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David Jacobs
Upper West Side
"If y'all can't cook, this doesn't concern you."<br /> — Kevin Garnett
Interests: sleeping, blogging, baseball, parenting, espresso, reading, IMing.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Yahoo's Acquisition of Tumblr
All of these questions are variations on "Why did Yahoo! spend one-third of their cash on hand to buy a company that by all accounts is about to run out of money?" Read this post, and hopefully these questions will... Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at hello typepad
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David Jacobs added a favorite at Adventures in the Pointless Forest
Apr 3, 2013
Google's Turn to the Dark Side
According to BuzzFeed, Google Reader Still Drives Far More Traffic Than Google+: According to data from the BuzzFeed Network, a set of tracked partner sites that collectively have over 300 million users, Google Reader is still a significant source of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2013 at hello typepad
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The Near Past
Posted Mar 9, 2013 at hello typepad
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Yes!
Commented Feb 26, 2013 on Keynote Graveyard at hello typepad
Keynote Graveyard
This has long been one of my favorite slides in 29th Street Publishing's deck. Lev, not quite two, reads the New York Times' Book Review while sitting in his mother's lap. The point of the slide is that reading apps (iPad publications, iBooks, e-Readers, etc.) have a long way to go to match the...
Keynote Graveyard
Posted Feb 25, 2013 at hello typepad
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(Re)Introducing the Microcontent Client
In its ideal implementation, the microcontent browser is a combination of a desktop software application and well-designed web services, interacting together to parse our existing HTML, XHTML, and XML documents into tomorrow's semantic web. via dashes.com It feels a little... Continue reading
Reblogged Feb 11, 2013 at hello typepad
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David Jacobs added a favorite at Andre's Notes
Jan 29, 2013
Chris, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcz_kDCBTBk
Commented Jan 26, 2013 on Whatever Happened Happened at hello typepad
Whatever Happened Happened
Overheard at Sundance, 2007: No seriously, hear me out. Let's say Sith artifacts can enable their bearers to travel through time (there is semi-canonical precedent for this), why not reboot the franchise? I'm SURE I can get ABC on board, as long as we sign before they find out we have no plan f...
Whatever Happened Happened
Overheard at Sundance, 2007: No seriously, hear me out. Let's say Sith artifacts can enable their bearers to travel through time (there is semi-canonical precedent for this), why not reboot the franchise? I'm SURE I can get ABC on board,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2013 at hello typepad
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Announcing Maura Magazine
Bloggers by nature are readers, writers, editors, social media experts, system administrators, designers and publishers. As tools improved, some of these specializations became less necessary and the barrier to entry lowered — for instance, TypePad and Wordpress obviated the need... Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2013 at hello typepad
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David Jacobs added a favorite at alaina browne lives here
Jan 7, 2013
It's the Weekend
The hottest new app is The Awl: Weekend Companion. It's got voting machines by Maria Bustillos, cooking for Sandy refugees by Emily Gould, original artwork, the guy who wrote the OTHER Cloud Atlas, the Y2K bug, the backstory of the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 30, 2012 at hello typepad
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David Jacobs added a favorite at nataliepo
Nov 30, 2012
I agree with you. - I didn't think this through enough before posting. But there are a ton of things that the Postal Service could sell that they don't. For starters, business services - figure out what all those people lined up want and figure out how to package it up! This isn't just return receipt & pick-up, this is basic services like reliable address forwarding, auto-responder postcards when you move, etc. What about more reliable mail delivery TO you, not just from you? I'd pay another .50c for every bill & check to make sure they arrived in a timely manner.
Commented Nov 23, 2012 on The Postal Service at hello typepad
The Postal Service
@alexandrak @barackobama PREACH!— Chrysanthe Tenentes (@eqx1979) November 12, 2012 Spend an hour in the Koreatown post office (by the way, there is no way to spend LESS than an hour because of the lines), it's at 39 w. 31st St., near Broadway. The amount of commerce & mail coming in and out is ...
The Five Second Rule
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Reblogged Nov 22, 2012 at hello typepad
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Kiarostami’s Tokyo by Ian Buruma
Kiarostami’s idea for the film began with an image. Driving in a taxi through the raffish entertainment district of Roppongi, he filmed an elderly lady standing on a street corner. Who she was, what she was doing, why she was... Continue reading
Reblogged Nov 13, 2012 at hello typepad
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The Postal Service
@alexandrak @barackobama PREACH!— Chrysanthe Tenentes (@eqx1979) November 12, 2012 Spend an hour in the Koreatown post office (by the way, there is no way to spend LESS than an hour because of the lines), it's at 39 w. 31st St.,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 11, 2012 at hello typepad
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Sandy Update #5
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Posted Oct 31, 2012 at hello typepad
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Sandy Update #4
For the most part we've worked from home through the last few days, I'd say at 65-75% attention, but that's to be expected. Some tools have made our work easier. Here is a list of them! The obvious: Github, Dropbox,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2012 at hello typepad
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Sandy Update #3
Posted Oct 30, 2012 at hello typepad
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Sandy Update #2
When will there be a course in sign-language conducted entirely in animated gifs? I'd like something similar to what Lifeprint offers, but with a larger vocabulary and modern web capabilities. neighbor Related, Flying Words: In 2003, Slope, an on line... Continue reading
Posted Oct 30, 2012 at hello typepad
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Sandy Update
We are lucky to have power, internet access, cell service and water. I would say most of our friends are without at least two of those, and thankfully almost everyone we've checked in with has water. Also getting sporadic reports... Continue reading
Posted Oct 30, 2012 at hello typepad
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Thank you for the kind words! I really appreciate it.
Commented Oct 26, 2012 on Cutting Through the Kudzu at Djchall's Micro Blog
Cutting Through the Kudzu
This pattern began to manifest itself most nefariously in what we call the web kudzu of 2010 and 2011 — inline ads that turned keywords into links, URL shorteners, video ads that took over an entire page without warning, and so on. We continued (and continue!) to spend significant time with clie...
David Jacobs added a favorite at Djchall's Micro Blog
Oct 26, 2012
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