Tim Bray compares his mini-cafe/Book Store experience to a Big Box store. I found myself in a big-box bookstore thinking this place is dead. From where I stood, I could see no books I wanted to buy. And if I had, I would’ve been inclined to get the EPub for my Android. And I could see no incentive to sit down, or in fact to stay; so I left. (more)

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Semiotics dude. (more)

whole lotta people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa (more)

Terry Teachout on Ted Koppel and network news (TV Journalism). But shows like "CBS Reports" and "NBC White Paper" were launched not out of a longing to serve the public, but because Paley, Stanton, Sarnoff and Goldenson were afraid of losing their broadcast licenses in the wake of the quiz-show scandals. It is especially comical to see Mr. Minow, who ought to know better, praising the high-mindedness of William Paley, whose chief contribution to news at CBS was his decision to pull the plug on "See It Now," Edward R Murrow's pioneering weekly documentary series, because it was too controversial.

Pingpad update brings organizational layer to Slack (more)

Livongo Acquires Diabeto. ...acquired Diabeto, Inc.TM, which provides comprehensive connectivity to nearly all glucose meters available on the market today. Diabeto uses a proprietary technology to make it easier for people with diabetes to upload their blood glucose readings into Diabeto enabled apps and to Livongo’s newly released iOS and Android apps, available exclusively to Livongo members. (more)

SSL library (more)

Alex Kantrowitz: Why Augmented Reality Is About To Take Over Your World (more)

Why is ARKit better than the alternatives? Technically ARKit is a Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) system, with some simple 2D plane detection. VIO means that the software tracks your position in space (your 6dof pose) in real-time ie your pose is recalculated in between every frame refresh on your display (more)

Basecamp for 3 iOS: Hybrid Architecture – Signal v. Noise (more)

University of Southern California

Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences.[8] Despite the involvement of a number of psychosocial factors, a biological process – one which is induced by repeated exposure to an addictive stimulus – is the core pathology that drives the development and maintenance of an addiction.[1][9] The two properties that characterize all addictive stimuli are that they are reinforcing (i.e., they increase the likelihood that a person will seek repeated exposure to them) and intrinsically rewarding (i.e., they are perceived as being inherently positive, desirable, and pleasurable) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction

Michael Ellsberg book, ISBN:1591844207 on Making A Living (more)

Dave Winer says the Tech Crunch-Disrupt doesn't involve anyone doing actual Computer Science, and even university hackathons have the same problem. Somehow they have fixated on turning the internet into a game (Real World Game). The hamsters, you and me, are rewarded for jumping through certain hoops. We enjoy playing this game so we buy things to indicate our pleasure... Instead I'd like to see, at a university hackathon, young computer science students get up and present to their teachers some new computer science. Some new use of graph theory. Or an old one re-applied to a modern world. We used to do that, when I was a comp sci grad student in the 1970s. I think we got way too caught up in the commercialism. (DotCom) I Commented: While Tech Crunch is obviously its own little non-representative sample, it's possible that people coming to hackathons don't necessarily want to get rich, but simply be sustainably self-employed. Because they don't want to end up working for Google or SAP or NYU. (more)

I kicked my Smartphone addiction by retraining my brain to enjoy being bored (more)

Audrey Watters: Dunce’s App (more)

from Game Theory (more)

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.[1] He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg

2nd best? (more)