Paul Higgins: That is just fantastic
and it reminds me of the story about the turkey by Nassim Taleb. All the available evidence the turkey has is that humans are a benevolent and caring species that houses and feeds turkeys until one day ……….
(via Facebook Changes – Everybody Panic! — TweetFindTV)
So true: WE are the content of Facebook the broadcaster- it’s free but they sell our information!!
Amazon calculated that a page load slowdown of just 1 second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year. Google has calculated that by slowing its search results by just four tenths of a second they could lose 8 million searches per day—meaning they’d serve up many millions fewer online adverts.”
— via Fast Company (via courtenaybird)
(via courtenaybird)
Then one day out of the blue I had a phone call that changed everything. It was with our old designer Gideon, and he wanted to know why I wasn’t doing the denim plan because he loved it. He told me I should make my jeans in Cardigan, my home-town. I had thought of it before but had always dismissed it for some very sound practical reasons. But something just struck me as he said it. That was it.
I had worked out my “why”.
It wasn’t about starting another jeans brand. The world had enough of them. This jeans company was about getting a town that used to make jeans, to make them again. That was the why of it. It was all about the Town. And it is about bringing manufacturing back home.
Final part of the Everything Is A Remix series
(Source: everythingisaremix.info)
Tom Waits reads Charles Bukowski’s poem, The Laughing Heart.
Student loan debt now stands around $1 trillion. Education is often a great investment – but the proposition is more in question every day. Higher education prices increased 440% over the last 25 years – four times the rate of inflation, and twice as bad as health care. Elementary and secondary ed prices have skyrocketed, too, with not even adequate outcomes. On the other side of the ledger is the Moore’s law ecosystem, the most ruthless force in technology and the world economy. Last quarter Netflix streamed two billion hours worth of video – or 228,000 years worth in three months. In just the last week of December, smartphone and tablet owners gobbled up 1.2 billion apps – 43% by Americans. Twenty years ago, a terabyte hard drive, if such a thing had existed, might have cost $5 million. Today, you can pick one up for $69. The price of information plummets. Yet the price of education soars. These two trends cannot both continue. Guess which will crack first.”
— Apple and the Education-Information Chasm - Forbes (via infoneer-pulse)
(via emergentfutures)
This looks truly compelling - Documentary about President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, and his battle to save his country from rising sea levels.
(Source: theislandpresident.com)
What happens when 620,000 lenders fund 615,000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world?
(Source: vimeo.com)
Dense writing creates illegible slums of meaning. To the vocational writer, it looks discursive, messy and randomly exploratory.
But what the vocational writer mistakes for a lack of clear intention is actually a multiplicity of intentions, both conscious and unconscious.
Francine Prose, in Reading Like a Writer, remarked that beginning novelists obsess about voice, the question of who is speaking. She goes on to remark that the more important question is who is listening?
— Venkat on http://www.ribbonfarm.com/
(Source: ribbonfarm.com)
