November 2011
2 posts
“People with above-average aptitudes — the ones we recognize as being especially...”
– So guilt over white privilege isn’t enough? We have to have guilt over mental privilege as well? This is hilarious. (via aliform)
Hiya aliform (:
I don’t think it’s about feeling guilty about it, but more about knowing that so much of it is what you do with it - a smart person making no effort...
“People with above-average aptitudes — the ones we recognize as being especially...”
– So guilt over white privilege isn’t enough? We have to have guilt over mental privilege as well? This is hilarious. (via aliform)
Hiya aliform (:
I don’t think it’s about feeling guilty about it, but more about knowing that so much of it is what you do with it - a smart person making...
March 2011
1 post
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
2 posts
“This is not about the founder of Facebook. For me, it’s about academics and...”
– Steve Perry, CNN Education Commentator, regarding Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million gift to Newark schools, destroying Facebook fanboy David Kirkpatrick’s praise for the gesture. (via gbattle)
Poor dude can just NOT catch a break. I think Zuck is the only guy who could donate $100m and have the...
August 2010
1 post
Mass Video Courses May Free Up Professors for... →
infoneer-pulse:
New York University plans to join the growing movement to publish academic material online as free, open courseware. But in addition to giving away content—something other colleges have done—NYU plans a more ambitious experiment. The university wants to explore ways to reprogram the roles of professors in large undergraduate classes, using technology to free them up for more...
July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
3 posts
iPhone 4
benkraal:
At first I was: meh.
But then I was: woah.
What made you go woah?
May 2010
2 posts
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
2 posts
Ben Kraal: Mmm... Soylent Green →
Back in the early days of what we eventually came to think of as Web 2.0, around the time Cluetrain was coming out, blogs were taking off. Kottke, Zeldman, Dooce, Mark Pilgrim and so on were all getting started. The sites were all hand-crafted, either running home-brew update scripts or just…
Yes, it’s funny, I agree completely. I wish I had more time, I feel like six to twelve...
February 2010
3 posts
January 2010
2 posts
Wither Kindle?
marc:
Obituaries are already being written for the Amazon Kindle with today’s Apple announcement of iPad and iBooks. (At least Steve Jobs gave Amazon and the Kindle some props today.) Despite the iPad’s large color touch screen, I think the reports of the Kindle’s death are premature. The Kindle will still offer major cost savings and some significant advantages for serious readers of text:
...
December 2009
1 post
The One Week Digital Cleanse
jhnmyr:
Mention to anyone with computer savvy that your laptop has somehow gotten slower over recent months and they’ll ask you the same thing: “have you defragmented your hard drive?” Defragmenting works by taking small slivers of information stored in various locations and consolidating them so that they’re in the same place on the drive and thus easier to access in larger chunks. Hard drive...
November 2009
3 posts
Readings of the Week
notational:
ninakix:
Here’s readings of the week from the first week of October… Still making my way up there.
How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition by Michael I. Posner, PhD, and Brenda Patoine Basically, my reaction when I read this was, “WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!” I was pretty excited. The article talks about how kids deeply engaging with an art actually improve their attention and...
October 2009
3 posts
The future of design thinking →
benkraal:
Erik Stolterman, Professor in Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, has a great post about design thinking inspired by Tim Brown of IDEO’s recent TED talk.
Stolterman says that he’s all for design thinking, but says:
But what I don’t really like with the presentation is that Brown makes this proposition as if it is something new and something that has not been understood...
benkraal:
I went to an internal seminar here at work the other week. It had a title like “Building a Stellar Research Career”. The research development office had invited some senior academics along to talk about how they had managed their careers. While it was nice to hear smart and successful people talk about their work, it was too high-level to be of much use. Most of the advice boiled down...
September 2009
3 posts
She Said Yes
(via crazynutjob)
CONGRATULATIONS!
August 2009
7 posts
“Much of today’s management literature focuses on identifying high-potentials;...”
– Sarah Green, writing this recent Conversation Starter at the Harvard Business Blog
Where I work, leaders are classified according to their “potential.” From the feedback I have heard, once you are evaluated as a “low potential leader” you lose any future opportunity to advance within the company....
“This is a bit of lore in interface design: The goal of a particular factory...”
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Crazy Nut Job (who has an amazing tumblog on economics you should definitely check out) made this fabulous comment on my post on Trusting Process (in fact all of the comments on that post are brilliant, if it’s at all of interest, you should check it out).
(via ninakix)
Definitely some great...
July 2009
3 posts
“Amazon basically guaranteed that I’ll never buy a Kindle last night by bending...”
– Gizmodo
DRM is for suckers!
(via ericmortensen)
Sounds like something out of “Fahrenheit 451 of the Future”.
(via tanya77)
I don’t know what the publisher was threatening, but the bad PR that the Kindle is getting for this will have a serious cost of its own. Yuck.
(via marc)
I had heard that...
GOOD | How do we achieve harmony? →
Quick Poll
innonate:
Does anyone still read their RSS feeds?
I don’t.
Yesss, I’m absolutely addicted. I can’t help it.
May 2009
6 posts
Tumblarity
designaday:
Tumblr has expanded its feature set once more, providing a page that presents some basic statistics about your tumblog. When I first looked at it, I didn’t find it at all informative, and it is still rather vague. I noticed it while writing Friday’s post, at which point my “toblarity” was 9. The thing is, it gives no indication what that number represents. 9 out of what? Is a lower...
Curse of the Social
spaceships:
rorymarinich:
There’s nothing bad about forming a community, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with wanting users to form relationships with one another. The problem is that social design sometimes takes away from the intent of a web site.
Tumblr has this problem… When it first launched, one of the larger appeals it held was that it was so ultrasimple… While Tumblr developed a...
March 2009
9 posts
SXSW: Too many townies? →
robot-heart:
seagull:elizablr:
I love Austin. There is always. Something. To. Complain. About.
Always.
I mean, hey - let’s go ahead and complain about ourselves.
This article is full of so much whining it’s almost unbelievable. “Waaaah, people who live in Austin like partying and live music, too, and wised up and realized they don’t need a wristband to experience it. NOT FAIR. ...