Wednesday, 19 October 2011

I made this.

"creating something personal, even of moderate quality, has a different kind of appeal than consuming something made by others, even of high quality"

Clay Shirky (in Cognitive Surplus?)

Monday, 10 October 2011

Silicon versus Carbon

Things change because of people interacting with other people, rather than technology or design really doing things to people.”

Mark Earls

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Get it out there / Always in Beta

So many @instagram features we only thought of after seeing real usage. A day of your app in the wild is worth a month of guessing.

Mike Krieger, Instagram on Twitter

Friday, 2 July 2010

Frantic is good

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough

Mario Andretti

Thursday, 1 April 2010

Culture > Technology

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Clay Shirky

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Effectiveness vs Efficiency

“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”