January 2011
17 posts
“…both animals and humans have a built-in automatic response to stimuli called...”
– Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (via slantback)
“Predicting people’s behavior is becoming big business—and increasingly feasible...”
– I don’t so much mind as that I want to have a look at the conclusions about the data myself…How Visa Predicts Divorce - The Daily Beast (via slantback)
“Twitter makes me love people I’ve never met and Facebook makes me hate people I...”
– Derek Bertelsen (via jesslynteo)
Squashed: Internet Comments are a Lot Like... →
squashed:
Graffitti can certainly be a form of public art. But it’s more often just somebody’s way of saying “I was here!” And when there’s a truly fantastic bit of grafitti it’s only a matter of time before somebody paints a giant penis next to it. (Or some other commenter writes something like, “ur probly…
I used to think blog comments would be awesome.
squashed:
Around 1999, I was really excited about blog comments. They were, I thought, the international marketplace of ideas brought to fruition. Diverse and interesting people would be able to interract, learn from eachother, and come to better understand eachother’s perspectives. There would never be a war again! And, if all of those exciting people read something I wrote, I would be part of...
laura olin: "This should be a cardinal rule for... →
lauraolin:
A MySpace employee talks about the company’s demise:
It’s indicative of what happens when the public makes decisions about how their products are designed: 9 times out of 10 what the public collectively wants is just plain awful.
The sad thing is, the people who made all those gaudy,…
“Facebook won’t last, because it can’t last. Zuck has built a big
rickety gizmo....”
– The WELL: State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky (via anfischer)
“But at some point in the (probably very distant) future, the number of dead...”
– The dead shall walk among us | things magazine (via jomc)
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”
– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time
I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase. (via buzzandersen)
“In the 1990s, when few businesses really knew what they were doing and the...”
– Clay Shirky (via azspot)
“…but for other people, like publishers who have been told that they “don’t get...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
