March 2010
A Conversation With Mark Coatney, the Man Behind Newsweek's Tumblr - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY →
mediabistro.com
“My thinking with Tumblr is this is a good way to do something that’s a lot more conversational. I guess my analogy that I say to be clear when I’m trying to explain it is: I think of the Web as this big cocktail party, and increasingly the way people get their information on the Web isn’t just searching out on Google, but also having someone that they know and trust refer information to them.”
Milton Glaser: 10 Things I Have Learned →
artprintissues.com
really great article.
for designers and everyone else.
my fav…
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SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.
This is a subtext of number one. There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the ‘whole’ before you can understand the details. What you have to look at is the entire culture, the entire family and community and so on. Perls proposed that in all relationships people could be either toxic or nourishing towards one another. It is not necessarily true that the same person will be toxic or nourishing in every relationship, but the combination of any two people in a relationship produces toxic or nourishing consequences. And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life.
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“Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
—the 2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.
