Maybe more appropriately titled “OpenID for less-Super Users”, this is a nice post covering the basics of the authentication system. Visit site »
Kathy’s take on some people’s interpretation of The Wisdom of Crowds (which I’m actually reading right now). Good stuff. I think there are some things that just can’t be done by committee, and design is one of them. Committees usually end up with a watered-down, edge-less version of each person’s vision — which is almost always bad. But, to be fair, Surowiecki never meant “committee” when he said “crowd”, either… Visit site »
The title pretty much says it all. Visit site »
Featuring Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc…badass. Visit site »
Oh hell yes. Some very nice vector art sets here at very reasonable prices. Visit site »
“But what makes the long tail so disingenuous is that what happens in the long tail has almost no ramifications on what happens in the head.” Indeed. Insofar as I can tell, Newsvine is about the only “long tail” style web app that has made compensating the users for their user-generated content a part of their business plan. It frightens me to think just how much great stuff is on YouTube that the creators will never see a dime for. Long tail, my ass. Visit site »