Posts tagged with "Link"

‘Fight between bald eagle and Canada goose in Burlington bay ‘very symbolic,’ says photographer’ – CBC

‘Instagram is now a (photo) information network’ – Om Malik Photos and videos are increasingly used for informational reasons rather than just for pure aesthetic and artistic purposes. You can do a much better job of selling yourself with images and videos. I mean, coffee looks more enticing when being made and showcased on video. The same goes for liquid nitrogen being poured over some deconstructed fish or whatever. Everyone is advertising everything. Read more →

‘Toxic preconditions’ – Oliver Burkeman (The Inperfectionist) Another great article from Burkeman. This time on how we let fear hold us back. It can be so powerfully liberating – and action-triggering – to understand that the uncertainty and insecurity you imagine you’re avoiding is in fact how things already are for you. As the great Elizabeth Gilbert puts it: “You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control. Read more →

‘Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino’ – John Gruber (Daring Fireball) Gruber talks about how the release date for the headline features of Apple Intelligence have been pushed back, and aren’t due to be released any time soon. What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a company in disarray, if not crisis. Read more →

Tracy Durnell: Some ideas warrant 300 pages. A very few justify 600. But many 100-page ideas are bloated into the 300-page form factor — from my understanding (which may well be wrong), because Americans want to feel like we’ve gotten our money’s worth? Perhaps this desire for brevity makes me sound unfocused, but the seeming depth of a 300-pager is often illusory. I suspect I’m not the only one who’d like more 100-page ideas without the padding. Read more →

Writing the ‘about me’ section on social networks can be tough. And I’ve seen plenty of dull and bad ones (including my own). But over on Micro.blog, I love Miraz Jordan’s: I love simplicity and silence. I enjoy taking photos of birds. I also enjoy drinking tea - green, white, yellow, but not black. I live at Waikawa Beach in New Zealand, which I love, and strive to be an actively decent human being. Read more →