Jordan Tumbles:

[parislemon]

So the longer a technology lives, the longer it can be expected to live.

Nassim N. Taleb in an interesting opinion piece for Wired entitled, The Surprising Truth: Technology Is Aging in Reverse. (via parislemon)

[nevver]

Commentary

[parislemon]

Yep.

[shavingryansprivates-deactivate]

its free real estate

[jordankeats]

It's a free house for you, Jim!

[jordankeats]

Non-Technical Hacks for WordPress: Victoria WordCamp 2013 Presentation #wcv13

  Who’s this guy? 

            How to turn your WordPress blog into an auto-posting Posterous-like Content Marketing Machine

        “The art that you do when you interact with a customer, or when you create a new use of a traditional system or technology — it’s still art.” — Seth Godin, Linchpin (p. 92)

          IFTTT:  If This Than That 

    Trigger to WordPress Actions:

  Recipe: If * in Google Reader than Post Draft to WordPress

  Recipe: If Youtube Favorite than WP draft

        WordPress Trigger To Action:

  Recipe: If WP post than Twitter

  Recipe: If WP post than Facebook

  Recipe: If WP post than Facebook Page

  Recipe: If WP post than Linkedin

  Recipe: If WP post than Tumblr

  Recipe: If WP post than Blogger: 

Alt. Recipe: If WP post than Google+: Doesn’t work unless you have a US phone number. If so follow these rather crafty steps: Here  

      Thanks!

              Posted via email from My Brain is Open.

from http://bit.ly/V3aNY9

[jordankeats]

Twitter-owned Posterous finally lets users export their data – will it now close down in 2013?

When Posterous was bought by Twitter in March, the team behind the blogging platform said it would introduce a system to allow users to export their data from the service “in the coming weeks”. Eight months later, the service finally launched a back-up tool, as announced on its blog.

Initially conceived for those users who feared that Twitter’s ownership would change the platform or see it closed down, the backup feature lets users request an email which contains a zip file of all of their posts in HTML format. This significantly helps the process of moving to another host — such as WordPress or Tumblr — although it isn’t a direct porting system which would be easiest.

Twitter’s deal to buy Posterous was an acquihire. The company explained it is “always looking for talented people who have the passion and personality to join Twitter”, with no mention of the product and its place within Twitter’s service. We initially advised Posterous users to consider other products since it looked likely that it would close, although neither company explicitly confirmed that.

Since being bought, we’ve seen signs that things aren’t as usual. Posterous has undergone numerous disruptions and outages, some of which seen users given intermittent or no access over long periods. In July, the service went down for 12 hours after losing multiple databases. In October, the site’s SSL certificate expired, only to be hurriedly replaced with an apology.

Furthermore, its once thriving blog has stopped regular postings and its Twitter account only tweets about its (regular) service issues.

Posterous founder Sachin Agarwal has become a product manager at Twitter and it’s hard to believe that these issues which have affected users — TNW’s inboxes have seen a lot of email from troubled and confused Posterous bloggers — would have occurred were the service run by a full-time, dedicated team.

We have a feeling that the timing of the introduction of the feature was down to a schedule — i.e. provide a backup before the end of 2012. It remains to be seen if that plan also includes the closure of Posterous in 2013 but, with users now able to move their data away, we wouldn’t be surprised to see the service sunsetted in the new year.

TNW has contacted Posterous and Twitter for comment on the service’s future in 2013.

Headline image via F.Schmidt / Shutterstock

Hat tip @aulia

via The Next Web http://tnw.co/UpErqc

from http://bit.ly/VRmake

[nofaiado]

[xntrek]

Nathan Davis - The Black Knight Rises

Nathan keeps making T-shirts that I end up buying …

[tireds-blog]

[mediajorge]

Stars - Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It

Tickets for the U.S. Fall Tour are on sale now at http://youarestars.com/shows . Each ticket purchased includes a digital copy of the new album, delivered on September 4! Stars’ new album, The North, is out September 4, 2012. Download “The Theory of Relativity” at http://youarestars.com 9/20 - Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall ^ 9/21 - Boston, MA - Paradise ^  9/22 - New York, NY - Webster Hall ^  9/23 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club ^ 9/25 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater ^ 9/26 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle ^ 9/27 - Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre ^ 9/28 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse ^ 9/29 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge ^ 10/2 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall ^ 10/3 - Cincinnati, OH - 20th Century Theatre ^ 10/4 - Indianapolis, IN - Deluxe @ Old National Centre ^ 10/5 - St. Louis, MO - Plush ^ 10/6 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note ^ 10/9 - Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck ^ 10/10 - Tulsa, OK - Cain’s Ballroom ^ 10/11 - Little Rock, AR - Revolution Music Room ^ 10/12 - Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s Upstairs ^ 10/13 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre ^ 10/14 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits * 10/17 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues ^ 10/18 - Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theater ^ 10/19 - Santa Cruz, CA - Rio Theatre ^ 10/20 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore ^ 11/7 - Portland, OR - The Aladdin Theatre 11/8 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox 11/9 - Victoria, BC - Save on Centre # * 11/10 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena # * 11/12 - Kelowna, BC - Prospera Place # * 11/14 - Calgary, AB - Stampede Corral # * 11/15 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place # * 11/17 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre # * 11/19 - London, ON - John Labatt Centre # * 11/23 - Kingston, ON - K-Rock Centre # * 11/24 - Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre # *     * - ticket does not include album download ^ - Diamond Rings and California Wives opening # - with Metric

[jordankeats]

11/9 - Victoria, BC - Save on Centre With Metric.

[soxiam]

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

George Orwell (via soxiam)

[photojojo]

The Iris Camera is controlled by your eye, and shoots exactly what you see!

It uses biometric technology (think face recognition) to detect where your eye is looking through the lens and capture a frame based off of that. It was designed by Mimi Zou.

Watch the vid to see it in action.

The Iris Camera Shoots Exactly What  You See 

via NotCot

[smithsonianmag]

Stunning Star Trail Photographs from International Space Station

NASA astronaut Don Pettit recently uploaded a gallery of photos to the Johnson Space Center’s Flickr page. Pettit on how he captured these amazing images:

“My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, the ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.”

Ed note: Here are the Hubble Space Telescope’s finest photos.

h/t Twisted Sifter

[jordankeats]

All bleeding coming together, isn't it?

Dondylion - Noel Feilding's Luxury Comedy (by modernfilth)

[stoweboyd]

There was a recent hoo-ha at a scientific conference in France, when Bernardo Huberman was furious when researchers from Google and a contributing university presenting results of social data analysis declined to share the data.

John Markoff, Big Data Troves Stay Forbidden to Social…

[futuramb]

This is really an extremely important issue for the future!!

[thecreatorsproject]

GIF-itti.

[syzlak-blog]

[cirquedurartastic]

BUMMMMMM BUMMMMMM BAAAAMMMMMM

[redcloud]

Best iPhone dock EVER.

Siri, remind me to buy more Lego monkeys.

[aimee-b-loved]

BRUCE! YOU NEED THIS! IT’S ART!

[viceuk]

Question Of The Day - What Is The Internet?

It’s “Internet Week” in New York, which is a chance for internet people to talk to other internet people in real life about internet stuff and maybe get drunk and have sex with each other, which is something you can’t do on the internet. Our US office has a bunch of stuff going on during Internet Week and it’s all very exciting, but we just used the word “internet” six times in two sentences and we have NO IDEA what the internet actually is. Does anyone?

We asked some people to see if they knew.

[suicideblonde]