The one important exception to this dismal record is electronic brainstorming, where large groups outperform individuals; and the larger the group the better. The protection of the screen mitigates many problems of group work. This is why the Internet has yielded such wondrous collective creations. Marcel Proust called reading a “miracle of communication in the midst of solitude,” and that’s what the Internet is, too. It’s a place where we can be alone together — and this is precisely what gives it power.
I have nothing to say, really.
Fuck off.
Bookmarks for December 9th
- The new, new Twitter: 10 big takeaways – SplatF
- "one of Twitter’s strengths has always been its willingness to design for its mainstream users at the expense of its geek users"
- ray’s song :: zefrank.com
- @sebastiankeil das Video, das Du suchst, sollte sowieso nicht auf YouTube sein.
- Path
- I'll just stand here and play with the Pantone thing until I get fed.
- Once Upon – today and tomorrow
- “Once Upon” are three important contemporary web sites, recreated with technology and spirit of late 1997, according to the memories of Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied. They created a 1997 version of Google+, YouTube and facebook, all optimized for Netscape Navigator 4.03, running under Windows 95. Of course you can view them with a browser that still supports HTML Frames. I really love this little detail: the transfer speed of the server is limited to 8 kB/s («dial-up» speed).
- Rogue Amoeba | Quality Audio Software for Mac OS X
Bookmarks for November 16th through November 18th
- Redesigning the Country Selector – Baymard Institute
- was wo (und warum) sharen? – wirres.net, fachblog für irrelevanz
- Macarons, macaroons, and macaroni: The curious history – Slate Magazine
- 42 Pictures Of Dogs Playing In Leaves
- Dogs!
- MemeCats: Hide Yo’ Flasks! – Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?
- Der hat gedauert:
Bookmarks for June 13th through June 14th
- [this is aaronland] Things I Have Written Elsewhere #1305615600
- Well yes but isn’t that a bit too soon? on Twitpic
- RT @codepo8: Well yes but isn't that a bit too soon?
Okay, that was not supposed to be auto-published already. Eh, well.
Bookmarks for June 12th through June 13th
- Syrian lesbian blogger is revealed conclusively to be a married man | World news | The Guardian
- @kyels yeah, what an ass. That last sentence made me so angry.
- Nissan LEAF CARWINGS tells any RSS feed provider your current position, speed, direction, destination, etc. « Casey Halverson
- Well, the Nissan LEAF is ugly as fuck, but now I kind of want one:
- Infovore » Where’s @towerbridge?
- I can't wait until some famous Dominik finally gets access to my account here on twitter:
- On The Network
- "For crying out loud, use your head, not just your mouth."
- On The Network Manifesto
- Derek Powazek is thinking about starting a podcast or something called “On The Network” to counter all the idiocy he hears in traditional media about the internet.
The internet is over
It was the end of day two of South by Southwest Interactive, the world’s highest-profile gathering of geeks and the venture capitalists who love them, and I’d been pursuing a policy of asking those I met, perhaps a little too aggressively, what it was exactly that they did. What is “user experience”, really? What the hell is “the gamification of healthcare”? Or “geofencing”? Or “design thinking”? Or “open source government”? What is “content strategy”? No, I mean, like, specifically?
Oliver Burkeman: SXSW 2011: The internet is over
Did anything interesting happen on the internet?
A few days ago Yesterday I asked this question on Twitter:
And the results were bleak:
The more I think about it – what did really happen?
From my subjective point of view, not much happened at all. If the Dominik from 12 months ago would time-travel to now, there isn’t much that would shock / amaze / surprise him. No exciting new service to use, nothing really new. No jet packs, so to speak. I would not know what to answer if he asked: “Did I miss anything in the last year?”
Or am I completely missing something?
Everything you need to know about the internet.
Everything you need to know about the internet.
Everything? No. But it's a very, very good start.
Why Everything Sucks, Why That’s Awesome, and How It’s Changing Us
Why Everything Sucks, Why That’s Awesome, and How It’s Changing Us
Derek Powazek is writing intelligent things again.
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
"One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us'."
Spring cleaning — 12 things the world should toss out
Spring cleaning — 12 things the world should toss out
"Once an enjoyable thing becomes a meme, we stop enjoying the thing for its own sake, but consume and regurgitate our enjoyment of it as a symbol of hipness, as if to say: "I am aware of this thing's popularity — therefore I, too, exist!""
Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory
Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory
Interesting portrait of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, the main guy behind it.
A real person, a lot like you
That's the one reason why I like the internet. All the technology in the world, all the APIs and whatnot – in the end, it's about people. And the people are right there, behind their little screens, living their lives, having their hopes and dreams.
Cultivated Play: Farmville
"So we cannot simply dismiss video games and Facebook as mere ‘wastes of time.’ Instead, we are obligated to educate ourselves about them, and to try to understand what they mean, and what it means that we use them."