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#музыкальная_шкатулка - × × ×

Новый рингтон! (Правда, найти бы хоть одного человека, который слышал мой старый, кроме меня, да.) - × × ×

Фильм на очереди к просмотру! Надеюсь, даже сегодня - toylike

“Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn. Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example: learning a language, studying for medical and law exams, memorizing people's names and faces, brushing up on geography, mastering long poems, even practicing guitar chords!” - × × ×

"Get your website statistics straight to your inbox. Tired of logging into Google Analytics to check your stats? Don't have the time to grapple with the complexity of Analytics? Every week, you get a PDF report via email that gives you an overview of your website's stats. All you need is a Google Analytics account." - × × ×

гм. интересно, чем оно отличается от точно так же прекрасно настраиваемых в GA авторепортов на Email - типа смартовый пацан

Наверное, тем, что не настраивается? - × × ×

“There are no rules about creativity. Which made constructing our list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business a tricky task. We looked for dazzling new thinkers, rising stars, and boldface names who couldn't be ignored. We avoided people we've profiled in the recent past. We emphasized those whose creativity addresses a larger issue -- from the future of our energy infrastructure to the evolution of philanthropy to next-generation media. So read on. Enjoy. Quibble. Complain.” - × × ×

#я_и_есть_тот_клоун #манипуляция_и_другие_животные - × × ×

(И ещё: тщеславие — зло, зло, не надо. Любопытство — да, тщеславие — нет, сдерживай.) - × × ×

«– Вы никогда не хотели ничем иным заниматься? – У меня не так голова устроена. Я проектировщик, если хотите. Мне вот говорят: «Слушай, а какая связь между тем, чем ты занимался раньше, и тем, чем ты занимаешься сейчас?». А мне кажется, что я занимаюсь одним и тем же. Я, вообще, по устройству – не журналист. Я когда-то писал статьи, но этого не люблю. Наверное, если напрягусь, я смогу выдавить из себя текст. Но то, как я думаю, гораздо больше похоже на то, как думают дизайнеры, чем журналисты. Я эту профессию уважаю, но владею ею довольно плохо. Даже когда я работал в «Огоньке», «Театральной жизни», «Декоративном искусстве», то никогда не занимался настоящей журналистикой, а занимался художественной критикой. Как журналиста я стал себя определять, когда стал главным редактором в [журнале] «Матадор», чтобы было понятно, что я делаю. А то, что мне было всегда интересно, – создание продуктов в медиа и не только. И отчасти успех «Афиши» и прилагающих к ней изданий с этим связан...» - × × ×

“Many people have asked me about some of the references for my Real Life Social Network talk. So here they are. I’m truly standing on the shoulders of others. For the most part, I’ve taken other people’s research and synthesized it, looking for patterns and trying to figure out how it all relates together. I hope the links here inspire you as much as they have inspired me.” - × × ×

Почему Пол Адамс ушёл из Гугла: “Google values technology, not social science.” — http://www.thinkoutsidein.com/blog... - × × ×

#соционический_балаган - × × ×

скажи мне, кто твой друг, и я скажу ему, кто ты - Костя

“In short, physical books can't compete with other print media for advertisers. Digital books can. With an integrated system, an advertiser or publisher can place ads across multiple titles to generate a sufficient volume. Timeliness is also possible, since digital readers require users to log in to a central system periodically.” - × × ×

а вот и бизнес-модель для букмейта. - alex@kapranoff.ru

“Also interesting: the web store will completely replace Chrome’s themes and extensions galleries when it launches, and it will allow developers to distribute and sell themes and extensions (in addition to the aforementioned apps).” - × × ×

всё равно в чекауте только USA и UK. - alex@kapranoff.ru

во, ждал пока оно подтянется в фрф чтобы залайкать :) ваще круто. причём, когда произнесено — уже вроде как очевидно: да, сознательная мифологизация поп-культуры и проч. Но всё же. - обречённый зверёк¹

«Сознательная мифологизация культуры» — это как-то слишком громко сказано. Скорее просто выдумывание больших текстов про людей, журналы с фотками которых всё равно купят. - alex@kapranoff.ru

“Matt Sikora doesn't look at the Rembrandts and Rodins at the Detroit Institute of Arts. His eyes are trained on the people looking at them. Mr. Sikora watches where visitors stop, whether they talk or read, how much time they spend. He records his observations in a handheld computer, often viewing his subjects through the display cases or tiptoeing behind them to stay out of their line of sight. "Teenage daughter was with, but did not interact, sat on bench, then left," read his notes of one visit. ¶ Mr. Sikora is the Detroit Institute of Arts's director of evaluation. He and five other observers are studying how visitors use the exhibits so the museum can tell if its information is accessible and which galleries are popular. ¶ More museums are paying to send stealth observers through their galleries. Based on what they see, the museums may rearrange art or rewrite the exhibit notes. Their efforts reflect the broader change in the mission of museums: It's no longer enough to hang artfully curated works. Museum exhibits are expected to be interactive and engaging. As well, many foundations and donors are requiring proof that their funding is well-spent, and the studies provide data to show a rise in traffic or exhibit engagement.” - × × ×

“Only three of fifty states are now solvent, meaning they have the revenues to meet their state budgets; and one of them is North Dakota. It is an unlikely candidate for the distinction. It is a sparsely populated state of less than 700,000 people, largely located in isolated farming communities afflicted with cold weather. Yet since 2000, the state’s GNP has grown 56%, personal income has grown 43%, and wages have grown 34%. The state not only has no funding issues, but this year it actually has a budget surplus of $1.2 billion, the largest it has ever had.” - × × ×

“I’ve also had systems built for me personally. One of the more important is my archiving and searching system, which includes 25 years of email (and 20 years of keystroke data), as well as searchable scans of all my archived paper documents.” - Stephen Wolfram : The Setup — интервью со Стивеном Вольфрамом о том, что он использует в работе и жизни. - × × ×

А также старое http://friendfeed.com/urbansh... - × × ×

ЧУПАКАБРЫ РЕШАЮТ ВСЁ?! - .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.

Сейчас примерно так и есть уже. Если за окно выглянуть, то становится очевидно, что чупакабры решают уже всё. И пришли они явно не с миром. - × × ×

“The real headline is: a top-notch usability expert with twenty-year track record of studying reading speed in eBooks is barely able to detect a difference between books and eBooks, and cannot detect any difference between iPad and Kindle.” - × × ×

“We can point to other precursors, too. H. G. Wells, for example, wrote The World Brain before the War and tried hard to fund a foundation that would manage an open-source microfilm encyclopedia of the world’s knowledge. But the really astonishing prediction is not Bush’s but Murray Leinster’s 1946 short story, “A Logic Name Joe”. Some of the things Leinster gets right: * Web terminals will be appliances found in every home – not vast machines serviced by an army of girls armed with typewriters. * Everyone will have one; is is not only scholars and scientists who need the world’s literature at their fingertips. * The computational logic in the home will be substantial. Server farms — Leinster calls them “tanks”, will be large but comparatively simple. * One of the first things that kids will ask their computers to tell them about is sex. * One of the first things that adults will ask their computers to tell them about is fraud. * When adults find out what the kids want to know, they... - × × ×