July 2009
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The language of the internet
Doc Searls gives a nice talk about the language and metaphors we use to describe the internet. Briefly:
Shipping metaphor
connections, loading, delivery, packets, routing, addresses, travel through the net
The net is a way to get bits from there to there
Place metaphor
sites, addresses, domains, build, architects, designers, under construction, going on the net
The net is real...
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Android home screens
Interesting to see the way different people organise their little worlds (via)
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Happy birthday Mum!
You are 50 years old…
or 600 months old
or 2,609 weeks old
or 18,263 days old
or 438,325 hours old
or 26,299,517 minutes old
or 1,577,971,040 seconds old
and today is your birthday!
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Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So, Maybe No (Stones...
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“Do you get out more value from a service than you put in?”
– Tim O’Reilly (in response to whether he was worried about Twitter being a closed platform)
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“We design the next most obvious thing”
– Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design