Stephen Colbert takes a look at the confusing history of everyone’s favorite monopoly.
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Category: General Tech
Zagg Shoots iPad 2 in Slow Motion
On Fixing Tumblr
If Tumblr turned off new user registrations today and added a “notify me when more new users are being accepted” sign-up form, it would provide breathing room to focus on fixing the experience for current customers. Framed correctly, it would also make those customers feel cared for and important, something they probably aren’t feeling so much at the moment. Yes, for prospective customers it would be a slap in the face. Nobody wants to feel shut out. But if given a choice, protect your existing, not future customers. Web services build buzz all the time with limited, invitation-only beta testing intros. It would be a step backwards for Tumblr, but it would also re-establish a sense of exclusivity that would pay dividends after issues are resolved and open enrollment returns.
On Radiation
XKCD’s published a great chart on doses of radiation.
On Instapaper and the NYT Paywalls
Most people add NYT pages from the “Read Later” bookmarklet or the new in-app browser. Pages added from both of these sources are unaffacted by paywalls and login requirements since they both save copies of the page as the viewer sees it.
In other words, if you can see it, Instapaper can save it for you with the bookmarklet or in-app browser. So you’ll still need to pay for a NYT membership if you exceed their monthly thresholds for viewing.
Panic Donating Today’s Sales to Japan
Jim Dalrymple Shows RIM a Real Tablet
iOS Wordpress App Updated
The main focus of this release is to improve the app’s performance and reliability. The app has been moved to Core Data, which is a much improved way of managing information locally on the device. Also, the methods used to communicate over XML-RPC have been updated to better handle communication issues and increase reliability of the app. In total there have been 117 changes in this release.
We’ve cleaned up the Post Editor interface to make it easier to write and edit posts and pages. Simply select the icons along the bottom of the post editor to edit post settings, view attachments and add media. You can also now upload multiple media objects at once!
‘The Fragility of Free’
Ben knocked this one out of the park. I can’t even decide what to blockquote, so just go read it.
On Great Tech Writing
If you run a tech-centric website, then, so far as I see it, there are two paces of posting schedule that your site can take: (a) the breaking news, real-time schedule; or (b) the schedule and pace that you set on your own. Most tech-centric sites opt for the former.
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By making an intentional decision to not pursue a real-time schedule with my site it allows me the space to think and breathe and therefore write things which are more thought related than they are time-sensitive.
Sebastiaan de With’s Vaio UX
Well, this is the smallest Hackintosh I’ve ever seen.
The Power of Bad Ideas
Check out what the user ratings for the official Twitter client have done after the Dickbar release:
