Finally, a designer articulates what I've always suspected: carousels on homepages are garbage http://t.co/jf9Gioit

Jennifer Pahlka: RT @arouault: Urban tech in WSJ: why web developers want to be in cities http://t.co/30kbLPiL

Nieman Lab: RT @TechCrunch: Animated Gifs As Ads? Tumblr Experiments With New Advertising Format http://t.co/mWlaiN7z by @sarahintampa

Evan Sung for The New York Times THIS morning, I grabbed a bowl from the cabinet, went outside and picked my breakfast of fresh figs . No, I’m not vacationing near the Mediterranean coast. Nor am I in California or the South. I’m at home in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, where the fig tree in my tiny…

Deeply moving @NewYorker piece about history of rape and the children born to victims: http://t.co/kF4eW5rz

Illustration by Tom Gauld A few days after Whitney Houston died, a friend sent me a link to a story by Cat Marnell . “What do you think of this writer?” she asked. I’d heard of Marnell, the bad-girl beauty director at xoJane , a Web site for women run by Jane Pratt, the founding editor of Sassy and…

Read this and feel happy and then angry, very angry at the worst for which corporate culture optimizes: http://t.co/iyCSuv0h @whitneyhess

WASHINGTON — You should know going in that this is a story about BuzzFeed that BuzzFeed would never run. This story is longer than the last 10 articles out of the new BuzzFeed Washington, D.C. bureau combined . Some recent examples: An airline ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Barack Obama and…

And yes, I really am going to keep tweeting links to this article, because it is that important. http://t.co/OUfbHAV8

Keeping the goal in sight while designing component flows by Ryan Singer (@rjs) This article was originally published to Feltpresence.com in August 2012. The other day I wanted to sign in to a video site to watch a lecture by Clayton Christensen. The bumpy experience I had provided a good lesson in…

[Editor's Note: I am not editing this. Because I do not know what it is. But you should read it. —Joe ] Almost everything is bad. Usually, really bad, and not even bad in an interesting way. Tech is no exception—if anything, tech might be the worst of the bad. The Internet? Gross. The people who use…

Mike D. Stellar Feed: RT @lisaphillips: What we talk about when we talk about tech jobs. http://t.co/R4IB04Au

Periodically popular articles arise decrying brainstorming as flawed (Jonah Lehrer’s article in the New Yorker, Groupthink: the brainstorming myth , is a popular one). Most of these articles miscast what brainstorming was designed to do, and how ideas in workplaces are actually developed. Although…

Saved to read. RT @yelvington: "Saving journalism must also save an audience that doesn’t give a damn" http://t.co/uf59QqwP

<3 u @BoingBoing. Massive comment thread feat. debates abt modernism vs. modernity, & merits of educational pedagogies http://t.co/anxZcHEp

undefined If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public , its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world. It would far outstrip any regime past or present in how intimately it records the lives of its citizens. Private…

Facebook not only is on course to go bust but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it. Given its vast cash reserves and the glacial pace of business reckonings, this assertion will sound exaggerated. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. At the heart of the Internet business is one of the…

"In Celebration of Enthusiasm": @emmastraub's response to @silvermanjacob's piece about excessive niceness. http://t.co/Zir0phbb

GuardianUS: Twitter confronts ethics of commercial pressures in wake of Guy Adams 'mess' http://t.co/q1ayXLtl

Abraham had a common question the other day, here it is: I recently came across this post on the website skeptoid.com. This guy named Brian Dunning says that gluten-free diets aren’t the gato’s meow (on this podcast: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4239 ). He says that there is no sound evidence for…

Christopher Mims: How modern agriculture led to an epidemic of wheat/gluten sensitivity. (1.4 million Americans remain undiagnosed.) http://t.co/5HRZwIVL

A Discussion About CSS Reusability http://t.co/cG02xJ49

It’s easy to spot a beautiful portfolio. Designers know that looks sell, and many people sell themselves that way. Of course, the ability to make something that looks good matters, especially for visual designers. But the challenge is that great images say nothing about what it will be like to work…

Whenever a reboot or remake of a movie comes out, people complain that it's "not original." When creators turn a book or comic into a TV show, critics sneer at Hollywood for having "no new ideas." But they're wrong. What remake-mania demonstrates is that pop culture behaves the way folklore has for…

A few weeks ago, the online curator Maria Popova, known on the web as Brainpicker , unveiled a set of guidelines for attribution on the internet called the Curators’ Code. The idea was to ensure that online influence itself is traced and attributed: “discovery honored,” as Popova puts it. The…

A well-dressed crowd, including many senior members of the MoMA staff, turned up to contemplate the state of contemporary curation at Friday’s 56th Street Round Table at Má Pêche, hosted by the New York Public Library and Momofuku. The panelists— Jeremy Geffen , the director of artistic planning at…

Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997 , he decided that a shipping company wasn’t delivering spare parts fast enough. The shipper said it couldn’t do better, and it didn’t have to: Apple had signed a contract granting it the business at the current pace. As Walter Isaacson describes…

July 19, 2012 Fred Wilson is wrong about “Free” Fred Wilson is one the smartest, most genuine people in the tech business. He has a huge fan club that he has earned by being radically transparent and consistently engaging in public debate. I have emailed with him a few times over the years, and…