LostFocus

A weblog by Dominik Schwind

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 September 17th through September 19th

Meet the Qwikster mascot! – mlkshk
RT @Mike_FTW: Meet the Qwikster mascot! via @essl
Emotional Bag Check
Oh, wow: Emotional Bag Check.
Bootstrap, from Twitter
Alexander Lebedev in Russian TV punch-up | Media | guardian.co.uk
Россия…
Lunch | pixi.li
Lunch
YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.
I am not quite sure what her name is… maybe she can repeat it again?

The manic, unbalanced voice

It was the manic, unbalanced voice of somebody on the verge of madness, trying to escape office life through the magic portal of Twitter. It was great.

Bobbie Johnson

Simple sms-blogging.


Twttr seems to be simple sms-blogging.
@dominik
Dominik Schwind

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 13th

Laravel – Clean & Classy PHP Web Development
A RESTful PHP framework. Looks interesting.
The loss of @towerbridge from a cultural point of view | Stef Lewandowski
Repressive Tolerance
Useful.
The tax haven in the heart of Britain
I did not know that about the City of London
How Tower Bridge Changed My Relationship With Twitter
Andy Budd on how the Tower Bridge mash-up was one of the first of it's kind and inspiring in that way.

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.

MaskUp

Just trying ThinkUp. It’s pretty awesome.

#dickmove


If nothing else, they’re speedy responding to criticism. The #dickbar was met with calls to switch to 3rd party apps. Solution: Kill choice.
@dhh
DHH


Favorite Tweets

Twitter is such a fleeting, temporary medium.1 I just looked at my Twitter favorites.2 Most of the stuff there is complete nonsense outside of the context of the moment.3

Let’s take for example this:


Schizophrenic colleagues I haz them. #ElectroMarketingTrick
@klicktrend
Lara Möllring

I mean, it’s obviously true, but without the context not very enlightening.


Er kuschelt mit einer überdimensionalen Haarbürste!
@schneyra
Martin Schneyra

“He is snuggling with a huge comb!” – what?


@dominik “Hey baby, I can’t date you anymore because… you have gonorrhea and I have syphillis”.
@MeiNg
Mei Ng

I don’t even know how to explain that one.


“Now a machete.” I don’t remember the context. Damn.

Addendum: Apparently that last one does not need a context.

  1. Profoundness overload. []
  2. It’s Saturday evening, I sit alone at my computer and the Charlie Sheen webcast won’t be on for another six hours. []
  3. Well, most of it is complete nonsense in the very moment, but in a different way. []

Seriously?

This is what you retweet and mark as favorite?

Stupid Nerds.

Update over breakfast

I know I’ve said I’d write a lot about what’s happening during my trip to my blog, but it looks like this is not going to happen. I do keep notes and take pictures, but usually I’m too tired to write much one I’d have the quiet time to do so.

It is pretty amazing, though, how much I miss just twittering little impressions. For example right now – I’m sitting at the hotel breakfast room, typing this on my phone. It’s rather empty, so the girl who is overseeing the whole thing, has time to woo over the baby of a guest. Which is quite an adorable scene – and it’s those little impressions like that which I could capture via short tweets but wouldn’t note down and blog about later.

Well, bummer. I’m going to have another steamed bun. Best hotel breakfast ever.

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