Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. ~cj, Seattle, 2008
VinePeek And VineRoulette Let Us Become Real-time Video Voyeurs Twitter’s new video-sharing service, Vine, launched a few days ago, which we’ve covered extensively. My main complaint after a couple days worth of use is that I simply can’t find enough vines to enjoy. But a “Friday project” out of product incubator PXi Ventures could change all that, as they’ve launched a service called VinePeek. VinePeek is a website that pulls in the latest vines one after the other. It doesn’t matter who you follow, who you know, or if you’re even on Vine or Twitter. A similar site, VineRoulette serves up random vines around the world and lets you view tagged vines in a fairly unique interface. Both services offer real-time streams of all the latest vines from all over the world, and as you’ll learn once you click the link, video certainly brings a whole new level of awesome to the notion of social video. The app uses Ruby, Redis and the Twitter API to find new tweets containing vines.
Don't Be a Fucking Douchebag Part One This is part one of a three part series. Yes... the issue really does demand it.This part will cover role models for entrepreneurs. Part two will explore the difference between arrogance and confidence. Part three will discuss the ugliness of today’s San Francisco. I’ve spent a decent chunk of my career working in agencies. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve founded, run and/or worked at a half dozen startups over the last 20 years. For the first time since moving here in 1992, I’ve recently found myself considering getting out. I’m tempted to get out because of the people I have to deal with and because of the people I have to associate with and be associated with. Times have changed and the behavior, attitudes and personalities within the startup scene are no longer acceptable, tolerable or supportable. Selfish. Do you talk loudly on public transit about doing Adderall in Las Vegas and going to a strip club and throwing hundred dollar bills around? And I’m going to help you become a human again.
i like this art Twitter’s Vine Has A Porn Problem If you build it they will come. Vine, Twitter’s new video sharing platform, is currently experiencing a porn problem. As Nick Bilton pointed out earlier, by searching for the tags “#porn” or similar NSFW words, you can find content featuring exhibitionists of various stripes as well as porn video taken directly from laptop screens. All is not lost, however. Vine users can flag inappropriate video using the mobile app and, if flagged enough times, the system adds an interstitial roadblock that warns you of inappropriate content. Twitter has similar blocks in place for NSFW content and even accounts, but these features aren’t yet available on Vine.
cantonese A collection of useful phrases in Cantonese, a variety of Chinese spoken in Hong Kong, Macau, southern China, and a number of other places, in traditional characters and Yale Romanization. Key to abbreviations: frm = formal, inf = informal Jump to phrases See these phrases in any combination of two languages in the Phrase Finder. Note: the word 鱔 (síhn) can be translated as eel, but refers specifically to the Asian swamp eel (monopterus albus), an eel-like fish found in China and other parts of Asia. Bonus phrases Cantonese audio files and translations provided by Shirley Lam (沯靟埈) and HNHSoft, with corrections by Kenneth Ngan and John Ng Download the audio files (Zip format, 2MB) If you would like to make any corrections or additions to this page, or if you can provide recordings, please contact me. Other collections of Cantonese phrases Chinese pages
Design You Trust Vine Just Made Twitter A Stronger Social Network Vine, in case you missed it, is a standalone iOS app from Twitter that lets users create short, 6-second videos that run on a loop. Users record by holding their thumb against the screen, and stop by releasing. The short clips can then be threaded together and shared on Vine itself, Twitter or even Facebook. Here’s how a silly video-sharing app (which has been done before, by the way) makes Twitter a stronger social network. Content Generation Since Twitter launched, it’s never had a non-text platform for media creation. Twitter is a network based around media. Rather than let Facebook’s Instagram push all the juicy content through Twitter’s real-time network, the company has decided to build its own, new Instagram. This has been done before by companies like Socialcam and Viddy, but the numerous companies who’ve dipped their toes in the cinematic pool have found the water a bit chilly. Creation Vs. Twitter’s ads are valuable because of the number of eyes on its network at any given time.
Obama Protection Files Game Theory .net - Resources for Learning and Teaching Strategy for Business and Life Organizing Documents in the New Year | H&R Block You know the popular New Year’s Resolutions – lose weight, save money, get organized. Here’s a little something to help with organizing documents. This guide can help you sort through the stack of documents, receipts and other papers that have piled up over the last year (or years). Learn what to keep and what to pitch, as well as a few suggestions for how to go about storing it all. Click to view larger image Like this infographic? <em>Click image to see a larger version</em><a href=” alt=”File Cabinet Clean-Up” src=” width=”600″ /></a><a href=” You know the popular New Year’s Resolutions – lose weight, save money, get organized. Click to view larger image Like this infographic?
Cases: Branding Yoga - HBS Working Knowledge Harvard Business School Professor Rohit Deshpandé often asks his marketing students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable—and should everything be brandable? So when he read a November 2010 New York Times piece on the tensions between traditional practitioners who wanted to "take back yoga" from celebrity teachers with newfangled twists on the ancient practice, the word "brand" jumped out at him. "What had me intrigued was that there was this controversy," says Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing. "There were strong positions taken by a number of people. It wasn't just a descriptive story." “There are two elements of brand authenticity, and they appeal to two different sorts of people” Deshpandé decided that the business of yoga would make a lively teaching case for his class of entrepreneurs in the School's Owner/President Management Program, with plenty of lessons about branding and competitive strategy. Two Paths Bikram built his business slowly.
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