seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 24 2008 | web, internet, web 2.0, society, culture, email, design
A really easy website for sharing files, notes, anything. No signup required, you just send your post as email to post@posterous.com (with attachments if you like), and they take care of the rest. Simple, beautiful - a model design.
Disclaimer: I know Garry, one of the founders, from college.
Quoted: posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us.
- seregine | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 28 2008 | people, media, culture, internet, society
An interesting perspective on recent history: industrialization created free time (unused mental capacity or "cognitive surplus"), TV filled it at first but now we are finding more constructive ways to apply it.
Quoted: I started telling [a TV producer] about the Wikipedia article on Pluto...She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."
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