As a type geek, I find this Michigan court battle inspiring. As a citizen, it’s uglier than Comic Sans: At issue is whether a summary of the question, used on a petition to gather signatures to get the question on the ballot, was written in a type size specified by […]
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If you’re an early adopter, you likely sign up for a wide range of new products and services. A number of these startups inevitably fold, and then you receive their closing-shop emails. The correspondence making up this genre tends to be fairly upbeat and concise, painting over what are surely […]
Sina Weibo is one of the major micro-blogging services in China. According to a recent news report, Weibo has over 300 million users, and 100 million posts are generated everyday. In contrast with its counterpart in the West, a large number of studies on Twitter has been done, but the […]
Live notes from the “Collaboration, not Calcification” session at the Awesome Summit, by Ellen Chisa, Nikki Lee, and Rahul Bhargava. Last session! Thanks guys for sticking around. We’re going to talk about collaboration, and do-away with the slides. Panelists Facilitated by Jeff Radershan (@jraders) Comes from DC, runs a site called […]
Live notes from the “Age of Peak Guilt” session at the Awesome Summit, by Rahul Bhargava, Matt Stempeck, Ellen Chisa, and Willow Brugh. Alexis Ohanian introduces the panel by explaining the problem. Currently, to do well we ask for money by showing a sad kid. This poverty porn just causes us […]