February 2011
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“As a full-time employee, you spend 1,700 hours a year working at your desk....”
– This was pointed out to us in a work-safety presentation that pulled out every single cliché possible. How… wonderful. Thanks for rubbing in how much of life we’re missing.
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Why the Gawker Blog Family's RSS is Broken for... →
The main problem is that LifeHacker URLs now don’t map to actual content. Well, every URL references the LifeHacker homepage.
Earlier I complained about how I couldn’t get any Gawker sites (Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Kotaku) to load when going through Google Reader on my iPhone. Now I know why.
“I’m skeptical that the iPad would have two cameras, both front- and rear-facing....”
– a footnote from Daring Fireball’s article on a possible iPad 2.5/3.
The answer?
Yes. Does he not know people who own pets?
“Two years into his tenure as AOL CEO, Tim Armstrong is stepping on the gas.
By...”
– Leaked: The AOL Way - Business Insider
So more SEO, more ads, lower quality, and lower readability.
Here’s hoping Readability and Instapaper win this battle.
Web format changing online journalism →
Flipboard’s Mike McCue: Web format has ‘contaminated’ online journalism
LA Times via Daring Fireball. John Gruber revisited this after AOL bought Huffington Post.
I think this ties back to the new developments with Instapaper and Readability (via Techcrunch). Almost all major sites that publish content make any sort of long-form content ridiculously difficult to view (which...
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“Find someone, even a long-lost relative, who can refer you. There is nothing...”
– A tip from Mashable - Are Cover Letters Still Relevant for Social Media and Tech Jobs?
“Born in 1965, a full eighteen years after India’s independence, Dalrymple...”
– Those writing about history can be interesting studies themselves.
The Don of Delhi by Karan Mahajan from Bookforum (@Bookforum), on William Dalrymple.
via Arts & Letters Daily (@aldaily)
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Instapaper and Readability - paying for content →
Via Techcrunch (MG Siegler)
I’ve never been much of one for using a service like Instapaper. Not that I don’t like saving articles for reading later, but I already have a system for that in Google Reader, which handles probably 99% of my regular reading material. If I want something saved for later, I usually use the “keep unread” link. And it’s worth noting how that...
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