Author: Connor Tomas O’Brien
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Making the Bed You Sleep In
This piece by Frank Chimero is a must-read if you’re the kind of person who obsesses over computer setups, minimal workspaces, and simplicity. In fact, I’d suggest you read Frank’s piece if you’re the kind of person who owns anything. Here’s Frank on ownership vs. access: Access trumps ownership, because access denotes utility and ownership…
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!@$#ing for a living
Nick Cernis imagines a new blogging platform: Imagine a web publishing platform that costs $10 per month. $5 of that $10 goes to the platform company for the boring stuff. The other $5 gets split evenly between the writers, photographers, videographers, designers, and other creative people you follow who also pay to use the platform, up…
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Goodbye, Facebook
Last night I effectively deleted my Facebook account by ratcheting up my privacy settings to the highest possible level. Oh, the calamity! All I can do now is accept invitations to events: anybody who hits my Facebook profile will find a link here, followed by a few old-skool-ish contact details: mobile number, email, and Twitter username. I’m…
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The Blanding of the Internet?
Ben Brooks writes: What I fear… is that perhaps Instapaper, Reeder, Safari Reader, Readability, NetNewsWire, Google Reader, Flipboard, and any other app that allows you to read a site without seeing the actual site are starting to chip away at the personalities each site offers. They are making the web a bit bland. Ben goes…
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Kevin Hartnett on the internet-as-bogeyman: At a certain point, it seemed like every time my wife and I had friends over the conversation turned to the ways the Web was ruining all of our lives: how it was destroying our productivity, sapping our sex drives, devouring our precious time on earth. But in 2011, I…