April 2012 Neatlinks

I’ve been feeling this way about a lot of technology lately: The Book of the Future (0 comments)

A little gem of wisdom hidden in Anil’s article about a fight in which I have no dog:

Because when I would spend my time flinging zingers at Matt Mullenweg about the merits of Movable Type vs. WordPress, you know who was winning? Mark Fucking Zuckerberg. Facebook won the blogging wars. The web became a more closed place than if either Movable Type or WordPress had evolved into the tool that powered social networking.

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Behavior modification: Take The Stairs (wait, shouldn’t it be the other way around?) (0 comments)

Love Paul Ford’s characterization of Facebook in his piece about Instagram:

Then along comes Facebook, the great alien presence that just hovers over our cities, year after year, as we wait and fear. You turn on the television and there it is, right above the Empire State Building, humming.

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This looks good: PRIDE & JOY: A Southern Foodways Alliance Film Project

“Every morning I start my day with a big cup of coffee, in my pastures. I like to be there when the sun comes up. And every evening I end my day with a seven hundred and fifty milliliter glass of wine in my pastures. I like to be there when the sun goes down. And I really don’t much care what I have to do between those two events. But it really ticks me off if I miss one of them.”

He had me at “seven hundred and fifty milliliter glass of wine”.

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Boing Boing’s Rob Beschizza on How to blog (from a talk he gave at Washington & Jefferson College about “careers in blogging”):

If ever blogging was for merely blathering on about oneself, it isn’t any more. Social networking created a better venue for personal sharing. But what some people don’t realize is that successful bloggers never did this to begin with. You’re only as interesting as the things you do, find or say. Even if you’re a fantastically gifted writer, if you make your work solely about you, you won’t just bore your readers: you’ll eventually get bored of yourself and give up.

Ouch. Not even sure how to respond to this. Linking to it here for future reference. (2 comments)

Another data point that change is afoot: Ablogalypse (0 comments)

What are “seagull trolls”?

People who fly into your blog and without knowing anything about it, sh*t all over it. Then they leave.

It’s funny, someone did that to me yesterday, but it happens so infrequently that it doesn’t really bother me. I delete the comment and get on with my life. (2 comments)

I saw a dead body this morning: Man Commits Suicide in Front of Mission Dolores (4 comments)