Tech & Etc

The design is meh; it’s good enough but that’s not going to cut it in this space.  I may be wrong on this one (see Tripadvisor) but I think that’s what the guys at Gogobot are trying to do.

So for me,  the venerable guidebook – digitized – may still offer the best way to explore unfamiliar cities.

Writing good directions is not unlike poetry: an exercise in awareness, requiring an eye for detail and succinct but evocative language

When are we, as users, going to start self-curating ourselves?  Because these products aren’t going to do it.  Facebook and Twitter and Google and Groupon aren’t going to build tools that will allow you to slow down...

Your photos already carry the narrative elements of who, what, where, when and how whenever you upload them to Flickr. Browse Flickr and you’ll see stories within stories — photos within photostreams within groups or any kinds of combinations. So we’ve made it easier to find when a photo

From the Editorial Observer: This represents a shift away from the view of education as the process of intellectual engagement through which we learn to think critically and toward the view of education as mere training. In training, you are trying to find the right answer at any cost, not