Mississippi John Hurt - Ain’t No Tellin’
About time to sit down somewhere comfortable and have a drink.
My dad would have turned 75 today.
Mine arrived in the mail yesterday. Happy.
Source: annadevries
The Antlers - I Don’t Want Love
That Hospice was still looming large in many people’s minds may have dampened the reception that Burst Apart received a little, but it’s a gorgeous record.
Source: SoundCloud / i-D online
The Friction in Frictionless Sharing
Nick Bradbury:
So frictionless sharing isn’t frictionless after all. All it does is trade the small friction of having to choose what to share with the large friction of having to think about whether what you’re about to do will be shared.
Nicely articulated.
Source: interactioned
I also anticipate a ‘new’ form of anonymity will continue to gain popularity online. I term this “functional anonymity.” Functional anonymity in the real world is nothing new – it’s how most voting systems work. You can only vote if you’re registered with a name and address, but your vote cannot be traced back to you. Online services such as Quora, Honestly, and several blog comment systems are already showing the value of letting people post anonymously if they have already proven their identity. Functional anonymity will create a whole new communication ecosystem allowing for incredible frankness and openness. I anticipate this new form of anonymous expression will be very interesting and contentious as people come to experience it’s benefits and shortcomings.
tedr:
Functional anonymity is one of the most interesting spaces online to me right now.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: while I call it “managed” anonymity rather than “functional,” we’re only now starting to catch on to the power of an idea that was used to incredible effect in the Urban Baby forums nearly a decade ago.
Update: turns out that I started ranting about this all the way back in 2006.
(via tedr)
Source: scattergather.razorfish.com
Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?
buzz:
(via eyepool)
This is probably the best, most accessible analogy for the difficulty of software project planning that I’ve ever come across.
Exactly so. This wonderfully written answer illustrates an all-too-common failure of product management that brings software developers along for the ride (or, I suppose, hike), rather than a failure of software developers.
Source: eyepool
