Pulitzer Adds Web-Only Category.
Ladies and Gentlement, start your engines. (via)

42) The gradual erosion of your moral boundaries
Via urlesque:switchedblog:sarahspy.

me: FTW
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Here’s Google’s video on Inviting someone to chat in Gmail.
Useful!
“Especially interesting is the post titled “Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message.” OKCupid analyzed the terms and phrases in 500,000 “first contact” messages. They found, for instance, that “the worst 6 words you can use in a first message are all stupid slang,” such as ur, r, u, ya, cant, and hit. Using ur will drop the response rate from 32 percent to 6 percent! Another mistake is complimenting someone on their looks. If you say someone is “sexy” you’ll almost halve your chances of hearing back from them. On the other hand, a greeting of “How’s it going?” will boost the response rate to 53%. People also respond well to messages that make it clear you actually read the person’s profile and have something to say about it (using “you mention” in a message increases the response rate to 49%).”
Shouldn’t this be common sense? I use the “you mention” trick all the time in real life. It works even with stuff the other one didn’t actually mention.
Via Boingboing.
Interesting idea and clever application of it by Simen. Read the whole article — maybe after that you want to fine-tune your Tumblr as well.
A while ago, Cursive Buildings wrote:
Creating a good blog is like writing a good book that no one reads past the first page. creating a good blog is like hiding your treasure under piles of new treasure. creating a bad blog is like burying your trash under piles of new trash.Today, this article has been making the rounds, and it advises us:
It’s time we create meaningful indexes and put our best — not latest — content up front, instead of just doing what’s easiest.They’re kind of right[…]. I whipped up a small experiment in (partially) rectifying this on my blog.
Lo que tu nickname dice de tí.
(via yummieyummie)
Recopilados en orden cronológico. Para darle emoción a la cosa, omitiré el nombre del tuiteador, así los podréis leer sin prejuicios. Los campeones sabéis quienes sois.
Os advierto que es mejor dosificarlo. No sólo para que dure, sino porque la asimilación de tal cantidad de sabiduría, aunque codificada bajo el algoritmo de cotidianeidad espontánea propio de Twitter, podría sobrecargar las sinapsis del lector.
Por cierto: después de esto, a quien diga que Twitter no es un avance (hacia dónde exactamente, ni puta idea) lo destierro al Tártaro.
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Dude, I just love these guys from The Onio… wait, it’s REAL.
“A censored search engine called Koogle enables devout Jews to search the Internet without fear of running into objectionable material, such as photos of women or bacon. It also blocks users from buying anything online on the Jewish Sabbath. The site has Hebrew and English versions.”
Bonus detail: look carefully what’s on top of Koogle’s logo. Insane!
Revolutionary Iranian women, risking their life to post about the protests on Twitter, meet Google contextual ads (Link)
It’s 2009. Anyone who still beleives in originality and copyright is going the same way as the music industry was before itunes ligitimised (or capatalised on) piracy. If you insist on putting your medeocre photography on the internet at least set it free!this is dumbest shit i’ve ever read.