Excerpted from an interview with Shawn Blanc on Bridging the Nerd Gap. Pretty cool anecdotes throughout.
I hate to just waste away an hour especially as a daily habit just vegging out for no reason. Writing is entertainment for me, although sometimes it takes on the shape of grueling and frustrating entertainment. So if I can’t get myself to focus on writing then I am likely to read or just go to bed.
Matt has decided to release two of his previous themes in the WordPress themes directory. Pretty cool to see themes like these get released for free (and under the GPL of course).
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Automattic Happiness Team meetup in Estoril, Portugal. Also a day-trip to Lisbon and Cabo da Roca.
Combining fast food with social gaming is fascinating, particularly giving restaurant credit as a measure of successful burger ideas. The Bits Blog explains 4Food:
Here’s how it works: I create a burger, call it “The Bits Burger” and broadcast it to Twitter or Facebook. Each time someone orders my special creation, I get 25 cents credit in the restaurant and my burger rises up the leaderboard. The more customers order my burger, the higher it goes and the more credits I get, until I’m eating free.
Difficult to pull just one quote from the recent Mark Pesce article but this is my favorite:
we need to think of every educator in Australia as a contributor of value. More than that, we need to think of every student in Australia as a contributor of value. That’s the vital gap that must be crossed.
The article is one of the clearer statements of what we can do in education by incrementally changing ourselves.
