Favorites — Readability

Slavoj Žižek at his home in Lubljana. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Slavoj Žižek doesn't know the door number of his own apartment in Ljubljana. "Doesn't matter," he tells the…

nytimes.com 2min

Your Brain on Fiction

By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL March 17, 2012

AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an…

mcsweeneys.net 2min

Buying This Thing Will Make Me Happy.

Buying This Thing Will Make Me Happy. I know what you’re thinking, so don’t even say it. Buying that thing won’t make you happy, is what you’re thinking. Buying things never…

garyrubinstein.teachforus.org 5min

Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 2

By Gary Rubinstein Feb. 28, 2012

In part 1 I demonstrated there was little correlation between how a teacher was rated in 2009 to how that same teacher was rated in 2010. So what can be more crazy than a teacher being rated…

forbes.com 5min

How Long-Form Journalism Is Finding Its Digital Audience

Feb. 23, 2012

I recently took part in a round-table discussion on “the future of content” — not that I or anyone there has a crystal ball. At one point during the exchange it was suggested that…

blog.readability.com 1min

Read Twitter Links Comfortably with Tweetbot & Readability

Feb. 8, 2012

The experience of opening and reading links via Twitter on your mobile phone is less than ideal. Web pages just aren’t designed to handle all the shapes and sizes of devices you’re…

themorningnews.org 9min

The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

By Paul Ford

When I tell people what we are doing, they want to hear about the room where you produce. I tell them that there is a lot of paperwork. That they take your picture and look at your license. Then…

darrenhoyt.com 5min

Wireless Void

Dec. 15, 2011

My favorite piece of writing in the last year was “Sad as Hell”, published by n+1. Officially it’s a book review for Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story. Unofficially…

mattgemmell.com 3min

SEO for Non-dicks

By Matt Legend Gemmell Sept. 20, 2011

I recently read an account of John McElborough s talk at Brighton SEO 2011 , wherein he advocated some ethically questionable SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) tactics involving creating a private…

dougvs.tumblr.com 2min

How I Got My Stolen Laptop Back Within 24 Hours Using Prey

Last weekend, my briefcase was stolen out of our vehicle while it was parked outside of a Bed & Breakfast. In the bag was my Macbook laptop. Apparently while I was moving all of our stuff into…

wired.com 14min

Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a ReligionNot a Holy War

By Jason Fagone July 15, 2011

The USB memory stick contained the sole copy of a videogame unlike any created before. Photo: Jason Pietra Jason Rohrer is known as much for his eccentric lifestyle as for the brilliant, unusual…

theatlantic.com 5min

A Blind User's Profound Review of the iPhone

By Austin Seraphin Sept. 22, 2010

Editor's Note: This review of the iPhone will probably be the deepest you'll ever read. Austin Seraphin is legally blind, though he can some light and color. He believes the device is the future of…

waxy.org 8min

Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator

Telehack is the most interesting game I've played in the last year... a game that most users won't realize is a game at all. It's a tour de force hack — an interactive pastiche of 1980s…

blog.wolfram.com 3min

What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? Make Him Walk the Plank! «…

June 8, 2011

June 8, 2011 — Jon McLoone, International Business & Strategic Development Back in 1988 when

jenepting.com 3min

On being "away."

By Jen May 27, 2012

So I read this blog post by Steven Berlin Johnson over a week ago and I can't stop thinking about it. Steven B. Johnson is an author and thinker about innovation who lives in Brooklyn. I heard him…

mashable.com 4min

Can Modern Mobile Web Apps Loosen Apple's Grip on Tablet Publishing?

By Matt Silverman May 24, 2011

By now there’s little question that the iPad has defined the modern tablet, and media companies have tackled the promising concept of digital subscription publishing with varying degrees of success.…

ftrain.com 8min

Nanolaw with Daughter

May 16, 2011

Why privacy mattered. On a Sunday morning before her soccer practice, not long after my daughter's tenth birthday, she and I sat down on the couch with our tablets and I taught her to respond to…

theawl.com 4min

Thaw

By Jeffrey MacIntyre

Most days upstate, we’re tearing pages from the Iron and Wine songbook. Big box stores it is not. Yet here we are in midwinter at a first light trip, a county away from our Hudson Valley home,…

aworkinglibrary.com 5min

Chris' Favorites

Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'

Your Brain on Fiction

Buying This Thing Will Make Me Happy.

Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 2

How Long-Form Journalism Is Finding Its Digital Audience

Read Twitter Links Comfortably with Tweetbot & Readability

The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Wireless Void

SEO for Non-dicks

How I Got My Stolen Laptop Back Within 24 Hours Using Prey

Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a ReligionNot a Holy War

A Blind User's Profound Review of the iPhone

Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator

What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? Make Him Walk the Plank! «…

On being "away."

Can Modern Mobile Web Apps Loosen Apple's Grip on Tablet Publishing?

Nanolaw with Daughter

Thaw

On the news / from a working library

Stop Calling it Content

The Anatomy of Determination

The New Readability

Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'

Your Brain on Fiction

Buying This Thing Will Make Me Happy.

Analyzing Released NYC Value-Added Data Part 2

How Long-Form Journalism Is Finding Its Digital Audience

Read Twitter Links Comfortably with Tweetbot & Readability

The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Wireless Void

SEO for Non-dicks

How I Got My Stolen Laptop Back Within 24 Hours Using Prey

Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a ReligionNot a Holy War

A Blind User's Profound Review of the iPhone

Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator

What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? Make Him Walk the Plank! «…

On being "away."

Can Modern Mobile Web Apps Loosen Apple's Grip on Tablet Publishing?

Nanolaw with Daughter

Thaw

On the news / from a working library

Stop Calling it Content

The Anatomy of Determination

The New Readability

Readability for iOS

Readability for Android