Please Give Us Your Email Password (14)
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Jeff Atwood (242)
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Coding Horror (419)
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A number of people whose opinions I greatly respect have turned me on to Yelp over the last six months or so. Yelp is a community review site, and a great way to discover cool new places in whatever neighborhood you happen to be in. I've enjoyed using Yelp, and I wanted to participate by submitting my first review, so I created a new account there. As part of the account creation process, I was ...
Book Review: The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso (1)
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For people who pay attention to politics, the phrase “Chicago Machine Politics” means all the worst aspects of electioneering, corruption and dirty politics. Jobs are handed out as political favors, contributions are solicited in exchange for contracts, and government workers spend their times leading up to Election Day doing political work on behalf of connected candidates. It’s everything that’s wrong with Washington politics, except far worse. This is the starting point of David Freddoso’s new ...
Why Apple Doesn’t Do ‘Concept Products’ (48)
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John Gruber (1705)
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Brilliant essay by Kontra at Counternotions: Why hasn’t Apple, the most innovative and visionary company in computing, produced a single concept product or vision in over a decade? Because, to paraphrase Jobs, real artists ship. ★
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bfernald said:
In other words, don't believe your own hype; build it.
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Anthony said:
That is so awesome.
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Eric said:
@stevej used to say that too.
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Tim said:
be sure to click through to thw original article. A really worthy read!
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Rob said:
Real artists ship, dabblers create concept products
Forget Community. Forget Conversation. Business Blogging Is About SEO. (6)
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Rick Burnes (9)
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HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog (45)
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If you don't blog, you're probably tired of people telling you why you should.The blog-pushers who insist it's a great way to create a community around your product.The evangelists who argue blogging is a great way to create conversation.The practical folks who tell you blogging is a better way to publish your press releases.You don't dispute any of this. You just find it wishy-washy.Your business is a data-driven machine. You live and die by leads ...
Lawrence Lessig Predicts i-911 Event (2)
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Tech visionary Lawrence Lessig, law professor and founder of Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, predicted an “i-9/11 event” that will prompt the U.S. government to clamp down on Internet freedoms in an online parallel to the Patriot Act act, reports Fortune. Lessig said [former federal counter-terrorism adviser Richard] Clarke told him that the Justice Department had already written up much of the Patriot Act before the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, and ...
Fed to Set Price of Money - Tuesday 8/5 (2)
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Over the past few decades it has become fashionable to lament the fact that Americans no longer save. Tsk tsk, the pundits say, how lazy and stupid Americans have become. But this is not true. By not saving, Americans are actually acting rationally under our current crazy monetary system, which benefits the powerful and politically connected few at the expense of the rest of us. Today’s official (government calculated) inflation rate is around 5%, meaning ...
