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  • 64 Ways To Think About a News Homepage

    64 Ways To Think About a News Homepage by Melody Joy Kramer (@mkramer) (tinyletter) with contributions from my better half A — who prefers to remain offline, Max Temkin, Chad Kouri, Margot Harrington, Melissa Harris, Beth Corzo-Duchardt, Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, Veronica Berns, Chris… more ›

  • The Company ASBL : Blog

    The Company ASBL : Blog Mastering M.I.G. 27’s “Neverlands”. Coming soon on #thecompanysound // #Lisbon // http://ift.tt/1xZ3Ozc from http://ift.tt/16GJagI more ›

  • Fitas of the Fittest, legendary dub collective…

    Fitas of the Fittest, legendary dub collective based in Lisbon, perform a live set full of original riddims and remixed classics. Special guests: RSoldiers Broadcast on stress.fm Recorded at The Company Sound January 2015 http://ift.tt/1xZgUwl more ›

  • #thecompanysound vinyl archives…

    #thecompanysound vinyl archives http://ift.tt/192xqXH more ›

  • Mastering M.I.G. 27’s “Neverlands”. Coming soon on…

    Mastering M.I.G. 27’s “Neverlands”. Coming soon on #thecompanysound // #Lisbon // http://ift.tt/1xZ3Ozc more ›

  • The Next Internet Is TV

    The Next Internet Is TV I was talking to someone who works on one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept that distracted us for… more ›

  • We see the internet of things wherever a physical…

    “We see the internet of things wherever a physical thing is connected by some kind of data carrying link to a computer capable of running software.” – Comment on Internet of Things terminology (27 Jan., 2015, at Interconnected) more ›

  • What is the consensus cosmogony of the Internet of…

    “What is the consensus cosmogony of the Internet of Things? What is its future? What does the consensus understand are the first steps?” – Consensus cosmogony ( 2 Feb., 2015, at Interconnected) more ›

  • A product is useless without a platform, or more…

    “A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.” – Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about six and a half years,… more ›

  • When software — or idea-ware for that matter —…

    “When software — or idea-ware for that matter — fails to be accessible to anyone for any reason, it is the fault of the software or of the messaging of the idea. It is an Accessibility failure.” – Stevey’s Google… more ›