My old roommate was a master foodie. Cooking was his passion and, by God, he was good at it. He would eat some of the weirdest things (peanut butter and curry sandwiches were not unusual), but in his generous experimentation, I never tasted anything that wasn’t two miles past delicious....
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Games journalists (should) play
Level upLately, I’ve been reading a lot more about game mechanics in media sites. They can be addictive, even with little else compelling to offer: I get very little out of FourSquare since almost none of my friends have accounts, and of even those few none actively use it.
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"Don't be cryptic, don't be stupid, and please don't be dull."
From 37Signals Manifesto.
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What is a journalist's job?
There’s a great post by Jeff Atwood on the importance of elevator pitch test out of which I snip the following: <blockquote>Software developers think their job is writing code. But it’s not.* Their job is to solve the customer’s problem. Sure, our preferred medium for solving problems is software, and...
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Facebook's 'great betrayal' does users a favor
Two points, perhaps slightly contradictory:
Facebook's new privacy rollout is doing users a favor.
"Free" may be the limit that social networks can, by and large, charge users, but it means the users aren't the customers.
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