What VegNews should do now that they’ve been called out on using REAL meat stock photos. Or, why avoiding transparency always catches up to you in the end. Seriously, Photoshopping meat products to look vegan?! Sounds like an Onion article.
Month: April 2011
A good factory
A good factory is not necessarily the one that makes the most money, but the one that is most responsible for improving the quality of life for its workers and its customers. And the true function of politics is not to make people more affluent, safe, or powerful, but to let as many as possible enjoy an increasingly complex existence.
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Status
I thought my 5K run was fun but Karim did a 5K dance. What a brilliant idea and an epic video!
What it’s like to share an article from one of these iPad magazines. Neven Mrgan nails it on why sharing content from iPad magazine apps is a big bucket of fail. It’s almost like they don’t want you to tell your friends about great content. (via Ben Brooks)
Automattic’s WordPress 5K
Just got back from a 5K run for Automattic’s World Wide WordPress 5K. The weather wasn’t as nice as yesterday, the last mile was in sprinkling rain, but it was still a good workout.
Like Nick mentions, it’d be cool to set up a counter next year to see how much distance people log around the world. That combined with a map of where people are running, walking, biking, or swimming their 5K would be a cool visualization of the WordPress community in action.
Japanese Tea Garden
Some very good friends gave Leah and I a year-long membership to the Japanese Garden in Portland. The weather was nice for a change so we went to check it out. I want to go back with a book and just chill for a few hours; it’s quite the relaxing place.
Construction of space in computer labs
I was reading this article about online courses on the MindShift blog today. It starts off with this image.
What a horribly depressing vision of a computer lab. While it is how the lab in my high school and those at Whitman were set up it nevertheless seems like such an utter failure at creating a place where students can collaborate around digital content.
In addition to the great firewall problem of web access in schools perhaps a large reason why online courses and digital initiatives fail is because they are forced into spaces like this.
This is what makes me most excited about the role iPads could play in schools. The opposite of a desktop machine, an iPad would allow students to engage with content without having to sit in straight rows with nothing in front of them but a monitor.
If a school could create socially designed spaces for their computers they might be surprised by the type of learning that happens.
On the news. There are too many great points in here to quote just one. It’s a beautiful essay by Mandy Brown about what news means to her and what she is willing to pay for.
Adding a phone number to LessAccounting increased our paid user base. The benefits and goals of successful phone support. If it’s done well it can be incredibly helpful to curious users.
Chocolate cake!
The benefits of having a good friend who works at Sur La Table. 2 pounds of ganache, a chocolate cake, with frozen raspberries from this summer equals a delicious treat. Thank you Cam!