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nevver: Calvin and Hobbes

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:43:19 -0400

nevver:

Calvin and Hobbes

Nintendo’s Self-Inflicted Headshot (via Nintendo’s...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:23:54 -0400

Nintendo’s Self-Inflicted Headshot (via Nintendo’s Epic Fail — Grabbing Copyright From Its YouTube Fans – ReadWrite)

Defiance - fun with the Browncoats clan.

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:50:23 -0400

Defiance - fun with the Browncoats clan.

(via How the Telegraph was hacked - Telegraph) Shortly after...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:38:46 -0400

(via How the Telegraph was hacked - Telegraph)

Shortly after 10am on May 20, Telegraph Media Group employees began to receive emails purporting to come from external organisations. Containing a polite, formal greeting, they looked just like hundreds of legitimate emails that are received every day.

In what turned out to be a classic ‘phishing attack’, as recently also suffered by the FT and the Guardian, recipients were invited to click a link, and once they had done so asked to enter both their Telegraph user account and password details.

In a further twist, an email from the hackers also alerted users to the fact the Telegraph had been hacked, and invited them to click on yet another illegitimate link to ‘change their passwords’.

A tiny proportion of users’ accounts were successfully phished, leading to a small number of Twitter feeds being hacked. The Telegraph has since completely suspended any accounts that may have been compromised, preventing access to email, calendar, Google Drive and other Google apps services.

"Despite campaigners’ concerns about privacy, mobile users were also prepared to trade personal..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:28:34 -0400

“Despite campaigners’ concerns about privacy, mobile users were also prepared to trade personal information, such as email addresses, to advertisers in exchange for virtual rewards and premium content”

- Virtual currencies gain ground : News from warc.com

"So vast, so limitless in capacity is man’s imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:47:09 -0400

“So vast, so limitless in capacity is man’s imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.”

- William Faulkner Requiem for a Nun, 1951

Exclamation: Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:46:14 -0400

Exclamation: Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!:

yahoo:

I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!

We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and…

"It is in our nature to need stories. … Any story we tell of our species, any science of human..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:26:08 -0400

“It is in our nature to need stories. … Any story we tell of our species, any science of human nature, that leaves out much of what and how we feel is false. Nature shaped us to be ultra-social, and hence to be sharply attentive to character and plot. We are adapted to physiologically interact with stories. They are a key way in which our ruly culture configures our nature.”

- Jag Bhalla considers the evolutionary basis of storytelling. Also see The Storytelling Animal and complement with Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories. (via explore-blog)

Video

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:25:30 -0400

"Why are they not comfortable? Well first, it’s because it’s proven to be hellishly hard. It’s..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:13:52 -0400

“Why are they not comfortable? Well first, it’s because it’s proven to be hellishly hard. It’s uncomfortable because it requires a new way of working — requiring new team members, new areas of expertise, new technology, and new strategy. And all of it needs to happen at the speed of light.”

- How Corporate Storytelling Blurs Lines of Paid, Earned, Owned Media

Welcome to the new world.

Old Car - Blackbirds (by eliotbronson)

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:54:25 -0400

Old Car - Blackbirds (by eliotbronson)

"I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:26:15 -0400

“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”

- Virginia Woolf, and other thinkers, on libraries. Complement with Ray Bradbury on libraries. (via explore-blog)

"I concluded that the “challenge of the interactive movie” is to make a decent video game..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:43:49 -0400

“I concluded that the “challenge of the interactive movie” is to make a decent video game despite the fact that the marketing department will insist on slapping this stupid label on it.”

- Gamasutra - Features - The Designer’s Notebook: Three Problems for Interactive Storytellers, Resolved

I counsel analysts of accelerating automation to familiarize...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:57:29 -0400

I counsel analysts of accelerating automation to familiarize themselves with the socialist techno-utopian tradition and employ it as inspiration and context. (via Cautiously Toward Utopia: Automation and the Absurdity of Capitalism)

(via Digital TV, Movie Streaming Reaches a Tipping Point -...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:32:01 -0400

(via Digital TV, Movie Streaming Reaches a Tipping Point - eMarketer)

flackadelic: Per the news release about this study: NONPROFITS...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:30:26 -0400

flackadelic:

Per the news release about this study:

NONPROFITS RAISING MORE MONEY, REACHING LARGER AUDIENCE IN MAJOR ANNUAL ONLINE FUNDRAISING AND ADVOCACY REPORT

M+R Strategic Services & NTEN’s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study of 55 Nonprofits Sets Annual Industry Standards

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Online nonprofit fundraising is on the rise, with explosive growth in sustaining gifts and a larger audience of supporters reached through social media networks like Facebook, according to anew comprehensive analysis released today of 55 of the country’s leading nonprofits, including the American Red Cross, Sierra Club, American Lung Association, AARP and Human Rights Campaign. While the growth of online fundraising is expected to remain robust, the report also cites the long-term decline of response rates as a top priority for nonprofits evaluating their email performance in an increasingly crowded inbox.

Key findings of the nonprofits surveyed, include:

●     A 21 percent increase in online revenue overall from 2011, with only International groups seeing a decline in online giving.

●     A sharp decline in certain key email metrics – such as a 14 percent decline in click-through rates for advocacy messages and 27 percent decline for fundraising messages. This trend was driven mostly by the decline in click-through rates among Rights and International groups. Advocacy messages sent on behalf of Environmental groups performed best.

●     Since 2011, online monthly giving grew by 43 percent – more than twice as fast as one-time giving. Although still a small percentage of overall giving, sustaining gifts now account for 18 percent of revenue for International groups.

●     Email list sizes continue to grow for all sectors and sizes, up 15 percent in 2012. This trend was greatest for Wildlife and Animal Welfare groups, which grew their email lists by 32 percent from 2011.

●     The growth of social media audiences outpaced email lists in 2012, growing an average of 46 percent on Facebook and 264 percent on Twitter. However, Facebook continues to be king for connecting with supporters on social media, reaching 149 Facebook fans for every 1,000 email subscribers.

"One recipe for Internet success seems to be this: Start at the bottom, at the most awful,..."

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:15:06 -0400

“One recipe for Internet success seems to be this: Start at the bottom, at the most awful, ridiculous, essential idea, and own it. Promote it breathlessly, until you’re acquired or you take over the world. Bitcoin is playing out in a similar way. It asks its users to forget about central banking in the same way Steve Jobs asked iPhone (AAPL) users to forget about the mouse.”

- Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven - Businessweek

Activision R&D Real-time Character Demo (by...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:55:01 -0400

Activision R&D Real-time Character Demo (by ActivisionRnD)

Just, wow.

Track Listing for forthcoming April 2 release ‘The Music...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:14:12 -0400

Track Listing for forthcoming April 2 release ‘The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver’

Available to Pre-order now:
itunes.apple.com/us/album/music-i…john/id616429872

Sandberg has penned not so much a new Feminine Mystique as an...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:47:45 -0400

Sandberg has penned not so much a new Feminine Mystique as an updated Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Where other feminists focus on articulating the amount of free or underpaid labor that women do, Sandberg places a priceless value on labor itself and encourages more of it, whether paid, unpaid, or poorly paid. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask which seat,” she says, quoting advice she received from Google executive Eric Schmidt. (via Feminism’s Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in? | Dissent Magazine)