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The need for more insight into the present
Om Malik makes an excellent point on the need to contemplate the present as it’s happening. So much of our collective present is chunked up into tweet-sized analysis that we may be losing the essence of the times we live in. Anyway, his post is worth reading: As an avid reader, I am often amazed […]
The force is strong with this one…
Looking forward to seeing Rogue One on the big screen this winter…
An excellent video on WV’s classic ad campaign from the ’60s
Simple, and to the point… The advertising that Volkswagen ran in American magazines and newspapers in the 1960s was legendary, perhaps the greatest ad campaign ever.. This is a great little documentary about how the ads came about — pitching “a Nazi car in a Jewish town”.. Source: Those great 1960s Volkswagen ads
Mobile web and native are different, but both are important
This is an excellent post on why web and native apps equally important In other words. The Web is for audience reach and native apps are for rich experiences. Both are strategic. Both are valuable. So when it comes to mobile, it’s not Web vs. Native. It’s both. Source: LukeW | Mobile Web vs. Native Apps […]
Website bloat is a real issue
Websites have gotten increasingly bloated. So much of this bloat is hidden to the user, and is tied to surveillance technology. This post does a great job of explaining the problem: Let’s preserve the web as the hypertext medium it is, the only thing of its kind in the world, and not turn it into […]
Satoshi Nakamoto and the invention of a new currency
Satoshi Nakamoto drew from the history of cryptocurrencies since David Chaum’s seminal blinding formula in the 1980s. He postulated that the flaw with existing approaches to cryptocurrencies was that a single powerful attacker could undermine and destroy the system. In order to to defeat the powerful attacker, Satoshi decentralised the control of the cryptocurrency over an […]
Back home
Pictures from a short hike in Mill Creek Park last Sunday. Lanterman’s Mill – Youngstown, Ohio
Link: The Math Wizards Who Rule Murky World of Programmatic Buying | Digital – Advertising Age
The future of advertising — one where terms like “automation” and “big data” are more than jargon sprinkled into PowerPoints — may be in the hands of 20-somethings like Mr. Banilevi. Just 23 years old, the Northwestern economics graduate uses eight software programs to buy millions of digital ads each week, plucking them from a […]
Link: The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain | Ramez Naam
The final frontier of digital technology is integrating into your own brain. DARPA wants to go there. Scientists want to go there. Entrepreneurs want to go there. And increasingly, it looks like it’s possible. You’ve probably read bits and pieces about brain implants and prostheses. Let me give you the big picture. Neural implants could accomplish […]
