May 2013
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May 14th
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May 6th
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The Lies You've Been Told About the Origin of the... →
The lies were better. This is just misplaced inertia. 
May 6th
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If Google Glass takes off, invest in companies that make urinal privacy screens.
May 5th
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“It’s as if we’ve broken the ice with the worst possible idea, and now that the...”
– McDonald’s Theory — What I Learned Building… — Medium
May 1st
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April 2013
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How Jenna Lyons Transformed J.Crew Into A Cult... →
File under: Required Reading It’s amazing what you can do when you mix a driven CEO with the right designer.
Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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“We’re not sure what dark, samurai magic the man possessed but it seems...”
– Pipeburn
Apr 12th
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“Facebook Home is a trojan horse designed to steal the Android experience, and...”
– Apple Outsider » Home Turf
Apr 9th
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New mix.  Nothing but songs that are good to drive to by bands with the word “black” in their names. Sorry… No Black Sabbath, Black Crowes, Black Grape, or Black Box Revelation… Gotta leave something for volume 2. 
Apr 2nd
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March 2013
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“You can start watching Doctor Who, at any point in its history. You don’t have...”
– Steven Moffat Talks DOCTOR WHO Season 7, Writing the Doctor and Sherlock Holmes, and More | Collider
Mar 30th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 22nd
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Mar 20th
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Mar 20th
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February 2013
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Feb 27th
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“A Yahoo internal memo this week said “it is critical that we are all...”
– The Real Reasons No One At Yahoo Will Be Working From Home | Fast Company An even bleaker take on Yahoo!’s new ban on telecommuting.
Feb 26th
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“What this reveals more than anything is that Yahoo management doesn’t have a...”
– No more remote work at Yahoo by David of 37signals It’s no surprise that DHH has possibly the most scathing, yet insightful, critique of Yahoo!’s decision to eliminate telecommuting. 
Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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kottke.org: Neither snow nor rain nor crippling... →
jkottke: This Esquire article asks: Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office? The postal service is not a federal agency. It does not cost taxpayers a dollar. It loses money only because Congress mandates that it do so. What it is is a miracle of high technology and human touch. It’s what…
Feb 25th
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Feb 19th
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“I’m not interested in squeezing something so tight that I get every last drop. I...”
– A loose rant on maximization by Jason Fried of 37signals
Feb 12th
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Game Over: Twitter Mentioned In 50% Of Super Bowl... →
There’s a lesson here, considering that Twitter’s success here is largely due to hashtags, which were originally created by their users and not an original feature.
Feb 5th
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It was a rough weekend for 49ers fans, but it was a little worse for Applebee’s and HMV, both of which have learned important lessons about employee relations and social media in 2013.
Feb 5th
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Marketers Jump on Super Bowl Blackout With... →
Even more examples.
Feb 4th
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How Oreo's rapid-response team lit up Twitter with... →
Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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January 2013
Jan 28th
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Anti-Apple Anger – Marco.org →
Where Apple says “You can’t do that because we think that would suck,” Microsoft and Android usually say, “You can do whatever you want, even if it sucks.” They give users enough rope with which to hang themselves, even when that results in asphyxiation, and it’s up to the users to tolerate or fix any resulting problems themselves. Google and Microsoft are platform libertarians: they don’t kick...
Jan 22nd
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Jan 10th
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"If you were to bother to read my books, to behave... →
That’s the thing I love about Kurt Vonnegut and it’s possibly the most subversive thing about his work. 
Jan 5th
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Jan 2nd
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December 2012
Dec 31st
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Dec 28th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 1st
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November 2012
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Nov 29th
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Nov 20th
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“But social media customer service isn’t a cute tool to be used by opportunistic...”
– Harry Rollason - Why Social Media Makes Customer Service Better The three tips in this article are exactly right. Integrate social media into your existing customer service function… Create humanized response models to engender loyalty and build relationships… Monitor social...
Nov 13th
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“These arguments we have are a mark of our liberty. As we speak, people in...”
– President Barack Obama
Nov 7th
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“If people want to do something on the internet, they will want to do it using...”
– A List Apart: Articles: Your Content, Now Mobile File under: Required Reading
Nov 6th
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Nov 5th
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October 2012
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Digital Titles at Ad Agencies: Going, Going, Gone? →
As Honesty CEO, Walter Naeslund says “It just doesn’t make sense anymore to have separate staff to handle a separate area which is inherently impossible to separate from anything else.” This goes beyond individual titles. Claiming to be a “digital agency” only made sense when it helped differentiate your company from “traditional agencies” that had not...
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Oct 24th
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“The entire technology industry uses the word “user” to describe its customers....”
– Square’s Jack Dorsey
Oct 17th
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Oct 10th
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“We’re about being in business for the long haul and keeping the team together...”
– Jason Fried - 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady | Fast Company Jason Fried and 37signals consistently do the right thing. It’s been inspiring to watch their company grow over the last decade. 
Oct 4th
September 2012
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Sep 27th
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