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“Better know a developer” at AAJA 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 08:46 am
I had the privilege of being on a panel with the New York Times’s Chase Davis and former YouTube designer Hong Qu at this year’s Asian American Journalists Association convention The panel was titled...
Innovations in India’s Health Care 29 Jul 2013 | 05:50 pm
After reading this Bloomberg article, Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S., I couldn’t resist thinking about the end of Atul Gawande’s book, “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performan...
Waiting in line for the MoMA’s Rain Room: Some datapoints and pointers 8 Jul 2013 | 01:44 am
Update (7/24/2013) – Confirmed: you will likely never get to see the Rain Room in New York if you haven’t seen it yet. See the table below to see the latest wait times. Summary I saw the rain room Mo...
2,000,000 pageviews on Flickr…I think? 1 Jul 2013 | 07:56 am
After about three and a half years since I registered for Flickr Pro, I’ve hit the 2,000,000 photo-views milestone. I had expected to hit that mark tomorrow, because of two trending photos I submitte...
Engineering and A-holes 23 Jun 2013 | 10:22 pm
I’ve been a huge fan of pop science author Mary Roach’s work ever since “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers“, her entertaining book on how we use and dispose of corpses. Her latest book, Gulp:...
Flickr’s redesign makes it a photo service actually worth sharing 21 May 2013 | 03:44 am
I’ve been a paying Flickr member since late 2009, but this year was going to be my last. I believed this even after I forgot to change my billing settings and Flickr auto-renewed me into 2015, because...
Writing advice: Keep the bear, and just the bear 14 May 2013 | 05:35 pm
John McPhee has been writing for about 50 years now, which, even if you ignore his four Pulitzer finalist awards (and one win), is a good deal of writing experience. But getting past writer’s block ha...
The Great Gatsby in 3D at the MoMA 10 May 2013 | 04:29 am
Last night I went to the MoMA’s screening of Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” . Following the story’s theme of spectacle, it was appropriate that way too many people showed up (it was Film members on...
SummerStage 2013 App: SummerStageLove, formerly SummerStageHand.com 29 Apr 2013 | 06:09 am
Edit: Just kidding, I decided to go for a less lamey sounding name: say hello to SummerStageLove.com. The HackSummerStage entries are here. There were only five but I’m proud to be the only web app (t...
Republia Times: possibly the best game about newspapering ever made 22 Apr 2013 | 06:20 am
Update: I guess I’m not being completely hyperbolic; Mr. Pope’s “Republia Times” is nominated for “Most Significant Impact” and “Best Gameplay” awards at this year’s Games for Change Festival…not bad ...
