Your Careers Site Sucks (Somebody had to tell you.)
If your company is to flourish and grow you need to be able to recruit great talent. How are you going to do that with a careers site that turns off your candidates?
EVERYTHING I Need to Know about BUSINESS I Learned from IMPROV
You learn a lot about acting when you’re performing off-the-cuff, in-the-round, and surrounded by folks armed with swords and halberds.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Freakin' Einstein
Agile Is as Agile Does
I’ve built lots of product roadmaps. It’s not hard to build one, really. You start with a sense of where you want to go—mind you, visioning’s no small thing—and then you work backward. You keep asking, “Okay, what do we need to do, what do we...
iOS9: Ads, Content-Blockers, and the Mobile Web Economy
That sound you hear is the collective woof of expelled air as tens of thousands of Internet advertisers and publishers took a hard punch to the solar plexus. Game on.
Your Careers Site Sucks (Somebody had to tell you.)
If your company is to flourish and grow you need to be able to recruit great talent. How are you going to do that with a careers site that turns off your candidates?
EVERYTHING I Need to Know about BUSINESS I Learned from IMPROV
You learn a lot about acting when you’re performing off-the-cuff, in-the-round, and surrounded by folks armed with swords and halberds.
Honor Relics, Embrace Change
I’m now in my 20th year of being a career Internet technologist. And, in the spirit of embracing change, I’m available for hire.
After billions and billions of miles…
So brave. So alone. When—finally—we do look his way he wears his heart so openly. Pluto is our solar system’s Duckie.
Is Reddit, the Internet’s Biggest Ball of Twine, Beginning to Unravel?
Last week Reddit went dark as mods reacted to the dismissal of a popular admin and a key conduit between mods and Reddit staffers.
You’re Never Too Young for a Sonic Screwdriver
Makers don’t only dream, they also learn, discover, invent, fabricate, and — often with great enthusiasm — share not only what they’ve built but what they’ve learned along the way.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Twitter
Don’t look now but Twitter is having a crisis, struggling to discover its identity. Welcome, Twitter, to Middle School, where you’re not the coolest kid in homeroom anymore.
SCAA Seattle: Winners and Losers at the Big Coffee Show
Eleven years have passed since my first trip to the Big Show that is SCAA’s conference and expo. So much has changed! So much hasn’t.
A Final Twenty-four Hours of Public Comment on Net Neutrality
Your cable company, your phone company and your wireless phone company are arguing that Net Neutrality provisions would impact their investment in new broadband capacity (and investment in their companies on Wall Street, and presumably the American way of life). This argument is false on its face. More, it gets the cause and the effect reversed: it’s not service providers that create the impetus or demand for increased speed or capacity, but innovative new applications that do.
Read moreAnyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
— Garrison Keillor
Quotable: Garrison Keillor on Church
Will Your Next Wearable Come from Google, Apple, or a Middle Schooler?
In 1990 I bought a Nintendo Power Glove. I wasn’t exactly Mattel’s target demographic: I was twenty-four years old, and I didn’t have a Nintendo game system. I bought the glove for one reason alone: to hack it, hook it up to a personal computer and control the machine by gesture, alone.
A Contagion of Negativity: Why Facebook Made Us Sad
So it turns out that, yes, we are impacted emotionally by the streams of social information we consume. Happy stories make us happy. Sad stories? Spoiler alert: they make us sad. But it’s Facebook’s manipulation of our news feeds that makes us very angry, indeed.
Is it Still Genius if We Can See the Bits that Were Scratched Out?
Last week a draft of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” sold for more than $2 million at a Sotheby’s auction. Handwritten in pencil on hotel stationary, the draft includes the songwriter’s scribbles, scratched out bits, doodles and seemingly random marginalia — a chicken, a hat, a reindeer and Mavis (Staples, of course).