May 2012
55 posts
“Things might be different, science fiction told me, and different in literally...”
– Seeing the Future in Science Fiction : The New Yorker
“On the verge of débuting his late, lamented sci-fi series “Firefly,” which was...”
– “Doctor Who,” “Community,” and Cult TV Fans : The New Yorker
Oh, I see what you did there — bringing it full circle with the Dr. Who-inspired kicker reference.
“The comparison between computer and human viruses was made to give security...”
– Computer hackers could cross line from computer to biological attacks - Techworld.com
I like flipping the frame of thought from virus to anti-virus lessons. Something to ponder…
“Both computer and biological viruses, they explain in their paper, can be...”
– Could Human and Computer Viruses Merge, Leaving Both Realms Vulnerable? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
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“It takes a very long time to become young.”
– Goodreads | Quote by Pablo Picasso: It takes a very long time to become young.
via Kurtis Katakura on The Listserve, 5-23-12
“We’ve long confused “information” with “journalism.”
It’s the reason lists...”
– We need to reinvent the article - SeanBlanda.com
“figures from Nielsen, which had worked with Facebook over the past year to...”
– You Are the Ad - Technology Review
Thinking about impact measures and evaluating the results…
“The nature of people’s behavior on the Web and of how they interact with...”
– The Facebook Fallacy - Technology Review
“Here’s the thing, and why now is the time to point this out: most of those...”
– Doc Searls Weblog · After Facebook fails
“The increased audio fidelity of 16-bit consoles brought several significant...”
– Cruise Elroy » Sonic on bass
via Tim Carmody
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“The construction of software should be an engineering discipline. However, this...”
– About « Code as Craft
Quoted from The Pragmatic Progammer
“Robert Kennedy: “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the...”
– Why Solutions Journalism Matters, Too - NYTimes.com
“Perhaps the work of solution journalism is not to propose solutions, but to help...”
– Jonathan Stray » The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems
“The solution journalist ought to be well informed, certainly, and perhaps they...”
– Jonathan Stray » The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems
“if journalism has no effect, then it simply does not work. But neither do I...”
– Jonathan Stray » The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems
“Designing society
Rittel researched, practiced, and wrote on the subject of...”
– Jonathan Stray » The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems
“A ”wicked problem“ is one where defining the problem is part of the problem.”
– Jonathan Stray » The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems
“It’s been said that the role of journalism is to inform, but informing seems...”
– Jonathan Stray » The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems
“Real ethical progress, he found, came from
a sequence of institutions, norms,...”
– GBN review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
“Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter...”
– Rands In Repose: Please Learn to Write
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“I can’t think of any more human activity than conducting science experiments....”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why We’re Wired for Science and How Originality Differs in Science and Art | Brain Pickings
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“It is not enough for journalism to simply report and explain where we have been....”
– Hindsight Journalism « Groundswell
“Work is what we do by the hour. It begins and, if possible, we do it for money....”
– Lewis Hyde on Work vs. Labor and the Pace of Creativity | Brain Pickings
“I view most of journalism as solving problems. You need to identify the guy was...”
– Andy Boyle – Algorithms and journalisms, part one
Ditto
“Blockbuster’s mistake? To follow a principle that is taught in every fundamental...”
– Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?” — HBS Working Knowledge
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“The mind, at its best, is a pattern-making machine, engaged in a perpetual...”
– Dancing About Architecture: A Field Guide to Creativity | Brain Pickings
““One of the biggest problems in science today is moving forward and finding the...”
– Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics | Wired Science | Wired.com
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“Where are the inefficiencies, and can you do something to erase them? If so,...”
– Scripting News: Paywalls are backward-looking
“In most of science, you try to keep everything constant except for one variable....”
– Download Your Own Robot Scientist | Wired Science | Wired.com
A good analogy for measures the impact of and response to journalism.
“Sometimes Eureqa will require more data than it’s given before finding answers....”
– Download Your Own Robot Scientist | Wired Science | Wired.com
“There’s a famous quote by Emerson Pugh: ‘If the human brain were so simple that...”
– Download Your Own Robot Scientist | Wired Science | Wired.com
“An ongoing challenge is the tendency of Eureqa to return equations that fit...”
– Download Your Own Robot Scientist | Wired Science | Wired.com
“The whole situation could have been avoided if the company had used actionable...”
– Lessons Learned: Why vanity metrics are dangerous
“At worst, these kinds of vanity metrics can be easily used for gross...”
– Lessons Learned: Why vanity metrics are dangerous
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“When Feynman faces a problem, he’s unusually good at going back to being like a...”
– BBC’s Richard Feynman: No Ordinary Genius | Brain Pickings
“Sean had already learned a lot about the company’s businesses and some things...”
– When Choosing a Job, Culture Matters - Bill Barnett - Harvard Business Review
“I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice...”
– Stephens: To the Class of 2012 - WSJ.com
Anecdotal but incisive
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“What has gone underappreciated in this trend is the effect on science itself and...”
– Why Science Is Better When It’s Multi-National: Scientific American
“A web company might do really well with thirty people and a few million dollars...”
– What’s the right size? The quantum mechanics of growth…
My takeaway is a broader lesson about size and scale
“A useful metric is both accurate (in that it measures what it says it measures)...”
– Avoiding false metrics
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“Science is primarily an investigation of our place of the Universe — the place...”
– A Poetic Definition of Science Circa 1997 | Brain Pickings
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“Participants in this study almost always consumed news as part of another set of...”
– Less news=good news, AP study says | MediaFile | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com
“Most innovation in media and most of the revenue and most of the value will come...”
– stdout.be | Fungible
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“The great gift of the conscious human brain is the capacity—and with it the...”
– Legendary Harvard sociobiologist E. O. Wilson in The Social Conquest of Earth. Also see Jonathan Gothschall’s The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human and Wilson on the origin of the arts. (via explore-blog)
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“Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think;...”
– The Top of My Todo List
“Notice that I didn’t mention digital-first or social data crowdjournalism or...”
– stdout.be | Fungible
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“Creativity is the residue of wasted time.”
– Jonah Lehrer, author of the excellent Imagine: How Creativity Works, quotes Albert Einstein at the 99% Conference. (via explore-blog)
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“The institute will not be a scientific computing center, said Alistair Sinclair,...”
– Simons Foundation Chooses U.C. Berkeley for Computing Center - NYTimes.com
“People have been freaking out about the virtuality of data for decades, and...”
– Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags
“The essence of a book isn’t the ideas it contains. The essence of a book is...”
– Shirky: Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags 