Month: March 2018

Brian Resnick: Barasch and her colleagues have found evidence that taking pictures to share on social media changes our perspective within our memories. That is: When we’re taking photos to share on social media, we’re more likely to remember the moment from a third-person perspective.

Good read.

This is feels like something Q would cook up.

Also on the Facebook front, this post from Doc Searls is great: Giant Irony Alert: the same is true for the Times, along with every other publication that lives off adtech: surveillance-based advertising. These pubs don’t just open the kimonos of their readers. They treat them as naked beings whose necks are bared to vampires […]

Now this is a comment on Reddit, so let’s be upfront about that, but the redditor has plenty of sources to back up what he says — quite interesting. I feel like I knew most of this, but never connected the dots on it. (In case you are not a Reddit person, scroll to the […]

Speaking of small and expensive keyboards, here’s another good read. (h/t to Julia.)

A good read, I’m a huge fan of the 60% form factor which eliminates the arrow keys. I can see the argument for them, but 60% is considerably smaller.

Zeynep Tufekci: Mr. Grewal is right: This wasn’t a breach in the technical sense. It is something even more troubling: an all-too-natural consequence of Facebook’s business model, which involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance. The results of that surveillance are […]

Months ago, Studio Neat sent me a note to ask if I wanted to test their take on a pen — and of course I did. I’ve been waiting for this to see the light of day, because it’s a fantastic pen. I have a prototype that slightly varies from the final production version, but I […]

I really want to love this bag as it looks really good, but every time I see real world photos I am glad I didn’t buy one. The bags always look dirty, dusty, and covered in dog hair. And that’s not a knock on reviewers, but rather I suspect the face fabric on these bags […]

Dan Mitchell taking Manjoo to task: After trying, and failing, to get him to own up to the fact that his assertion that he had “unplugged” from social media was not true, I asked him whether perhaps his use of social media was messing with his own self-perception. He didn’t respond to that question.

Reading this is like reading “You can make your Muscle Car More Fuel Efficient—Here’s How” or “You can make Hot Pockets More Healthy—Here’s How”. Because Slack isn’t made to be, and never attempted to be, something which isn’t attention grabbing. The entire point of Slack is to grab attention. It’s terrible. I’d get a better […]

Farhad Manjoo: Just about every problem we battle in understanding the news today — and every one we will battle tomorrow — is exacerbated by plugging into the social-media herd. The built-in incentives on Twitter and Facebook reward speed over depth, hot takes over facts and seasoned propagandists over well-meaning analyzers of news. Must read […]