February 2012
4 posts
Contradiction?
They don’t want clutter, they don’t like to read, they want to be able to do things on their terms and they want it easy to find, navigate and respond to. via bevelwise.com Read that comment then click through to see the homepage. Also read the About pages…if you dare.
E. B. White on Why Brevity Is Not the Gold...
If you were to put a narrow construction on the word ‘needless,’ you would have to remove tens of thousands of words from Shakespeare, who seldom said anything in six words that could be said in twenty. Writing is not an exercise in excision, it’s a journey into sound. How about ‘tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’*? One tomorrow would suffice, but it’s the other two that have made the thing...
Great New Thing: The Mikes on Mics Podcast
Mikes on Mics is a weekly podcast featuring Mike Vardy of Vardy.me and Mike Schechter of A Better Mess. We look to explore productivity, technology and how it connects to our lives. Episodes will not only cover the tech, tools and workflows that we use to accomplish our goals, but “The Mikes” always want to strive to take things a step further. We believe that the essentials are important, yet we...
We Need a Do-Not-Track Law
Facebook Is Using You – NYTimes.com We need a do-not-track law, similar to the do-not-call one. Now it’s not just about whether my dinner will be interrupted by a telemarketer. It’s about whether my dreams will be dashed by the collection of bits and bytes over which I have no control and for which companies are currently unaccountable. (via Instapaper)