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“I publish talks because this work is best conveyed through live demos — show-and-tell — and the "talk" is a medium that supports that. ¶ But a talk is a poor knowledge-container. It's opaque. The viewer can't skim, browse, or get a gist at a glance. Ideas can't be looked up as needed; they feel fleeting. The medium works well for entertainment — watch and enjoy — but not for a toolbox. ¶ This page is an attempt to "explode" a demo-driven talk into a skimmable, browsable, gistable form, where individual ideas can be quickly referenced later.” • #визуализация - × × ×

Очень классное видео, спасибо - nazer

#архивисты • #цифровая_история - × × ×

“As Soren Gordhamer patiently quieted a packed Wisdom 2.0 event in San Francisco in September for a guided meditation, a few in the communal meeting space known as the Hub couldn’t resist thumbing another message or two before pocketing their sacred devices. A willowy young brunette in a black T-shirt shot video of the crowd with her iPad from her front-row seat. Even after Mr. Gordhamer, who is tall with a sculptural face and Errol Flynn hair, urged the group to “come into presence,” his voice rising in emphasis, someone’s phone was buzzing like a dragonfly. ¶ Mr. Gordhamer started Wisdom 2.0 in 2009 to examine how we can live with technology without it swallowing us whole. The wait lists for his panel talks and conferences now run into the hundreds.” • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

!!! “Asked if he might make a habit of strolling through San Francisco without a device vibrating in his pocket, Mr. Williams paused for what sounded like a moment of reflection, but then he laughed. ¶ “It wasn’t a conscious effort to turn off my phone,” he said. “It happened that I needed to charge it.” - × × ×

Что, в общем, не так уж и плохо, но я только сейчас понимаю, что чувствовали, глядя на нас всех, Тед Нельсон и Дуг Энгельбарт. «Ну тупыыые» — вот что они думали. ( - × × ×

Да уж, Вика. - социальный груффало

Моя голова пока что ломается о совмещение бумаги и электронного поэта (архива, то есть; автокоррект как всегда в тему). Вики-бумага? Или в бумаге произошла находка? - toylike

“What the revelations mean for you.” - × × ×

счётчик убедительный тикает - earlyadopter

вот это подача! - Phil Smirnov

Из переписки: «У меня отличный маниакальный настрой, но я просто слишком хорошо знаю, что после десятого ноября начнутся проклятия, чувство вины, «будь проклят тот день, когда я сел за баранку этого пылесоса», вот это вот всё. Поэтому каждый раз после ноября я себе обещал, что «без ко-МЛ в эту фигню не лезть». Но потом летом снова приходит письмо от Нанораймы, всё солнечно, оптимистично, ноябрь кажется одним из лучших месяцев для интровертов в году. И так по кругу. В этот раз я понял, что можно написать тебе. ) Если не получится, начну вести анонимный дневник регионального представителя и буду жаловаться на жизнь в колодец!» - × × ×

Хотел в регионный угол воткнуть гифку с даффи даком, а они её не влезли. http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_... - × × ×

[...] В которой герой обнаруживает себя традиционно спасающим человечество против его воли. - × × ×

"At long last, I finally created a checklist that covers issues I’m most frequently asked about in my workshops. You can download the PDF and print it out. You can also click on the links to learn more, as I’ve previously published columns dedicated to most of these topics. You may find it useful to customize your own checklist from the topics below for a specific client or project." - × × ×

Для всех, кому тоже: http://yadi.sk/d/EY11HfN6BuR3H • #музыкальная_шкатулка - × × ×

Всё с тобой понятно, френдфидик. А Стенли офигенный. - × × ×

"Do you sometimes lie awake worrying that you aren't succeeding fast enough? Are you tortured by younger peers who have global businesses, penned acclaimed books and a string of iron-man medals? Do you count down the years until you can no longer make the 30 under 30 list? Take a deep breath. My 92 year old grandpa has some advice for you." • #long_now - × × ×

The HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item... has some nice comments. - 9000

«Наиславнейший!» — пишет нам герой в дневнике, — «А ты сам меня выбрал или тебя наказали за что?» Очень хорошие они. - × × ×

“Our Mission — To bring the world our unique end-to-end encrypted protocol and architecture that is the 'next-generation' of private and secure email. As founding partners of The Dark Mail Alliance, both Silent Circle and Lavabit will work to bring other members into the alliance, assist them in implementing the new protocol and jointly work to proliferate the worlds first end-to-end encrypted 'Email 3.0' throughout the world's email providers. Our goal is to open source the protocol and architecture and help others implement this new technology to address privacy concerns against surveillance and back door threats of any kind.” • #электропочта - #крипта - × × ×

“Russian hosts of the Group of 20 summit near St. Petersburg in September sent world leaders home with gifts designed to keep on giving: memory sticks and recharging cables programmed to spy on their communications, two Italian newspapers reported Tuesday. ¶ A Kremlin spokesman denied the allegations reported by Il Corriere della Sera and La Stampa, both of which attributed their stories to findings of technical investigations ordered by the president of the European Council and carried out by German intelligence.” - × × ×

"As a corrections officer at a Westchester County, N.Y., prison in the 1990s, Gary Klivans was a one-man gang unit. Members of The Latin Kings and the Bloods made up a sizable part of the prison population. Klivans learned quickly that to handle them, he needed to understand them, and that meant understanding the code they used to communicate. Klivans taught himself to decipher their messages. He became one of the most sought-after code-breakers in the country. (Also see the related Facts So Romantic post, “View From the Inside: How Gang Members Use Secret Codes.”) Even in retirement, his skills are in demand: Klivans sifts through encoded messages sent to him by law enforcement offers from around the country. “I have a knack for this. I see the patterns,” he told me. “Even as I’m printing the paper out, the words are jumping off the page at me.…A lot of people can’t see what I see.”" - × × ×

“They called it the “Great Mancession.” As the post-2008 economic decline put more men out of work than women in the US, marketers began to notice a trend: Men in opposite-sex couples were taking over what had traditionally been women’s roles. In focus group after focus group, Julie Murphy, an account planner at Midan Marketing, heard from under- and unemployed men who were buying and preparing most of the food in their households. Robbed of their economic potency, men were transforming themselves from chest-waxing metrosexuals into helpmates.” • #мужчинам_мужская_смерть (via @metavoid) - × × ×

Отличная подпись под картинкой: “Marketers were surprised to the point of neologism by the discovery that men shop for their families.” - × × ×

"Gifpop is a tool to make custom cards from animated gifs, using the magic of lenticular printing." - × × ×

Они реализовали шутку про распечатку animated gif! - 9000

"In his book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow," Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman mentions an experiment in which subjects were shown three words and were given two seconds to guess if they were linked. "Putting the participants in a good mood ... more than doubled accuracy," Kahneman writes. Unhappy subjects, on the other hand, made guesses that were no better than random. This is not to dismiss everything else we use to fill our brains. The Internet is a tool for thinking. So are meetings, mystery novels, video games and quiz shows, for that matter. And sometimes thinking has to be done on the fly. Impending deadlines, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson's line about the prospects of being hanged, can focus the mind wonderfully. But perhaps the best tool is time alone, feet up on the desk, staring at the ceiling." - × × ×

"Turning AC into the direct current required to power transistors (the heart of all electronic equipment) is a nuisance. The usual way is through a mains adaptor. These ubiquitous little black boxes are now cheap and light. But they are often inefficient, turning power into heat. And they are dumb: they run night and day, regardless of whether the price of electricity is high or low. It would be better to have a DC network, of the kind Mr Daniel has rigged up, for all electronic devices in a home or office. ¶ This is where USB cables come in. They carry direct current and also data. That means they can help set priorities between devices that are providing power and those that are consuming it: for example, a laptop that is charging a mobile phone. “The computer can say ‘I need to start the hard disk now, so no charging for the next ten seconds’,” says Mr Bhatt. The new standard, with variable voltage and greater power, enlarges the possibilities. So does another new feature: that power can flow in any direction." - × × ×

“This chimes with another advantage. A low-voltage DC network works well with solar panels. These produce DC power at variable times and in variable amounts. They are increasingly cheap, and can fit in windows or on roofs. Though solar power is tricky to feed into the AC mains grid, it is ideally suited to a low-voltage local DC network. When the sun is shining, it can help charge all your laptops, phones and other battery-powered devices.” - × × ×

Для большей эффективности иногда приучаешься _специально_ не заканчивать фразу, оборвав её запятой или на полуслове, чтобы было видно, что ты в процессе набора текста. • #паттерны - × × ×

Ветераны вспомнят, что так работали терминальные чаты и ICQ в те времена (1997), когда чат состоял из двух окон, в котором каждый писал свою часть непрерывной простынёй и свою половину диалога, без таймстампов и без перемешивания реплик. - × × ×

Было, было такое. У меня стоял там Comic Sans :-/ - anatoliy

"100-50-1 is a new photo exhibition, bringing together fifty of the world’s most talented mobile photographers to showcase portraits they’ve captured using their smartphones." • #профото - × × ×