ryandeussing.com

hackpad

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:55:00 +0000

I need a wiki. This might do.

findings

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:54:28 +0000

find, organize, and share your highlights

Everyday Carry

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:53:40 +0000

A new fetish!

Designing better user interfaces

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:52:19 +0000

Worth reading.

Mozilla Drumbeat | Projects

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:28:24 +0000

Connect. Share Projects. Hack everything.

Start Making

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:07:35 +0000

Let's see what this turns out to be.

pkamenarsky/atea - GitHub

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:29:24 +0000

A free, opensource minimalistic menu bar time tracker for MacOS

Information Diet | Notifications are evil

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:33:54 +0000

Besides being disrespectful to your attention, notifications like this do something else that's much more nefarious: they train you to be a passive consumer of information rather than an active one.

Dribbble Equipment

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:26:08 +0000

Selling designs to designers. Awesome.

A Look Inside Mobile Design Patterns

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:22:24 +0000

All in the name.

Sourcefabric

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:07:58 +0000

The open source platform to write and publish print and digital books.

The Pry Ecosystem

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:28:29 +0000

Pry + tools ftw.

A Sandwich a Day

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:18:10 +0000

It's all in the name.

Open Source Ecology

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:09:03 +0000

A Network of Farmers, Engineers, and Supporters Building the Global Village Construction Set

findings: Find, Organize, and Share Your Clips

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:35:23 +0000

Import highlights from the books you are reading, collect text from the web, and share them with your friends.

Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:11:13 +0000

Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions

#322 RABL - RailsCasts

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:47:49 +0000

Ruby API Builder Language - provides a DSL for generating JSON or XML responses in a Ruby application.

All posts for | Common Craft

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:01:04 +0000

A series of blog posts by @leelefever that share things he and @sachilefever love.

Retro design is crippling innovation

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:17:48 +0000

Despite being lauded for design, Apple is the reigning champion in this field

A re-introduction to JavaScript - MDN

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:39:36 +0000

Why a re-introduction? Because JavaScript has a reasonable claim to being the world's most misunderstood programming language

Little Friends

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:09:02 +0000

Dogs underwater!

iDoneThis blog : The Servant Leader and the Social Enterprise

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:42:31 +0000

Servant leadership is a culture that spreads and nourishes an organization by leveraging networks and structured engagement

decommodify

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:34:31 +0000

better living through product

textagon - text macro generator

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:30:19 +0000

Fun little app to make justified text blocks.

Designing Preservable Websites, Redux « The Signal: Digital Preservation

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:17:21 +0000

As much as we can do to preserve archived websites once we have them, the challenges we encounter are always already determined by how those websites were originally constructed.

Flickraft

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:41:25 +0000

Rescue your photos from a sinking ship!

Codesonic - The fastest way to become an expert programmer

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:17:34 +0000

Codesonic won't teach you how to program. Codesonic will turn you into a faster, smarter, more knowledgeable programmer.

Hello - thoughtbot playbook

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:15:42 +0000

This is our playbook. It’s intended for anyone who wants to build web and mobile applications, bring them to market, and make customers happy.

Pears

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:38:26 +0000

Collect, test, and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS & HTML

ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:38:19 +0000

ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks

Tutorial: Rails 3.2 with Ruby 1.9.3 on Heroku

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:05:57 +0000

Here’s how to set up an app with Rails 3.2 and Ruby 1.9.3 on Heroku

Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:06:38 +0000

Cool to see tools being built on top of Twitter Bootstrap. I anticipate more.

Iconic Icon Set – 171 icons in raster, vector and font formats — Some Random Dude

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:15:28 +0000

An open source icon set that’s a lot more than just icons

Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery - (37signals)

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:37:28 +0000

One of the most frequently asked questions we get is about how we handle mail delivery and ensure that emails are making it to people’s inboxes.

PharkMillups/beautiful-docs - GitHub

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:52:41 +0000

I love documentation. If you work with/are writing code intended for usage and consumption by more than one person, you should love it, too.

Terminology, Syntax, & Introduction - A Beginners Guide to HTML & CSS

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:33:32 +0000

A very nice looking HTML/CSS primer

Twitter ♥ Open Source

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:32:44 +0000

Twitter has a new Github page. Nice.

dustinrue/ControlPlane - GitHub

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:34:28 +0000

An example of how to use ControlPlane may include disabling the screensaver password while at work but enabling it when away from work. AWESOME!

7courses

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:43:54 +0000

All your recipes, everywhere.

iDoneThis

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:36:03 +0000

Productivity FTW

CoffeeScript: two sugars, no bitter aftertaste | Grinding Gears

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:21:38 +0000

I’ve been cutting JavaScript for as long as I’ve been coding for the web, so CoffeeScript has me all excited.

Visualized Git best practices for team: branch, merge, rebase

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:52:52 +0000

"Even long-time git users found it hard to explain all the concepts to a beginner clearly especially on rebasing topic."

Blogging with Jekyll Tutorial | Jekyll-Bootstrap

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:23:42 +0000

Jekyll-Bootstrap ships with a complete pre-built Jekyll directory structure for blogging, modular theming, plug-and-play commenting, analytics, new post and page generators, and coded page-stubs to get you rolling.

Bellbot - Play a sound when you have new users

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:28:36 +0000

Put the js on your site. Keep this window open. Hear a loud beep every time you have a new user.

Ninja Blocks: Connect your world with the web. by Ninja Blocks — Kickstarter

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:18:23 +0000

The internet of things for the rest of us.

Gridpak - The Responsive grid generator

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:31:38 +0000

Cool tool.

Day Trip: Edison and Iselin, New Jersey | Brooklyn Based

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:35:12 +0000

The Word's Best Product Video?

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Polished and informative product videos aren’t rare anymore - they’re pretty much expected. But they’re seldom as awesome as this one from Do.com (part of Salesforce).

Here’s why I think this works so well:

In a fun, Wes Anderson way, the video invites you to identify with a smart, precocious kid.
It shows how valuable features are actually used (eg. accept/deny tasks assigned by another person, comment on assets, etc.).
Different “scenes” highlight the interface across devices (mobile, tablet, pc).
Fantastic casting (and Adam Lisagor doesn’t show up).

Have other favorites? I’d love to see them: @ryandeussing

DocumentUp

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:33:09 +0000

Ruby and Rails Tutorials - Jumpstart Lab Curriculum

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:15:20 +0000

Awesome list of tutorials for learning Ruby and Rails.

JumpstartLab - We Build Developers

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:13:17 +0000

Hungry Academy will make it's curriculum public. Nice!

Learn it Yourself

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000

We’re witnessing the beginning of a movement that is changing education. Because all the other options are lame (e.g. Education 3.0), I propose to call it the Learn it Yourself movement. No, that’s not very accurate - this movement isn’t about learning in isolation - but it’s catchy. And it draws attention to the fact that if you want to learn, the direction and pace of education is firmly in your hands.

In the beginning, there was O’Reilly. They started out publishing Unix manuals, and then recognized the immense potential in “sharing the knowledge of innovators” by producing books and conferences that helped people use, understand, and master the technologies at the heart of what became (with O’Reilly’s participation) the Open Source movement. It was totally revolutionary to be able to pick up a few books on Linux, Perl, and Apache and - with a few weeks and a lot of caffeine - be well on your way to building working software.

Today it all seems obvious. Information wants to be free. Open Source languages and tools are most developers’ first choice. Internet Explorer isn’t winning anymore. JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web - and so on. What’s easily overlooked, however, is that the Open Source revolution is rooted not in technology itself, but in learning. It’s the ease of observing how languages function and how programs are made - coupled with the ability to seek and openly share that information with others - that underpins the success of Open Source.

Now an amazing thing is happening, as the “open” in Open Source is rapidly finding its way into education at large. And it will change everything. Here are just a couple early examples of this trend.

Khan Academy
Free like beer. The brainchild of one man. About 2,600 video lessons (and counting). Infinite exercises. Subjects ranging from Algebra to Art History to Banking. And if the scope and quality doesn’t blow your mind, check out the tools Khan Academy is making available to mentors, parents, and teachers so they can keep track of what a student is learning, what they’re having trouble with, and how they’re progressing over time. What’s more, the way Khan Academy rewards positive learning behavior through badges and points focuses on the value of the process as well as the result.

As they continue to add subjects, lessons, exercises, and tools, I’m convinced that Khan Academy will do nothing less than change the way society thinks about education. In my view, their model is built on three principles that other educational initiatives (and institutions) will ignore at their own peril:

(1) open access to expertise
(2) feedback that’s fundamentally about encouraging & rewarding progress, and
(3) the ability to learn what you want, when you want.

A more radical departure from the way subjects were taught in 20th century can hardly be imagined. (As Singularity Hub pronounced almost a year ago, ”Yes, The Khan Academy IS the Future of Education”)

Codecademy
Don’t watch me code - code yourself, with my help. That’s basically the mantra of Codecademy, which is creating “a better, more interactive way to learn programming by actually coding”. Starting with JavaScript, they’re building a platform to enable anyone in the world to learn how to program for free, and they already have over 200,000 users who have completed over 2 million courses. They’re just getting started, but all signs point to them embracing the best elements of the Khan Academy example, even as they develop a process that isn’t fundamentally built around video lessons.

Two elements of Codecademy’s approach are particularly exciting. First, the curriculum will be crowdsourced, allowing experts to create and share lessons the way developers already write and share code online. Second, Codeacademy understands that they’re building a community around learning, and that to empower that community they need to make it easy for its members to connect, communicate, and share with one another. I realize it’s too early for this sort of comparison, but I can’t help but think that if they execute on their vision Codecademy could grow into something like a GitHub for learning programming. Which is very f*%$@&! exciting.

OpenPhoto and the Federated Social Model

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000

I’m pretty excited about the OpenPhoto project. In an era where more and more of the web consists of closed silos built with user-generated content that no longer belongs to the user, OpenPhoto is working toward a model where users retain ownership and control, without sacrificing the social interaction that makes the web awesome.

First, let’s look at the problem. When it comes to storing and sharing your photos, Flickr is still a leader. But man, the bloom is off the rose.

This pop-up still kills me a little every time I use my Flickr account. Because it reminds me that the reason that Flickr is no longer innovating and kicking ass is because it’s basically just a place for Yahoo to show ads. Oh well.

More importantly, Flickr is a silo. Like SmugMug, or 500px, or Facebook is a silo. When your photos are there, they’re no longer really yours (you can’t remove them from one service and/or move them to another without losing tags, comments, etc.). In some cases you can’t even download the originals you uploaded. And none of these silos will be around forever; when they’re gone, poof - there go your photos. If everyone held an original copy of their photos on their own device, that might not be such an issue, but I know from experience that most non-web professionals tend to equate uploading a photo to Flickr or Facebook with saving it for posterity. Doh!

OpenPhoto’s approach is radically different. Instead of uploading your photos to OpenPhoto (the way you would upload them to, say, SmugMug), you upload them to your own storage service using any app built on top of the open-source OpenPhoto API (including the hosted service, OpenPhoto.me). Supported storage services include Amazon S3, DropBox, and RackSpace Cloud - that list will grow as more developers enhance the software to address their own needs - and access priveges are always under your control.

You can move your photos from one service to another, without losing crucial data like comments. And even though your images have moved, any OpenPhoto app accessing your photos will still be able to access them at the same urls.

I think the true power of OpenPhoto will become more apparant as services built on top of it reveal a degree of interoperability and portability that most web users have never experienced. Imagine firing up a new Instagram-style app and instead of it being empty, it’s pre-stocked with your entire photo history for you to build upon.

And personally, I hope this is just the tip of the iceberg. Photos might be the most obvious social object to build a federated network around, but imagine extending ownership, portability and interoperability to social objects like check-ins, tweets, posts, and reviews? I’m excited by the prospect of a future where services like Yelp or Facebook feel signicant pressure from upstarts who a) play well with others and b) put their users in full control of their content.

Sharing the World's Local Knowledge

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000

LocalWiki just released their open-source software and launched their first pilot community. I’m really excited about LocalWiki and think it’s in a position to discover and share a motherlode of useful information in communities around the world.

The project is billed as “The open-content, open-source effort to share the world’s local knowledge.” What’s not to love about that?

Corn on the Cob Security

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000

I can just imagine the developer who built the Banana Republic Visa Card site pitching this added layer of image-based security.

Now the great thing about this extra layer of security is that it’s not second password - it’s an image! Users select an image they like and will remember. A shredded chicken dinner with a biscuit and corn on the cob, for example.

Weniger, Aber Besser

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000

I’m a big fan of simple, clean web sites that just do their job. Pages that don’t overreach with design or function. As the saying goes: weniger, aber besser (less, but better).

Here’s a good example for Evercube, a DIY media storage solution.

I have a big list of these and refer to it all the time for inspiration.

Understanding the Maker Movement

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000

A really interesting, thought-provoking discussion on some of the ideas behind and political implications of the Maker Movement.

I especially appreciate this quote from Anil Dash:

What are we going to make? What are we going to be? Who are we going to be when our country grows up?

And the question Dale Dougherty raises:

How will a “long, slow make” transform our society?

Please Return Me is Brilliant

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000

I wish, I wish I’d put one of these in my Patagonia Super Pluma.

Rejected But Loved

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Kudos to Rumors for keeping a classy showcase of work that was rejected by clients.

Shop at GitHub

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000

GitHub’s e-commerce storefront is a touchstone of good design. That is all.

Gidsy - I'll Pay to do That

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:00:00 +0000

I stumbled upon Gidsy a couple months ago. ~~I don’t much care for the name, but~~ The name is a play on the Dutch word for guide (‘Gids’) and I’m super-interested in what they’re doing, which is building an experience marketplace. Translation: at Amazon you pay to buy stuff; at Gidsy you’ll pay to do stuff.

It won’t be hard for Gidsy to get a toe-hold with tour-guides. In any big city there are dozens (or hundreds) of tour options available to tourists and precious few ways for people to discover them, rate them, make reservations, etc. But tours are just the tip of the iceberg, and sort of boring - I think Gidsy will start to get interesting when people who have nothing to do with tourism begin to share their expertise.

I’ve noticed recently that people are using Meetup this way, more or less under the radar. An expert hiker in the Hudson Valley runs a Meetup that matches hikers with experienced guides and professionally organized expeditions - for a fee. A woman with a woodworking shop runs classes on Meetup that teach various levels of carpentry - also for a fee. There’s clearly a market for people looking to do stuff and learn stuff, and I believe its diversity makes it a mismatch for existing platforms like Meetup (which is structured around persistent groups) or SkillShare (which is all about instruction).

My girlfriend works at an awesome rooftop farm. Every weekend, they get dozens of visitors from all over who want to climb up on the roof, check out the farm, ask the staff questions, and get their hands a little dirty. Right now the farm welcomes this traffic because they enjoy meeting interesting people and sharing their knowledge and experience, but the work-to-reward ratio is imbalanced. Gidsy could turn ‘Open Farm Weekends’ into a revenue stream, creating scarcity and value in the experience of working at an urban farm for a day. (E.g. there’s only room for 12 participants each day, lunch is included, and customers pay for the unique experience and opportunity to learn about urban farming and get introduced to chicken and beekeeping, cheesemaking, special classes, etc.)

I’m also reminded of the uber-popular Open House New York. There’s no reason Gidsy can’t make this type of special access to non-public spaces as routine as Airbnb has made it to sleep at a stranger’s house. That’d be awesome.

Direct Customer Contact

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000

I gave HipChat a spin a few months back, but I never became a paying customer.

So I was surprised to get a personal(1) email from a member of the HipChat team:

This email is awesome in several ways: it’s from Pete’s personal email account, it mentions me and my company by name, it lists a bunch of service upgrades I might be interested in, and it tells me my free trial account has been reset.

We’re currently using another persistent chat service, but you can bet HipChat will be at the top of the list if I ever consider a change.

(1)The email is actually personalized - it’s automated and all the links are tracked. But it’s still pretty rad.

More Disintermediation Please

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000

In some cases, it makes sense for companies to package up other people’s creations and to derive value from the sum. Marketplaces succeed in so far as they help you find things you want without scouring the web yourself. And content aggregators like longform.org collect links to great pieces of journalism for people who are into that sort of thing.

But when you’re dealing with other people’s work, you’ve got to be careful not to be perceived as getting in the way.

Posterous has a feature that allows you to sign up for email updates to any blog on their platform. This should be awesome, like a little button that activates a service like Feed My Inbox (which is awesome, by the way).

But instead of shooting you an email each time a blog is updated, Posterous’s tool packages updates into a single email containing a bunch of links to “Your Daily Posterous subscriptions”.

The thing is, I didn’t subscribe to Daily Posterous anything - I subscribed to email alerts from particular bloggers whose content I care about. Most of these bloggers have nothing in common, so it’s contextually jarring to have their posts bound up together. And, with all due respect to Posterous, I want email alerts from the blogs I read, not from the particular tool they use to publish those blogs.

Suits call what I want disintermediation. It’s a mouthful, but I think it’s at the heart of what makes the internet great.

The Paradox of Choice

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Maria Popova on Renata Salecl’s Choice:

As socioculturally toxic as communism was, before its fall, when we had to queue up for bananas once a year because that’s how rare this “exotic” fruit imported from the West was, people seemed somehow more content, more peaceful, even if that peace was really a trance state. After the initial exhilaration about democracy and capitalism in the early 90s, however, the marketplace exploded and this radical shift from extreme deprivation to extreme abundance made people ultimately more unhappy, unleashing a rapid rise in everything from crime to obesity to corruption — all expressions of the ceaselessly wanting self. Is contentment based on illusion worse than discontentment based on reality? I have no answer.

This totally fascinates me. I can’t wait to read the book.

The Art of the Win-Win

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000

I love the way Squarespace shows you how much you can save by making annual or biennial payments. Perhaps only a small percentage of new users opt for those plans, but when they do it’s 12 or 24 months of money in the bank and a happy customer.

Everyone wins.

Scroll is not a Four Letter Word

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000

A month or so ago Matt Linderman tweeted this:

More clothing sites should go this route: a long page with LOTS of photos. I’d rather scroll than click. http://bit.ly/h8hzNi

Before I even followed the link, I decided to disagree. And because when I did look, I didn’t particularly like the way the page was laid out, I felt vindicated.

But it turns out I was wrong. In fact, when you take into account how people are browsing the web these days, I was probably doubly wrong: scrolling is easier than clicking, and on touch devices scrolling is satisfying in a way that clicking never will be.

Traditionally, e-commerce sites have made you click for everything: to see a collection, to see a product, to see another photo, etc.

But the OUTLIER web site is all about scrolling, and it totally works. Check out this page for their Slim Dungarees

You can just fly down the page, and seeing all the product images is almost cinematic. There’s no searching for links to go forward or back, and no waiting for the page to reload over and over. And you aren’t at a disadvantage if you’re on your phone or a tablet, because you can just swipe your screen. Which, as we all know, is sort of fun.

At long last, even online publishers are starting to realize that readers hate clicking through paginated content. (I suspect their stats show that a lot of people just never get beyond page one of a multi-page article.) So the smart ones are starting to make it easy to view articles as a single page.

Better yet, I think over time we’ll see more publishers make it possible (by navigating through an ad, probably) to get to a clean, one-page, scrollable view, ala Instapaper:

Don't Make Login A Hassle

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Every time I log in to Citibank to check my business checking account activity I’m totally boggled at how difficult they make the process.

Here’s what it’s like from the Citibank homepage:

Starting at the url citibusiness.com used to save one step in this crazy process. But these days it just loads citibank.com, albeit at a much longer url. So instead of getting to a page where I can log in, I get to a page where I need to click a ‘Sign On’ link.

Of course sometimes I’m not paying close attention at this point and I click the ‘Business Banking’ link on the left. Bad move - those are marketing links.

Okay, now I can log in, right? Wrong. If I try to log in here, I get an error. I need to choose CitiBusiness from a drop-down menu, which then takes me to the CitiBusiness site, which (inexplicably) does not exist at citibusiness.com.

So I have to click another ‘Sign On’ link? Apparently, yes.

Ouch! Now the page I’ve been looking for is here, but it comes in the form of a huge ugly pop-up window that tries to fill my screen.

And when I dig up my business code from old paperwork, I can’t just type it in - I have to use my mouse to click on the numbers that fill the form. That’s just crazy. As is requiring me to carry around an electronic dongle that produces a security token without which I can’t access my account.

A few weeks ago I was in the middle of this byzantine process when I decided to open an account at Chase. If you have one, you know how simple their login process is: visit chase.com, enter username & password. Done.

You've got to Walk the Walk

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000

The domain registrar gandi.net has a great tagline: “no bullshit”.

And here’s a snippet from today’s gandi.net newsletter:

.CN Fail / Promotion on .CN.COM until the end of the year. The very closed Chinese Government has maintained its draconian control over its national extension, which it is undergoing an impressive plunge in new registrations. However, if you would like to represent the immense Chinese culture on the web, without a .CN domain, you will be pleased to hear that you can benefit from a promotion of the second-level .CN.COM extension.

They walk the walk, and my respect for their company just went way, way up.

Stand for Something (literally)

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000

Celebrate Brooklyn is a fabulous series of outdoor concerts that takes place each summer in New York City. The lineup is hosted at the domain bricartsmedia.org and apprently the whole shebang is put on by a group called BRIC. (FYI, I’ll definitely be at the Dr. John show.)

So what’s ‘BRIC’, you may ask? Well, hard to say. Believe it or not, their web site doesn’t tell you what their name (which is clearly an acronym) stands for. For real.

Not on the ‘About BRIC’ page. Not on the ‘Press Inquiries’ page. Not even on the ‘Support BRIC’ page, where they ask you to send them money.

Of course, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that BRIC is a non-profit that has a hand in the visual arts, performing arts, and public access TV. But I guess they stand for X isn’t an impression any organization wants to make with an audience of potential customers or supporters.

UPDATE According to the Google, BRIC stands for ‘Brooklyn Information & Culture’. That’s their name, and it should appear everywhere the acronym is used, full stop. If they don’t much like their name (which I sort of suspect is the issue here), they should go ahead and change it to ‘Arts Media Brooklyn’ and build a strong brand around all the awesome stuff they do.

Visualizing Collaborative Trends

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000

This chart from Collaborative Fund visualizing collaborative trends gets my heart racing. I wish it were a little easier to read, but still.