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pewinternet: As of May 2013: 91% of American adults have a cell...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:30:04 -0500

As of May 2013:

91% of American adults have a cell phone

56% of American adults have a smartphone

28% of cell owners own an Android; 25% own an iPhone; 4% own a Blackberry

34% of American adults own a tablet computer

As of January 2013:

26% of American adults own an e-reader

More mobile data: pewrsr.ch/xrBV6U

Ma'ayan Plaut: #PSUweb13 Takeaways

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:30:18 -0500

Ma'ayan Plaut: #PSUweb13 Takeaways:

maayanplaut:

The web isn’t just the web.

It never was and it never will be.

No web task happens in a vacuum. Everything is connected. Social media = IT = IA = content strategy = web. (1)

We talk a lot about the internet. Design. Content. Marketing. Mobile. Development. Audiences. All these things are…

daniel sinker: Oh my god, don't make things for "Everyone."

Thu, 30 May 2013 19:30:09 -0500

daniel sinker: Oh my god, don't make things for "Everyone.":

sinker:

From the New York Times, on the end of Karen Berger’s 30-year run at Vertigo Comics.

Mr. DiDio [co-publisher of DC Comics, which owns Vertigo] said it would be “myopic” to believe “that servicing a very small slice of our audience is the way to go ahead.”

“That’s not what we’re in the…

razorshapes: Ushio Shinohara - Box Paintings (2008)

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:30:24 -0500

razorshapes:

Ushio Shinohara - Box Paintings (2008)

explore-blog: Benjamin Franklin’s famous list of thirteen...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:30:13 -0500

explore-blog:

Benjamin Franklin’s famous list of thirteen virtues, as it appears in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin wrote the list in 1726, at the age of 20.

sunfoundation: YouTube Trends map shows most popular videos by...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:30:21 -0500

sunfoundation:

YouTube Trends map shows most popular videos by region

I don’t know about you, but when I go to YouTube, I check my subscriptions and then look at what videos are currently popular. Because you know, it’s important to stay up to date on the most current news about kittens, people getting caught doing weird things, and movie trailers. The YouTube Trends Map is another way to see what’s popular, but from a geographic and demographic point of view.

explore-blog: Linguists identify 15,000-year-old...

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:30:10 -0500

explore-blog:

Linguists identify 15,000-year-old “ultraconserved words” that even our hunter-gatherer forbearers would understand. Meanwhile, Virginia Woolf reminds us that words are meant to change.

kickstarter: A peek at a few of the tools inside the Creator...

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:30:13 -0500

kickstarter:

A peek at a few of the tools inside the Creator Dashboard, via Learn Along.

masterkfox: tastysynapse: Zen Pencils Comic: 50. NEIL GAIMAN:...

Fri, 03 May 2013 19:30:18 -0500

masterkfox:

tastysynapse:

Zen Pencils Comic: 50. NEIL GAIMAN: Make good art

Some days this quote is what keeps me going.

thingsorganizedneatly: Jeff Harris

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:30:05 -0500

thingsorganizedneatly:

Jeff Harris

"Workaholics are driven by fear, and I have not found myself in a position where I need to spend six..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:30:15 -0500

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Workaholics are driven by fear, and I have not found myself in a position where I need to spend six or eight more hours at work because I’m trying to make everything okay.

[…]

If you’re in this frame of mind and need control, being a workaholic is a socially acceptable way to try to achieve that. Your boss thinks it’s great, and you can get a raise for doing it. In the short run, it works really well because you can — at some level — control what you’re doing and keep pushing the ball forward. You get into trouble when you get better at your work, and there’s an increase in the number of people who want to interact with you and have you do more. So this kind of working method doesn’t scale— you end up exploding.

The people who are doing great art and having an impact on the world aren’t approaching their work in this way. I recently did an interview with the architect Michael Graves. Michael Graves works a lot. He’s been in a wheelchair for more than seven years. He would be excused if he decided to scale back now after what’s been an amazing career. But, instead, he’s working on a multibillion-dollar development in Singapore, etc., etc. If you look at the way Michael works, he brings a good heart and the right attitudes to his projects at all times. He is doing important work — work that changes things. But he’s not a workaholic because he’s not doing it defensively. He’s doing it productively.

”

- Seth Godin on the difference between workaholism and all-consuming purposeful work.

Also see how to avoid work and find your purpose.

(via explore-blog)

whitehouse: Getting ready for the Correspondents’...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:30:23 -0500

whitehouse:

Getting ready for the Correspondents’ Dinner.

Watch it live tonight at 10 p.m. ET on http://wh.gov/live

Blog | The Noun Project: Investigative Journalism Icons now Available

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:30:23 -0500

Blog | The Noun Project: Investigative Journalism Icons now Available:

thenounproject:

Superpacks. Drones. Gerrymandering. Dark Money. How do you quickly illustrate these concepts in a way that is meaningful and impactful to an audience of different education levels and cultural backgrounds? That was the challenge set out before a group of 60 volunteers at an Iconathon…

explore-blog: Modern Art Desserts – from Mondrian cake to...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:30:14 -0500

explore-blog:

Modern Art Desserts – from Mondrian cake to Donald Judd tomato soup, edible masterpieces by the pastry chef at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

photojojo: Andy Prokh’s day job is being an economist, but in...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:30:07 -0500

photojojo:

Andy Prokh’s day job is being an economist, but in his free time, he shoots these wonderful portraits of his daughter Catherine and their British shorthaired cat, Lilu.

A Dad’s Photos of His Daughter & the Family Cat

via leslieseuffert

"1. All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level. (Stephen Schneider) 2. Do not condemn..."

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:30:27 -0500

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1. All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level. (Stephen Schneider)

2. Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. (Dandemis)

3. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. (Francis Bacon)

4. Never fall in love with your hypothesis. (Peter Medawar)

5. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts. (Arthur Conan Doyle)

6. A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong. (Francis Crick)

7. The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that is most interesting. (Richard Feynman)

8. To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. (Charles Darwin)

9. It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. (Mark Twain)

10. Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. (Thomas Jefferson)

11. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second, it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

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- Prospero’s Precepts – 11 rules for critical thinking from history’s great minds. (via explore-blog)

daniel sinker: OpenNews: 2012 in News Code

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:30:19 -0600

daniel sinker: OpenNews: 2012 in News Code:

sinker:

In November, in advance of the announcement of our amazing slate of 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellows, I wrote a pretty thorough look back at everything the OpenNews project has accomplished in 2012. Erika Owens, our community manager, recently published a great look back at a year of our hack…

UX Archive

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:30:08 -0600

jenmyers:

bcolbow:

I may have a new favorite site.

I find myself often searching dribble for little UI details to see how other people approached those kinds of things. The great thing about this site is that it’s not just the design but screen shots progressing you through the process. You get a much broader idea of how really well built apps are designed and thought through.

This is exactly what I needed, and it’s a lovely site in itself.

wbez: This is what the Chicago accent looks like. Hear 361...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:30:06 -0600

wbez:

This is what the Chicago accent looks like. Hear 361 examples of the wide range on this feature from Curious City.

explore-blog: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captures a rare shot of...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:30:43 -0600

explore-blog:

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captures a rare shot of Saturn backlit by the sun, giving Hubble’s best a run for its money.