Ephemera and found items from the travels of Ian Fitzpatrick
Frankly, I think that there are more interesting ways for Bit.ly to create products for the marketplace that leverage the unique nature of the data that people are creating with their tool – be it via the bit.ly website, a plugin or a 3rd party application.
On What Bit.ly Could Be Doing With All of that Data
(Source: bealmighty.com)
pretty incredible photos of an abandoned Soviet submarine base, via HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT
Laura Barnard
Exhibitionist (by Laser Bread)
Instead, think about getting together with friends that you admire, or envy. Think about entrepeneuring. Think about NOT waiting for a company to call you up. Think about not giving your heart to a bunch of adults you don’t know. Think about horizontal loyalty. Think about turning to people you already know, who are your friends, or friends of their friends and making something that makes sense to you together, that is as beautiful or as true as you can make it.
from Robert Krulwich’s commencement speech to the Berkeley Journalism School’s Class of 2011
(Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com)
Gaga
the greatest pleasures in life are created over time with deliberation, are savory and best served thinly sliced.
