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April 28, 2013
April 28, 2013
NPR pulled no punches this morning in this takedown of beltway commentators:
I have a huge problem with— some of them are good at their job, and I’ve been looking at— there are people who have done studies, you know, who are the good prognosticators, and some of them are pretty good, but a lot of them are terrible and there is no accountability. No one ever goes back and says “oh remember how certain you were?”
haha just kidding, that was Mike Pesca talking about the NFL draft
April 28, 2013
April 27, 2013
listening to this NPR segment about how Twitter screwed up the breaking news in Boston and i can’t help but compare all those goofballs retweeting scanner reports to this byline from the Saturday morning A1 story in the Times
April 22, 2013
Tumblr is incredibly
- We’re incredibly proud of our partners’ creativity and have been constantly amazed by how well these creations can fit into our Dashboards.
- We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of the new Tumblr app!
- Dialogue about these behaviors is incredibly important and online communities can be extraordinarily helpful to people struggling with these difficult conditions.
- Online dialogue about these acts and conditions is incredibly important; this prohibition is intended to reach only those blogs that cross the line into active promotion or glorification.
- We’re incredibly sorry and appreciate your patience with us tonight.
- Through their monthly events, the NY Tech Meetup has given countless startups support from an incredibly welcoming and encouraging community.
- So today we’re incredibly proud to launch our Polish translation, making Tumblr available in nine languages!
- Incredibly wealthy felines who stack cheese.
- We’re incredibly humbled and grateful for your empathy and generosity.
- An incredibly comprehensive guide to everything music at SXSW from a local, with band reviews and party fliers for the music portion of the festival.
- This year’s conference is going to be the best yet, and we’re incredibly happy to be able to take part.
- We’re incredibly confident in our ability to scale to serve all of the visitors to your awesome blogs.
- We hit an incredibly difficult problem with the way the Queue processes handle their publishing step that forced us to unwind and rewrite a big chunk of our publishing routine.
- We’re incredibly moved by the events happening across North Africa and the Middle East, especially the recent images, videos and commentary we’ve seen on Tumblr about Egypt.
- We want you to know that we’re still right in the thick of the most comprehensive re-architecting our infrastructure has ever been through, and while you might still hit some bugs or errors this month, our incredibly capable team is working 24/7 to keep your blogs fast and stable.
- But please always know that we truly care about your work as much as you do, and we have an incredibly capable team working incredibly hard to take good care of it.
- Heather Peterson gets to make incredibly cool stuff all day and get paid for it.
- And we’re incredibly honored that Time Out featured us in their lineup of the best places to work in New York City!
- Four new incredibly special themes have joined Tumblr’s Premium Theme Garden!
- But it does take advantage of Tumblr’s publishing tools to make it incredibly easy to build a portfolio.
- And finally, despite the mess, it’s incredibly tempting to jump into a huge pile of snow whilst yelling “Cowabunga, dudes!”
- Last week we had the honor of showcasing a few of the incredibly talented filmmakers on Tumblr.
- To deal with the overwhelming volume of content that makes most real-time search incredibly unwieldy, we’ve developed a clustering engine that lets you quickly filter the 650,000 new Tumblr posts created every day, based on likes and reblogs.
- Not only are these guys remarkable developers, they have an incredibly inspiring vision for building consumer products, and we couldn’t wait to start working with them on the next suite of Tumblr/iPhone features.
- The Tumblr team worked incredibly hard to pull this together.
April 22, 2013
April 18, 2013
April 16, 2013
Ambitious clans, or individuals within clans, secured power by manipulating cosmologies to claim a closer relationship with the supernatural elite than the one enjoyed by other clans or clan leaders. Flannery and Marcus argue that this phenomenon has been pervasive throughout human history, reaching an extreme with the Egyptian pharaohs, who claimed divine status. Such manipulation wasn’t so difficult when cosmologies were passed on by word of mouth, since they could easily be modified to maintain their consistency with developments in other areas of knowledge, including technology. Not so today: Flannery and Marcus blame the printing press for the current antagonism between science and religion. Had sacred propositions continued to be transmitted orally rather than being fixed in print they would have been gradually remoulded to render them compatible with the scientific thought of Galileo and Darwin.
April 15, 2013
April 11, 2013
Three eras of currency
Commodity based, e.g. Gold
Politically based, e.g. Dollar
Math based, e.g. Bitcoin
what
April 11, 2013
The politics of the deal are so fragile that Mr. Toomey asked that one of the Democratic co-sponsors of the amendment, Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, not appear at a news conference Wednesday morning, Senate aides said. Mr. Schumer agreed, and told Mr. Manchin at the 50th-birthday party of the television host Joe Scarborough that he would not be attending.
April 8, 2013
this:
Peretti usually presents a cheerful exterior, but that kind of talk inflames his ego. “Could you make a list of cute animals that gets 5 million views?” he snapped when I mentioned Graf’s comment that night at the bar. “It’s actually really hard.”
is the new this:
“‘Thirty-three Animals Who Are Disappointed in You’ is a work of literature,” Mr. Smith said defiantly, referring to an April BuzzFeed post that has so far received 2.5 million views. “I’m totally not joking.” The author of the piece “spent like 15 hours finding images of animals that would express the particular palette of human emotion he was going for and wrote really witty captions for them,” he added. “And that in some ways is harder and more competitive than, say, political reporting.”
April 5, 2013
April 5, 2013
On the left: my hackernews account, logged in, showing Adrian’s Gawker story about the Michael Arrington abuse charges shortly after I submitted it.
On the right: another browser, logged out, not showing it.
Anyway! A pretty good object lesson in what the tech community considers “off-topic.”
March 21, 2013
Andrew McLaughlin of Digg was kind enough to respond last night to my blog post from Tuesday asking Digg to stop stealing writing from other websites. Andrew took care to explain both how Digg’s mobile apps work as well as the various difficulties facing app developers looking to provide great user experiences. He also touched on some of the long-term ideas Digg is kicking around for portable ad units.
