After last year’s bracket column, a number of you happily reported that your wallet was a little heavier after winning your pool on the championship game. Chris and I were happy to oblige and decided to repeat this year. (Speaking of repeat: We hope you do, too.) His picks are still being worked on, but since we’re cutting it close: (more…)
GalleryThis is Madness: 2013 Edition
Wahoo! It’s the annual March Madness aggregation of all the coverage from across the web. Chris and I will be co-writing a piece this Wednesday with our thoughts on the seedings, upsets, and final picks for the 2013 tournament, but until then… (more…)
GalleryGoogle Reader: Why Filtering Distractions Is Key to the Future of Online Content
Google Reader had more written about its demise than there was about its launch, but all the coverage I’ve read has grossly, spectacularly missed the mark on why Reader (more importantly RSS in general) is so valuable now more than ever.
That’s not surprising in the least nor is it the fault of people that loved Google Reader. Their reasons for using it were about centralizing the articles, videos, and photos they previously had to load in separate tabs. Opening everything you want to read in a new window is a daunting task if your reading […]
GalleryMorning Glory: Ambient Noise to Boost Your Productivity
You know it actually works when I’m updating this blog…
- Lifehacker caffeinates your productivity with Coffitivity, an app built on the idea that the four hipsters next to you banging away on their Macbooks are actually there to help. (I believe every word of that research.)
- co.Exist promises my mind will be blown by this video on wealth distribution in the good ol’ U.S. of A. Worth the watch, but most libertarians I know have been singing this song since the early 2000′s. (more…)
GalleryWhy Facebook Graph Search is Flawed
It’s in vogue to hate on every new Facebook feature (and I’ll discuss why that’s obnoxious in another post), but I first wanted to address an interesting part of FastCompany’s coverage on the inevitable privacy concerns:
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GalleryA List of People Who Should Never Discuss Politics Again
The most satisfying part about last night’s election results wasn’t the winner. It was when the opinions, false equivalencies, credibility, and egos of the (mostly right-wing) “pundits” (If we define ‘pundit’ as someone who eats glue ) were proven wholly irrelevant by New York Times’ Nate Silver. I’ve never been mistaken for a hipster, but I’ve totally been following Silver’s 538 blog since before it was cool.
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Gallery9 Best Tweets After GoDaddy Was Hacked
Anyone with the unfortunate experience of having GoDaddy as a domain registrar was treated to an avalanche of phone calls today. A lone hacker from Anonymous arranged a DDOS attack against them this afternoon, crashing their servers and taking half the internet with it.
Here’s the best snark from Twitter users after the world’s worst web host was hacked by some kid…
GalleryMorning Glory: Grooveshark Gets an App
My clients at Steam Communications are humming along with their digital endeavors, so I haven’t had sufficient time to update this space. However, I’ll be churning out more content (at least one full article and daily links) in preparation for version 2 of my personal site. With that in mind…
How I Stay Productive
The internet has a headache-inducing number of blog posts, “How-To’s”, and checklists about keeping yourself productive. That much reading on a topic so banal can and will fry your brain if you want to stay on top of it and tweak the way you eat your breakfast cereal.
I work full-time, run a startup, will soon begin training interns and hiring freelance staff, manage to keep up on news, work out, and still enjoy somewhat of a social life. I do this using three – and only three – bullets.
