January 2010
“So, three months later, how many people have signed up to pay $5 a week, or $260...”
– After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday’s Web Site | The New York Observer
“Actual football played in a 60-min NFL game: about 11 minutes.
So what do the...”
– Gridiron time
“Great design doesn’t feel “intuitive”. It feels inevitable.”
– Twitter / Steve Marmon: Great design doesn’t feel …
“Beyond the data, which van Quaquebeke and Giessner assert show that taller...”
– Refs Are Gunning for Tall Guys, New Report Asserts - Goal Blog - NYTimes.com
“A spokeswoman for Nielsen Media Research pointed to a study the company released...”
– Conan O’Brien’s Undoing Reflects Media Choices of Young - NYTimes.com
“will you have a jukebox in your diner? you pay a fee for public music. will you...”
– ?uestlove: all who want an explanation of the world of walk on music enter this post
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client...”
– Saul Bass (via marco) (via brocatus)
“Giving people a sample is a great way to hook people and encourage them to buy...”
– With Kindle, Publishers Give Away E-Books to Spur Sales - NYTimes.com
“Before the Internet, most professional occupations required a large body of...”
– MIT researcher David Dalrymple’s answer to the question, “How is the Internet changing the way you think?” (via chrbutler)
“People started using Twitter and Facebook for direct messages instead of E-mail...”
– What’s Next in Web Design? (via iamdanw)
“The ringtone business is beginning to slide, research firm IBIS World reports...”
– Rise of Texting Leads to Fall of Ringtones | MobileBehavior
“Maintaining enough distance to permit a decisive break now requires more...”
– The Sex Diaries - A Critical Reading of New Yorkers’ Sexual Habits & Anxieties — New York Magazine
“That’s why the fans of the winning team – in this case, Ohio State – who...”
– Don’t be happy, be worried: Sports fans need dose of negative
“The reason a person is critical of a thing is because he is passionate about...”
– Alex Payne — Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity (via iamdanw)
“…knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5.”
– Eric Schmidt (via azspot) (via jonathan-deamer)
“It’s just that right now, the Adobe apps I use don’t feel like they’re made for...”
– kung fu grippe : Crash Report for “Adobe Fireworks CS4” by Jon…
“Yahoo’s Brightman estimated that there’s about $220 billion in discretionary...”
– Web accessibility no longer an afterthought - CNN.com (via iamboz)
“CAPTCHA, Flash, ambiguous links, poor/missing alternative text, complex forms,...”
– WebAIM: Blog - Screen Reader User Survey Results (via iamboz)
“Parents have always worried about where to send their children to school; but...”
– What Makes a Great Teacher? - The Atlantic (January/February 2010)
“Overall, those interviewed on rainy days received about a 1 percent lower score...”
– If It’s Raining, You Might Want to Reschedule That Interview - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“So Cmdr. Joseph A. Smith, a Navy officer assigned to the National...”
– Military Deluged in Drone Intelligence - NYTimes.com
“The food and drink I can do without easily. The jokes, gossip, laughs, arguments...”
– Nil by mouth - Roger Ebert’s Journal
“I hope they”
– Connected2Music — New Portishead song “Chase The Tear” for benefit…
“The temptation is to look and find out what someone is up to even if it hurts,”...”
– Breaking Up in a Digital Fishbowl - NYTimes.com
“The game is going to die from the ground up. Think about it: Virtually every...”
– Malcolm Gladwell-Bill Simmons III: The War to Settle the Score - ESPN
“When I visited Nike last month, we toured the development building (in which...”
– Bill Simmons and Malcolm Gladwell return for Gladwell-Simmons III - ESPN
“When you sign a debit card receipt at a large retailer, the store pays your bank...”
– The Card Game - How Visa, Using Fees Behind Its Debit Card, Dominates a Market - Series - NYTimes.com
“The introduction of a new computer system last year has slowed me down. After...”
– Unusable software slows down police - uselog.com | the product usability weblog