I email myself things I want to look at later, and maybe blog. (I use del.icio.us more for work, and I’ve never spliced my feed for that reason.)
Problem is, my blog trails other interests, so the tasty tidbits pile up. Here’s a quick scoop from the 60 (!) possible links waiting in my personal inbox.
- In late August, the NYTimes captured a cultural shift with At a Family Gathering, an Internet Cafe Breaks Out: “Soon guests were positioning themselves to get dibs on one of the three computers in our Long Island house the way they would otherwise line up to jump in the shower.”
- David Pogue on product managers: “The product manager (P.M.) is an interesting beast, sort of a crossbreed: somebody who knows a lot about the product and its target audience, as the engineers and programmers do, but who’s also there to promote the product, as the P.R. people do.” One amusement: this is a re-run. Pogue was just excerpting one of his own past columns!
- Time to fill out my 15th anniversary report for college, leading into next spring’s reunion. Hmmm…
- I haven’t played Bloxorz, but it came recommended (don’t remember from whom).
- Kottke drew attention to a 1934 vision of information presentation and consumption which predates Vannevar Bush’s Memex. With a short video, describing the concept of the “televised book.”
- A 1996 video of Steve Jobs and John Lasseter with Charlie Rose. 23 minutes, about Pixar, and running while I finish this aggregation. Jobs was still running Next!
- Joe Clark shares his obsession with fonts in the Toronto subway.
- Six long bicycle trails without cars. Hope I can find time for one or more someday.
- Marc Andreessen gives his colleague Ben Horowitz a place to share his Counterpoint: Ben Horowitz on micromanagement, including “When hiring and when firing executives, you must therefore focus on strength rather than lack of weakness.”
- I’ve tried a few of these magazines for the iPhone, but it’s not that impressive.
- Screencast about Quicksilver: is it efficient to learn more about how to use efficiency tools? 😉
- Here’s the equivalent of e-cards from The Onion: someecards, such as this one. I haven’t found an “occasion” yet, but I look forward to the day.
- If you don’t follow indexed, you should. Here’s one reason why.
- David promised that he would catch me if I tried this trick.
Enough for tonight. Eight minutes more of Jobs and Lasseter from 1996 on Pixar.