This is the best blog post I’ve read in a long time.
http://www.borthwick.com/weblog/2008/05/04/dimensionalizing-the-web/
Some choice quotes to whet your appetite:
The spacial assumption we imposed on the web — that a site is a discrete experience that a publisher can control — maps with both a human need to impose hard edges on a dynamic, complex system but [...]
Entries Tagged as 'desultory'
Piping Data Out - How do you monetize an open platform?
May 7th, 2008 ·
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iPhone Usage By Location Survey
May 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments
I surveyed my friends with iPhones, asking them where they used their phones most. Survey says!
An overwhelming marjority of iPhone users (that I know) reported that their most frequent iPhone usage occurred while “in the john.”
Chime in with your response here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p-RCaZW1plpBiRNEmpRgkRw&email=true
April Whiskey Meetup Notes
May 2nd, 2008 ·
I am one of the organizers for a monthly whiskey tasting meetup here in NYC, and I’m just getting to recording notes from last month’s whiskey meetup. I decided that I need to start recording more notes about each meetup, because we’ve been growing quite a bit and now that we’ve been meeting for about [...]
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vim tips ( via cheat gem )
May 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
vim is a very fast text editor for unix.
$ cheat vim
vim:
Cursor movement
h - move left
j - move down
k - move up
l - move right
ctrl-f - page up
ctrl-b - page down
w - jump by start of words (punctuation considered words)
W - jump by words (spaces separate words)
e - jump to end of words (punctuation considered words)
E [...]
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Essay - Definition, Etymology, and Why this Blog is Called “Essays”
March 29th, 2008 ·
Tumblr has gotten me a good start in blogging short stuff, quotes, audios, and videos, but I think I need to start doing some longer posts. So I did yet another Wordpress install, and hopefully this time I’ll actually write some posts. (I have about 10 different things I thought of at SXSW [...]
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