February 2012
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December 2011
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Facebook’s “talking about this”
So I was sitting in a presentation from a Facebook rep today, a guy who did his best to slaughter everyone in the room by first lulling us all to sleep. He was recapping their recent announcements, nothing you haven’t heard.
While I was sitting there contemplating the swift, gracious death that might be bestowed on me were I more fortunate, I noticed a theme in what the rep was saying.
The first...
November 2011
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“The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready, it goes on because...”
– Lorne Michaels
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“In New York, people are assholes because the city is so big and chaotic that you...”
– Having just spent some time in Philly, I don’t think this is true at all. I could not however help sharing this.
(The source will remain anonymous for their own well-being)
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Mistakes Are There To Be Made
I have a new post up at Uncluttered White Spaces, looking at the art of making mistakes, and the challenge we inherit when we stop making them:
When you’re right though, that’s when the trouble starts. That’s when the business grows. That’s when the phone rings. When you’re right it’s a call to arms, it is life asking you to step outside your comfort zone. You can of course ignore the call, and...
October 2011
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September 2011
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"We're in the writer-reader connection business"
That statement was made as part of a talk I have referred to and shared so many times now you would think I was on some kind of commission. The source, Richard Nash said it as part of a keynote he gave at a gathering in Toronto of book publishers. It’s available here, you should watch it if you haven’t.
At the time Richard was in the process of pulling together a start-up, Cursor,...
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This bird had flown
When I was going to university a good decade ago now, I was a book worm. I was obsessed and constantly reading anything I could get my hands on. These days I still do, but something happened along the way: for the most part, I no longer read fiction. In the last couple years, the only fiction books that spring to mind are Cory Doctorow’s Makers, and Michael Chabon’s Yiddish...
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July 2011
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When the revolution comes
Sara: do you listen to paolo nutini
David Gillespie: Hmm I remember hearing him when he first came out, Jenny Don't Be Hasty. I didn't really pick him up more than that though. I lumped him with James Blunt, who, for me, is first against the wall when the revolution comes. I could have been wrong about him though, Paolo that is. James Blunt is getting fucking shot.
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May 2011
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A Proportional Response
From The West Wing:
Bartlet: Did you know that two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation? He could walk across the Earth unharmed, cloaked only in the protection of the words civis Romanus — I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally certain, should any harm befall even one of its...
April 2011
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The level of discourse in my apartment
Me: I watched a documentary on public education in the US over the weekend. I sat on the couch with tears streaming down my face.
Renee: I watched Glee. It made me cry too.
Me: ...we're not talking about the same thing.
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March 2011
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Work Drugs - Rad Racer
Rad Racer by Work Drugs
In the words of Kiwi band The Feelers “And if there’s anything worth saving, bring on the weekend”
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The myth of the City of Angels
Los Angeles is a city with myths surrounding it like few others. I’d argue that the idea of Los Angeles excites more than the idea of any other North American city. Even more than New York. Especially more than New York.
More than New York because invariably anyone who has dreamed of going to New York has wandered up through Central Park, around the cute-as-fuck neighbourhoods that make up...
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Hey you, what's that sound?
Thinking aloud on why the creation of audio hasn’t shot along at the same pace as video, image and text. I will be thinking about this quite a bit… at Rainford St by davidgillespie
As the description says about, I was thinking aloud about audio on the web, and my gut says it hasn’t moved into the mainstream web the way sharing text, video and images have. I suppose what I...