28 September 2009

reminded that everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler (as per Albert Einstein).

25 September 2009

"Once you know the unknown, you also generate the ambiguous." - Merlin Mann http://ping.fm/HfXuc
"All self-help is basically Buddhism with a service mark." - @InboxZero
"Getting users, getting distribution, getting attention... that’s the single most difficult thing..." - Joi Ito http://bit.ly/FRlq4

22 September 2009

"the only thing a wrong note violates is expectation." (via @Lola)

21 September 2009

"Potters leave a rough edge on the wet clay before they wrap it in plastic for the night - it's hard to build on a smooth edge." - @Doctorow
reading Cory Doctorow's "Writing in the Age of Distraction". http://bit.ly/1BEylY

20 September 2009

"a decentralized, open, anonymous, equal Web where anybody can get to any site and share the same experience is far from a reality today."
reading @LouisGray's "The World Wide Web Isn't World Wide Neutral". http://bit.ly/17NY4x

16 September 2009

Gilder's Law: for the foreseeable future, the total bandwidth of communication systems will triple every 12 months.
"We can now harness the virtues of networked communications to... create better versions of networked communications." - Kevin Kelly
reading @Kevin2Kelly's "Feedback loops saturate networks". http://bit.ly/sZopy
(reading @JMichele Ross' "Stop Giving The Newspapers Your Advice - They Don't Need It" http://bit.ly/1a6S2Y)
The question is not “what should newspapers do?” but “how can a large institution effectively organize in response to disruptive change?”
" Institutions are a set of agreements that perpetuate a social order beyond individual intention or tenure."
"The failure of newspapers is... the hallmark of all institutions in the face of tectonic disruption." - Joshua-Michéle Ross

14 September 2009

“When you don’t have to do much before (or after) doing what you want to do, you do surprisingly more.” - John Gruber http://bit.ly/3ptupb

04 September 2009

Developer Color Picker

"A custom color picker designed specifically for developers. Makes getting colors out of Photoshop/Acorn mock-ups quick and easy. Currently supports NSColor, UIColor, CGColorRef, CSS and HTML styles." http://tinyurl.com/luzbn2