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J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995), and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More Ok, so this isn’t as funny as their story on Google Purge in 2005, but today’s story making fun of blogger navel gazing is worth the read. If only they had somehow worked TechMeme into it. Entire Blogosphere Stunned By Blogger’s Special Weekend Post
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Lifehacker is making some changes to its comment system that will require you to log in with a Facebook, Google, or Twitter account. You must convert your account to one of these services in order to continue using your account. Converting your account on Lifehacker will do so on all Gawker Media Sites.Do people ever tell you to "just smile, you'll feel better"? If you're like our daughter Nora, you hear it a lot, and you get annoyed every time you hear it. Telling a teenager to smile is probably one of the best ways to ensure she won't smile for the next several hours. But the notion that "smiling will make you feel better" has actually been confirmed by research. There are several studies demonstrating that people are happier when they smile, at least in certain circumstances. It's not as easy as you might think to study the effect.
"Just smile, you'll feel better!" Will you? Really?
Smashing Magazine offers this nice round-up of next generation user experience technologies (e.g. ReacTable , Photosynth , BumpTop ). There’s a prescient comment about the Wii controller’s possible influence in tweaking the interaction paradigm.
Future User Experiences
Are your sleep habits making you fat, nasty and dumb?
jonathanfields.com — Your stress-inducing job, French-cruller breakfast-smoothies and increasingly sedentary lifestyle might not be entirely to blame. A good chunk of your weight gain, moodiness and brain-fog may be due to your sleep habits. Nov 26, 2007 View in Crawl 4
Cyberpunk icon proposes open source political party
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September 2007 | TOP 5 TREND WATCHING TIPS
Consumers don't expect brands to be flawless. In fact, consumers will embrace brands that are FLAWSOME*: brands that are still brilliant despite having flaws; even being flawed (and being open about it) can be awesome. Brands that show some empathy, generosity, humility, flexibility, maturity, humor, and (dare we say it) some character and humanity.
I’m a pretty prolific blogger — between regular posts at Zen Habits, and writing regularly for blogs such as Web Worker Daily , FreelanceSwitch , NorthxEast and more, and writing guest posts for other blogs (such as the excellent Skelliewag ), I write a lot of posts every week. And what’s asked of me most often, besides “How can you write so much?”, is the more difficult question: “How do you come up with so many ideas for posts?” That’s not so easy to answer. Coming up with ideas is a skill, actually, something that’s become easier with practice. And I don’t have one single method of coming up with great ideas for articles, except this one:
The Top 20 Ways to Come Up With Amazing Ideas
These dolls make great gifts! Nothing cheers someone up like a little soft, fuzzy, and cute bundle of misery. Make sure to download the pdf for the full instructions! Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that’s perfect for Makeziners. Use it to make and promote your product ideas. Ponoko supplies the digital manufacturing technology and the materials, you supply the creativity.
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First published in December 2007 | Another year has almost passed. Over the last 11 months, we have highlighted trends like (STILL) MADE HERE, FEMALE FEVER, TRANSPARENCY TYRANNY, TRYSUMERS and more. No doubt 2008 will be as trend-heavy; to get you going, here are eight trends to watch and capitalize on in the new year . Oh, and may we be among the first to wish you an innovative, prosperous, trendy 2008! Let's start this December Trend Briefing by looking back. At the beginning of 2007, as part of our STATUS LIFESTYLES trend , we wrote:
December 2007 | 8 trends to capitalize from in 2008
lifeclever.com — So you?ve labored with sweat and tears writing your r?sum?, and now you?re all set to turn it into a magnificently designed creation. Unfortunately, with the freedom of modern computers and fancy software, comes huge opportunities for abuse.