. . . these are exciting times for “executable biology,” an emerging field dedicated to creating models of organisms that run on a computer.Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic
Systrom says he treated the controversy as a learning experience, telling his team to consider Instagram a small country and to imagine how people would feel if someone had suddenly changed all the road signs to a different color.Kara Swisher’s Instagram piece in Vanity Fair
Modular Ecosystem of Computing Hardware
Tech stocks are fandoms
Users have no taste
Users won’t pay for websites.
Why Video Games with Silent Heroes Had the Best Soundtracks
An excuse to collect some of my favourite music from video games. I just found them in an old text file from a couple years ago, 1 and realised, with great happiness, I can post them on This Is My Jam, which I love (because they do amaaaaazing stuff like the Jam Odyssey, which made me cry a little bit).
What revolution looks like
An image which incited a nation to revolution. And some images of an actual revolution, given to me by a friend.
Priming and tagging
Steven Berlin Johnson ⇒ describes how he’s coming up with ideas for his latest book and says some interesting things.
Mobile usage is additive?
A key point here is that the bulk of this traffic is additive – the FT is seeing high levels of traffic to its website during times when there was previously very little, simply because people now have a way of accessing it.
“We are not seeing a substitutional effect,” FT head of data Tom Betts tells TheMediaBriefing. “People reading across multiple devices increases their consumption, they read for more and longer.”The Media Briefing, How mobile has changed daily news consumption and why you need to understand it
The four skills you need to recycle and reinvent content
Smaller screens? Summarise the content
More about Summly and that Yahoo! acquisition (and the reasons behind it).
The amount of help analysts gave each other
This is from the McKinsey Quarterly – Givers Take All: