Technology

Felix Salmon is right in so many ways here, but his note about some user-generated content platforms being “too beautiful” as to become intimidating/a barrier to bringing quick thoughts to the web is particularly prescient.

First, if you care at all about digital content, how it works and how it’s shared, you need to study Upworthy and you need to try and understand what they do, how they do it, why, and why it works. To get a sense of all…

Facebook Turns Off Website Internally To Force Mobile Development via Fast Company.

This is a great way to force folks to think of mobile and understand why it’s…

via Dispatch: Discuss and organize your work with your team..

Apple asks to be removed from EPEAT green computer listings, because they don’t conform with their design direction. This is design thinking run amok. Apple should be designing the best all around products and environmental…

making something delightful

How Gojee Got 300,000 People To Sign Up For Its Site In A Few Short Months via Business Insider:

via The Seductive Danger Of Half Measures, by Aaron Harris on TechCrunch:

Keeping a conscious eye on what the point of a test or iteration is, not just to itself, but to your overall plan and mission how building a certain number of tutors in a given area influences…

total world destructive power

Flickr user Chris Spurgeon has some great pre-lunar presentation slides from NASA, including this chart on…