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David McCandless and Kathryn Ariel Kay made a word-cloud of the most repeated relationship advice from across 25 popular relationship guides for the website, Information is Beautiful.
The graphic is filled with good advice, albeit from sources that disproportionately cater to women. I also like how the graphics on Information Is Beautiful always show their work.
John Siracusa’s post, The Road to Geekdom brings up some interesting points about geek culture:
Geekdom is not a club; it’s a destination, open to anyone who wants to put in the time and effort to travel there. And if someone lacks the opportunity to get there, we geeks should help in any way we can.
John spoke in-depth about this article on a few recent podcasts:
As geekdom becomes less of a fringe quirk and more an aspirational badge, those who consider themselves true geeks might start to feel threatened as the walls of their knowledge kingdoms come tumbling down. However, if they are concerned about the object of their interest becoming less cool as it becomes mainstream, that would make them hipsters, not geeks.
What ever the object of attention—comics, cars, computers, sportsball, etc.—the information needed to become a geek is out there, readily available to anyone who cares enough to seek it out. However, there is nowhere to download the required enthusiasm.
There’s been a lot of excitement on the web today about Getty Images allowing visitors to embed their photos across the web.
With people increasingly turning to imagery to communicate and tell their stories online, the embed capability opens up Getty Images’ award-winning imagery for seamless sharing. Through the embed tool, individuals can draw on Getty Images’ latest news, sports, celebrity, music and fashion coverage; immense digital photo archive; and rich conceptual images to illustrate their unique passions, ideas and interests. This innovation opens one of the largest, deepest and most comprehensive image collections in the world for easy sharing, thereby making the world an even more visual place.
The embeds look like this:
This isn’t a radical new feature. Youtube, Vimeo, Flickr, Instagram, and many other web media companies have made their content available to embed for years. This often results in their content going viral and being spread far and wide across the web. The difference is those companies don’t earn their primary revenue from licensing their content for others’ to publish.
Introducing the feature is a smart move on Getty’s part, but it is surprising that they waited so long to release it. Their management team must have finally accepted that the network value of viral media was worth the amount it would undercut their licensing revenue. The feature will bring more links to their site and show off their work and brand to a wider audience.
Automatically including the attribution for each photo is useful, and it opens up their library of images to publishers who would not or cannot buy a proper license. However, there are a few key features missing from their embed code—features that were probably left out on purpose or because of some backroom bickering—such as being able to edit the image size or make the image fluidly resize on a responsive web page. These limitations protect Getty’s image licensing business, making sure it is still attractive to better funded web publishers and news organizations. However, the limitations will slow the adoption of the feature, since the embedded images will show up strangely in many website templates. Perhaps these features are coming soon, but until they do there will be some goofy looking pages.
Being there–in the arena–gives you the clarity of experience; it’s a sixth sense that is the ability to know which pieces of advice are important. Unfortunately, the most important lessons you can learn from people with experience tend to be things you don’t think are important until you have experience.
Today we celebrated my middle child’s second birthday. His buddies and their families gathered together for a fun get together at his favorite playground.
It’s amazing to think “I have a two-year old!” And then even more amazing to remember that he’s not the oldest or the youngest. He’s the best friend to his older brother and a loving protector to his little sister.
He has been such a joy to be around for the first two years of his life. I look forward to watching him get bigger, getting to know him as he starts to talk more, and being there for him as he grows into a young man.
Happy Birthday, son!
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Jon Bois created one of the most lopsided football games ever. Sunday’s Super Bowl should be closer. I remember fixing games by creating souped-up players with unbeatable abilities like this in one of the older PC NBA games years ago, but I never achieved a point spread like his.
Google is building an army—a robot army—through a series of recent acquisitions. It’s interesting to see the variety of real world applications these robotics companies are already pursuing and imagine what they will be able to do in the future. Gizmodo recently took a closer look at what the eight most recent acquisitions are making.
Robot technology would help with self-driving cars, certainly, but the range of these acquisitions hints at even broader ambitions. Again, we don’t know much. They’re all a part of the Google X division, which is top secret by definition. We do know what the new companies in the Google family are up to, though, and that might offer us some clues.
Personally, I’ll feel safer driving in South Florida once robots pilot more of the vehicles on the road. Robot drivers will be far more predictable than the ones on the road now. However, I’m not sure how I’d feel about this guy walking down the street towards me…
…or have this thing galloping in my direction.
Thank goodness for this ESPN summary of the 2013 NFL season. Without it, I’d be completely lost going into Sunday’s Super Bowl.
If you’re like me and don’t watch any games besides the big one at the end, it only takes 160 seconds to catch up on the action and stories.
All the chatter about the 30 year anniversary of the Mac today got me thinking about Steve Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech.
It’s still so good. And here’s a cool graphical depiction of his speech.
Sometimes it’s best to just enjoy a moment. Sometimes you’ll pay attention to it more with a camera in hand. Sometimes you create the moment by messing with someone with a strong opinion.