This oldie-but-goodie 1995 episode of This American Life features Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired and Cool Tools blogger. His story of a “new beginning” had me welled up in a Beijin... Read more

Charlie Park says the sparkline’s lesser-known sibling, the slopegraph, is about to get its day in the sun. I’m already thinking about interesting ways to use these in ThinkUp. Read more

What’s changed is that “blogging as we knew it” is no longer the easiest way to express oneself online, so it is not the choice for the most casual users. You have to be a bit... Read more

Mat Honan, who is ripping it up at Gizmodo, on employers running social media background checks on job candidates: We ran background checks on six Gizmodo employees, including our editor in... Read more

Awesome, free, open source Mac OS X Terminal replacement offers a bunch of features over Terminal.app. Worth mouseless copy, paste history, and instant replay alone. (via) Read more

While “the stream” in Google+ gets tweaked for better privacy control, Google Profiles are now required to be public. From the help document: We believe that using Google Profile... Read more

Now some people are saying that I’m responsible for the broad visual refresh now rolling out across Google, which couldn’t be further from the truth – in fact, I’m no... Read more

That finding can be explained by differences in social sensitivity, which we found is also important to group performance. Many studies have shown that women tend to score higher on tests of... Read more

[Larry] Page seems to recognize that this project in some ways requires a different approach from the Google norm. One variation that users will notice comes in interface design — conspicu... Read more

At the exchange rate the author got, I could have almost afforded 2 hummus plates with my 1 Bitcoin, at the time. Interesting worldwide experiment, indeed. (via) Read more

Thanks to Wave I’m gunshy about recommending unpopular Google products, but I’ll say it: I really like Google TV. True, it’s not the king of usability, but once you get it... Read more

Thanks to Nathan Willis for his thorough article on the current state of the Todo.txt apps universe. This may be just the nudge I need to put some time in moving those projects along—T... Read more

Generally I find “distraction-free text editors” precious and unnecessary, but iA Writer is changing my mind. The typography and the sentence-by-sentence focus are fantastic.... Read more

I was seven years old when this fascinating 1982 New York Times article published, reporting on a study which predicts the internet: A report commissioned by the National Science Foundation... Read more

Mitch responds to Why Not Tumblr and gets to the heart of our different attitudes about publishing web content. Is it “tears in rain” or “books on a shelf”? Both are... Read more