Wow.

Wow.

16 May 2013 10 Permalink

Taking Down Disqus Comments

I am finding that Disqus style comments are increasingly out of step on Tumblr. The overwhelming majority of interaction here is native Tumblr reposting, likes, and replies.

If you are a Tumblr non-user, I suggest you get an account and try it. Here’s a post where I describe how rich the ‘inside view’ is at Tumblr.

If you’d like to chat with me about something posted here you can try @stoweboyd on Twitter, click on the ‘contact me’ or ‘ask me anything’ in the right hand margin. 

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People tend to sit most where there are more places to sit.

William H White, The Social Life of Small Places

And, in cities, what other characteristic jumps out about where people sit: there are many people sitting there, too, so — at peak times — it turns out to be a place where it is difficult to find a place to sit.

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All new ideas comes from dreams.

Tomonori Kagaya (via Springwise)

Source: springwise.com

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Facebook Phone Flops

Wow, it’s even worse of an idea than I thought.

Zach Epstein, HTC First discontinued by AT&T: First ‘Facebook phone’ a flop

The HTC First, or “Facebook phone” as many prefer to call it, is officially a flop. It certainly wasn’t a good sign when AT&T dropped the price of HTC’s First to $0.99 just one month after its debut, and now BGR has confirmed that HTC and Facebook’s little experiment is nearing its end. BGR has learned from a trusted source that sales of the HTC First have been shockingly bad. So bad, in fact, that AT&T has already decided to discontinue the phone.

Our source at AT&T has confirmed that the HTC First, which is the first smartphone to ship with Facebook Home pre-installed, will soon be discontinued and unsold inventory will be returned to HTC. How much unsold inventory is there? We don’t have an exact figure, but things aren’t looking good. According to our source, AT&T sold fewer than 15,000 units nationwide through last week when the phone’s price was slashed to $0.99.

I wonder if that’s the end of Facebook Home, or just this variant?

Source: bgr.com

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(via INCIDENTAL COMICS: Rules for Freelancers)

(via INCIDENTAL COMICS: Rules for Freelancers)

Source: incidentalcomics.com

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Families who are living in poverty did not spend this nation into debt, and we should not be trying to balance the budget on their backs.

Kirsten Gillibrand

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It’s about moments in life that are great but don’t last. They don’t go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That’s what I was thinking about.

Sofia Coppola on Lost In Translation

Source: fuckyeahsofia-coppola

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springwise: Roving agency ‘pops up’ for 48-hour projects at client sites We’ve seen virtually innumerable variations on the “pop-up” theme over the years, but recently we came across one we hadn’t seen before. Enter the Pop Up Agency, a group of six creative students who take residency at clients’ sites for 48 hours, deliver a concept or strategy, and then move on to their next destination. READ MORE…

springwise:

Roving agency ‘pops up’ for 48-hour projects at client sites

We’ve seen virtually innumerable variations on the “pop-up” theme over the years, but recently we came across one we hadn’t seen before. Enter the Pop Up Agency, a group of six creative students who take residency at clients’ sites for 48 hours, deliver a concept or strategy, and then move on to their next destination. READ MORE…

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inthedarkarcade: Following on from my previous post, I also did the TV programme’s cover.  It was more than a little daunting drawing Crumb as his self portraits are such impressive things in the first place. Here are the festival details, from my previous post: I did this illustration for All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, curated by TV on the Radio, this weekend. A music festival that invites a different band each time to select the other artists that perform. More information here: http://www.atpfestival.com/ There are TVs in all the chalets and the festival+band pick what you watch.  I’m going to be doing some comics/illustration related thing at the next festival in June - http://www.atpfestival.com/events/deerhunter.php   If you’re going let me know and we can arrange to become drunken together. A great premise for a conference too. Pick a conference chair who picks all the speakers. (That’s what I did for the Social Business Edge conference in 2010.)

inthedarkarcade:

Following on from my previous post, I also did the TV programme’s cover. 

It was more than a little daunting drawing Crumb as his self portraits are such impressive things in the first place.

Here are the festival details, from my previous post:

I did this illustration for All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, curated by TV on the Radio, this weekend. A music festival that invites a different band each time to select the other artists that perform. More information here: http://www.atpfestival.com/

There are TVs in all the chalets and the festival+band pick what you watch. 

I’m going to be doing some comics/illustration related thing at the next festival in June - http://www.atpfestival.com/events/deerhunter.php  

If you’re going let me know and we can arrange to become drunken together.

A great premise for a conference too. Pick a conference chair who picks all the speakers. (That’s what I did for the Social Business Edge conference in 2010.)

Source: inthedarkarcade

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