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Designing and building for a high ratio of daily/monthly active users
Two good, financially driven articles from Monday Note about Facebook and Apple and Amazon
Stumblrd across this Ryan Freitas thought about how interaction designer is a “squishy” job title under threat due to a movement described in Chris Dixon’s The Experience Economy
Noticed a common thread about how distracted we are due to the incoming barrage of information. Joe Kraus’ “SlowTech” talk is great
Another common thread: Fame. Robin Sloan wrote about the flavors of fame and Rishad Tobaccowala shares “obscurity is the new poverty”
“…perfectly targeted advertising is just information.”
The Awl and Percolate recently teamed up to launch a site that covers the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election. The site is called Approve This Message and the Nieman Journalism Lab has a great piece covering its launch. The first sentence is one of my favorite sentences: “The Awl sure likes to build stuff.”
I went to the Digiday Publishing Summit last week and was a part of a panel discussion. Afterwards, they asked me to be in a video where I talk about my job. Here’s the result of the video interview.
A big bonus for me was that the video was on the Digiday.com homepage the same day as a profile of Noah Brier and Percolate.
Two of my favorite web personalities have a big week in video. Post two of two.
Two of my favorite web personalities have a big week in video. Post one of two.
