Year: 2013
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Hackers and Casuals
Pats linked to this fascinating piece from Ajay Kulkarni at GroupMe talking about the challenges of designing for different audiences within the Android user base. Android, he says, is the 'Platypus of the mobile world…a complicated beast, a bizarre combination of two very different animals'. Those very different animals being the Hackers (early Android users…
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Redefining The Way We Think About Charity
A truly remarkable new TED talk from Dan Pallotta talking about how the way in which we view charities and charity giving is so fundamentally flawed and wholly limiting. Every now and then you hear a point of view that genuinely makes you reconsider the entire way in which you look at something. It doesn't…
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Speed Freak
"The Beethoven that you and I know, and that we all know, may in fact not be the Beethoven that Beethoven wanted us to know. We may be hearing his music in a way he did not intend at all." I was rather stopped in my tracks by this short Radiolab podcast about the speed…
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Post Of The Month – February 2013 – The Winner
Delighted to announce that this month's winner is Martin Weigel, whose excellent post/deck on brands, humility and indifference very narrowly beat James Caig's tale of the bottom half of culture. Well done to Martin, who is on something of a roll having won last month's vote as well. Thanks everyone for taking part.
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Post Of The Month – February 2013 – The Vote
Crikey. Yet another great list this month so thanks for the nominations. We also have a double nomination (James Caig) which is a true POTM rarity. So, our vote this month is between: Big Data – The Comedic Empty Vessel and Animal Spirits by Mark Hancock A Tale Of Humility and Indifference by Martin Weigel Keynesian Marketing…
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Post Of The Month – February 2013 – Nominations
It's time to nominate the best posts that you've read in the past month for Post Of The Month. If you read a post in February that you thought was particularly great, please leave the link in the comments. I've put up a starting list below, and once I have a few more I'll stick…
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Falling Into The Audience
I did like this new TED talk from activist-performer-singer-songwriter-blogger-provocateur (people who defy description make me happy) Amanda Palmer. She talks evocatively about the art of asking for support (financial and otherwise) from your following, and how that process can help build powerful connections with people. She calls it 'falling into the audience' which is a…
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Maria Popova on Changing Publishing Models
“If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be. … I always thought there was enough of everything to go around—that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.” Milton Glaser An insightful 20…
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Kowloon Walled City, Podcasts and Sabbaticals
After a hiatus I've suddenly (and somewhat randomly) started listening to podcasts again. The end of this intermission was marked with this episode from Roman Mars' 99% Invisible series on the subject of the Kowloon Walled City, a 6.5 acre enclave in Hong Kong that became home for 300 interconnected high rise buildings that grew organically over…