April 2008
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The Rise and Fall of Social Networking
Social networking is dead, but yet it carries on, blissfully unaware. Save for Facebook and all of the last-gen users still languishing on MySpace, the online social networking space remains fractured and inept. Forget Digg, Pownce, Reddit, Twitter, Jaiku, and del.icio.us, to name some of the more popular incarnations of the Web 2.0 revolution. Only the most uninspiring geek or shameless...
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But is it Art?
If I were to be caught taking photogrpahs of a half-nude 15-year-old girl, I would likely go to jail. But if Annie Liebovitz does the exact same thing for Vanity Fair, we call it next month’s spread. Thanks to our society’s hypocrisy when it comes to teenage sexuality, Miley Cyrus has officially become masturbatory fodder for god knows how many diseased minds. Disgusting.
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Jakob Lodwick & Minimum Wage
I have sat on the sidelines watching Jakob Lodwick weigh in on everything from the inefficiency of the public good to the need for any self-respecting blogger to disable their comments. I even bit my tongue as he put out a ridiculous casting call for unpaid interns to help fuel the little drama that he has going on in his apartment. Alas, his latest rant against minimum wage is the straw that...
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This could be the start of something awful...
With all of the posts about ‘unlocking your creativity’ and ‘setting free your inner child’, Tumblr is looking more and more like a self-help group for the bohemian set. This obviously scares me.
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The Online Vanity Press
Somewhere deep in the bowels of internet hell, there exists a group of people who regularly self-post the transcripts of their online chats. I remain unsure as to whether they are preserving these transcripts for the historical record, or merely for posterity. Perhaps they have chosen to record the best of what’s been thought and said in the hopes of one day jogging their memories when it...
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The 7 Things that Define My Essence
1. I am always excessively courteous when ordering at the drive-through because I need to be sure that the minimum-wage employees who are slaving over my food are in a good mood. 2. I was recently told by my boss that I was failing to see the company’s strategic vision. In my own defense, I didn’t think we had one. 3. My wife is pregnant with our first child, and while I have...
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Scoble, Productivity, and the Dangers of Living in...
Several days ago, Robert Scoble came to the brave conclusion that—wait for it—the internet might actually make us less productive. I have chosen to reply to only the most coherent parts of his courageous post:
Four weeks ago I had 5,250 emails in my inbox. Today? 10.
But who’s counting? Needless to say, if you can’t recall how many emails you had in your inbox 4 weeks...
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my new theme →
I just changed my site design over to a theme that I’ve recently been working on. The code is still very messy and I need to resolve some annoying alignment issues. If this theme hasn’t broken in your browser yet, it probably will soon…
Update: The most urgent alignment issues have been resolved for now, but your browser may still not be safe. Also, I am stupid. I should have mentioned...
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Design on Your Own Time
This is a brief reply to an interesting post from nikography that is quickly making its rounds in the tumblr community. The post focuses on the dedication of artists and, in particular, of web designers. I agree with most of the points that are raised, although on several key points I am in strong disagreement:
When I started college, I had faith that I would be in classes filled with...
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Internet Celebrities
I include most internet celebrities in this rant, but not all. There are obviously some exceptions, but the majority of internet celebrities are guilty of the following sins. I hate internet celebrities because they cannot imagine a world without their Macbooks and their wi-fi. They natter away incessantly in their insulated little worlds where everyone drinks soy lattes and fires off tweets...
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Seek Stimulation from Randomness →
“Some of the most productive creative minds rely on a periodic self-administered dose of randomness to stay stimulated. Stimulation is not only necessary when developing new ideas, but is also critical when refining solutions to a particular problem. Every brain benefits from new angles that often escape your traditional point of view.”
When will we finally realize that creativity is...
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A Modest Proposal
In the future, I would request that all April Fool’s Day shenanigans be left to the professionals. There are far too many uninspired hacks out there and, quite frankly, I don’t need the competition.