"My process of interviewing people is I do not interview people," said the cheerful Hustwit. "I'm trying to get them to forget that they're being interviewed." Also, signs of increased interactivity: "Are you a robot?" [via glass]
"We looked at the most compelling social sites across the web, from Twitter to Tumblr, Pownce to FriendFeed, and more. And then we built an application around open standards to offer you the best features of each of these services, on your own site."
I went to a cyclocross race for the first time in Portland this weekend to take some pictures. Unfortunately I left my camera batteries at home so I had to get by with my sound recorder and a little video camera I had with me. The main thing I wanted to capture was the sound of the race. The cyclists don't make much noise, but the crowd comes armed with cowbells or even pots and pans to rally the cyclists as they go past. The noise ebbed and flowed as the riders were on different parts of the course. Here's a sample:
The cowbells give the cheering a distinct sound. If you're curious about what it looked like, here are some of the video clips I shot:
"'There is no saving the Internet,' he said. 'There is postponing the inevitable for a little longer.'" Amazing story of the DNS flaw discovered by Dan Kaminsky a few months ago.
"Stifling bullying online won't make bullying go away; it'll just send it back underground. The visibility gives us an advantage. If we see it, we can work with it to stop it."
Google hosts several popular JavaScript libraries on their insane worldwide content distribution network. If you have faith in their uptime it could be a good way to speed up your site a bit.
"Indeed, these days posting words, photos, and videos online is sort of like getting tattoos. Think ahead, because they're going to be around forever whether you want them or not."
"It would have been a lot cheaper if we had a policy where the CEO of any sufficiently large investment bank was paid $100 million per year direct from the U.S. Treasury. In return for this guaranteed payout, he or she would forgo any numbers-based compensation..."
"While daylight time reduces demand for household lighting, it increases demand for heating in the early spring and late fall (in the mornings) and, even more important, for cooling on summer evenings. Benjamin Franklin was right about candles, in other words, but he did not consider air-conditioners."