious conditions are increasingly seeking—and finding—solace in the blogosphere. “Blogging undoubtedly affords similar benefits” to expressive writing, says Morgan, who wants to incorporate writing programs into supportive care for cancer patients.
Jessica Wapner, Scientific American1
NOTES:
1) Jessica Wapner, “Blogging–It’s Good for You,” June 1, 2008, Scientific American, accessed June 5, 2008, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-healthy-type
The Web never sleeps
Our always-on wired world doesn’t leave room for contemplation… Charles Bukowski once lamented that writing poems that were published soon after felt like throw-away journalism. But…. the Web never sleeps.
Jeff Gomez, Print is Dead1
NOTES:
1) Jeff Gomez, “24 Hour Posting People: Bloggers feel the pressure,” April 7, 2008, Print is Dead, accessed April 12, 2008, http://printisdeadblog.com/2008/04/07/24-hour-posting-people-bloggers-feel-the-pressure/ (page no longer available, web site deactivated)
It all ends up on the scrap heap
Every product starts out as inspiration, moves to the drafting board, the production line, and then goes into someone’s hands before ending up, finally, on the scrap heap.
Jeff Gomez, Print is Dead1
NOTES:
1) Jeff Gomez, “Our books, our shelves; Adrian Tomine’s New Yorker cover,” February 22, 2008, Print is Dead Blog, accessed April 5, 2008, http://printisdeadblog.com/2008/02/22/our-books-our-shelves-adrian-tomine%E2%80%99s-new-yorker-cover/ (page no longer available, web site deactivated)
When describing what you want in a design, make sure to use terms that don’t really mean anything. Terms like “jazz it up a bit” or “can you make it more webbish?”. “I would like the design to be beautiful” or “I prefer nice graphics, graphics that, you know, when you look at them you go: Those are nice graphics.” are other options. Don’t feel bad about it,you’ve got the right. In fact, it’s your duty because we all know thaton fullmoons, graphic designers shapeshift into werewolves.
Ways to drive a Graphic Designer mad. #5. (via yyoyoma)
My new favourite is ‘I’d like it look more designed”.
(via misssnowwhite)1
NOTE:
1) Account deactivated December 2013.
Wikipedia is not the beginning and end of research
…students don’t consult enough sources. Wikipedia is so easy and accessible that it stands out from all other reference works. Thirty years ago, students might check several encyclopedias…. Now, it’s Wikipedia first and, too often, last.
Mark Bauerlein, via The Chronicle of Higher Education. Link.
The ubiquitous Wikipedia
…the Wikipedia site was listed among the top three Google hits 100 percent of the time.
Michael Petrilli. Link.
“Better content from trusted sources”
Just because a cell phone can shoot video doesn’t mean the person operating the device has the faintest clue about building an audience.
David Burn of AdPulp on Link
Quote: Persistence is having the same goal over and over
Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying.
Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
Seth Godin. Link.
Next week, I start another 30-day Poetry Marathon… I’ll write one poem per day.
Deborah Ager. Link.
New info opiate
research shows that a brain rewards itself with a squirt of natural opiates when it comes across new information that requires interpretation
Mark Frauenfelder (via Boing Boing) Link
Coffeehouse Junkie 