Search Engine Optimization poetry will snag unsuspecting Googlers this weekend: blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2…
@shawnmicallef @navalang @jm_mcgrath People will pay for what they value; the chaff isn't relevant to the price: slate.com/blogs/moneybox…
@navalang @jm_mcgrath Compare to HBO; most of the week is reruns and crappy movies. People pay (handsomely) for the 5% original content.
This "Friday" Android app promo is a trainwreck of Web 2.0 bullshit, Oprahfied self-actualization, and weird sexism?: youtu.be/NWREmW9ymoc
I'm not a big fan of Disney in general, but this (Oscar-nominated) hybrid hand-drawn/CGI animated short is so great: youtu.be/aTLySbGoMX0
@brandcowboy Did the Millennials seem less optimistic at an equivalent age?
@maxfawcett Yes! I think scissors would be more effective, but the principle is sound.
@maxfawcett They're only back if we let them back. They can't cross the threshold without an invitation. Like vampires.
@CosmicRaymond And thanks to this article in the latest Wired, I actually know what cavitation is: wired.com/autopia/2013/0…
You can stop telling me that cracking my knuckles will give me arthritis, because that is junk science, friend: bbc.com/future/story/2…
My kingdom for a lint roller.
@karenkho Mr. @Fieldish gets the credit for the display.
Risking my reputation as a Serious Person, I made a guide to 2013's blockbuster YA books for @CdnBusinessMag: canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-…
@kattancock V. few of the Ryerson magazine classes went ahead this term. Unfortunate!
@kattancock I do! Galaxy s3. Quite happy with the switch.
@quinparker Touché. Though the scrollbar also encompasses comments, site chrome, etc, so, I guess I see a marginal distinction.
@kattancock Cancelled! Lack of enrollment. I have Feelings about this.
@kattancock Yep. I've drunk deep of the Google Kool-Aid.
@dtopping I kind of hate it, actually, but still. Apparently it syncs scroll location with other devices, though. That's useful.
@kattancock I mean, it's not super-accurate yet, but sometimes eerie. Like, search on desktop, then phone notification offers directions.
@kattancock It frequently offers travel times from my current location to an address I've recently searched for.
@kattancock "Google Now" in the latest Android release uses gMaps traffic data to estimate commute duration around quittin' time.
Another design thing at the New New Republic: a little red meter showing how far you've read: 
It's provided by a service called Spoken Layer: spokenlayer.com/the-new-republ…
Interesting side note on the New Republic relaunch today is audio versions of every article (click the headphones): newrepublic.com/article/112210…
(Rest assured, having clicked, I think online shopping in Canada is safe in its suckitude.)
There's some awful lesson to learn about online advertising based on the fact that I did, in fact, click on this: 
Minimalist magazine apps — a thousand times yes: pbs.org/mediashift/201…
(Also, someone please introduce the two owners who named their pugs "Chewbacca." The world's worst rom-com meet-cute?)
In New York, dogs are named Lucy or Lola up to 110th street, then it's all "Princess": project.wnyc.org/dogs-of-nyc/
The comments on Gawker's post naturally devolved into arguing "degree to which Toronto is(n't) equivalent to New York": gawker.com/5978975/the-be…
His facial expression is "I wonder how this ultra-generic stock photo I'm posing for will be used?" 
@kelkord Yeah — the Court ruled the law was unconstitutional but upheld it anyway? I don't know what the deal is there.
Fun fact from that story: QC has 1.2m people in common law parternships, "the largest concentration of unmarried couples in the world."
In other bizarre court rulings hinging on razor-thin technicalities: no spousal support for QC common law couples: theglobeandmail.com/news/national/…
Er, Intel named its smartphone for Africa the "Yolo™": newsroom.intel.com/community/inte…
@anne_theriault Critical mass achieved!
I think @trekandthecity is going to be popular, in the way these things are.
I do love a full-on @xintra harangue, such as this one about eternal war, bromance, and "Magic Mike": theaesthete.com/story/view.dT/…
@kattancock "Business class vibrant Porter Sunspel first-class, soft power St Moritz Baggu exclusive global destination handsome."
Every once in a while I like checking in on the shuttered Gawker blog they now use to test site features: Sploid.com
@theturner ...In later years, historians referred to the meal—and its riotous aftermath in the streets of Paris—as "the shock of the stew."
"This pizza is an essay on the theme of fennel." Please never change, New York Times: nytimes.com/2013/01/23/din…
c) Any project will benefit from an email subscription system with an unsubscribe function. Good will is a real thing.
a) No, this is not you. b) Is this possible/does this already exist?
I want a Gmail filter to skip emails from someone who BCCs their whole address book—BUT want to see their replies to threads others start.
RT @TabathaSouthey: Writers talking about writing, like artists talking about art can't be trusted. If they are what they say they are t ...
@phillipadsmith @theCole Starred! Never run a Node app before — no better way/time to learn, I suppose...
The NY Daily News' account of the 1969 Stonewall raid is an epic chunk of tabloid greatness: yak.net/ian/stonewall.…
@phillipadsmith I like that solution too; I just like the idea of a simple count across all networks, even for non-share-button purposes.
Interesting: SharedCount.com, an open API that provides share counts across multiple social graphs with one JSON call. Nifty.
@phillipadsmith So to keep @TaddleCreek iconoclastic as ever, it's time to zig (Gopher space!) while others zag (Responsive design? Snore!).
@phillipadsmith You know, really get off the superhighway and onto the winding dirt roads of the paleo-net.
@phillipadsmith In keeping with its taste for all things olde-timey, I think @TaddleCreek should set up a Usenet Newsgroup or a Delphi BB.
@nerdygirly Do you think this can possibly top MTV's classic "The Paper"? I think not: jimromenesko.com/2013/01/22/com…
@Robsonian So noted. More haunting without, anyway (probably?)
@Robsonian That is a bold choice of cover imagery.
A few years from now we'll regard the phrase "digital first" the way we do "information superhighway" today. guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan…
@MacDonaldMaggie Really, can any of us ever be said to twerk enough?
@MacDonaldMaggie I think the unnerving thing is that I had to look up "solfege" but not "twerk."
@MacDonaldMaggie Exactly!
New-to-me terms I've Googled today: "define solfege", "define fusking". (Spoiler: they're both totally innocuous.)
Interesting (to a select few) that the new Opera mobile browser junks their own decade-old platform for Webkit: pocket-lint.com/news/49375/ope…
@SharonDMcAuley Others have assured me of my cretinous ignorance; I'm going to cling to your more charitable interpretation for now.
@NMTblog My Adam Sandler allergy probably prevented my uptake of this fact.
Sorry, Dear Abby was the identical twin sister of Ann Landers? Am I the only one who didn't know this? nytimes.com/2013/01/18/bus…
There are seven million-dollar math problems. The only guy to solve one refused both the Fields Medal and the money: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenniu…
Only two weeks left to apply to the @CdnBusinessMag year-long paid internship: canadianbusiness.com/business-strat…
@mostlyyalit I didn't make it — just go to Settings in Twitter and look for the "Your Twitter Archive" section. Just a zip file!
@WaxEBuildup It's file that Twitter makes for you. Go to settings and see if there's a button offering your "Archive." Then just download!
Twitter archive achieved! What use is it? None! gfscott.com/archive/tweets/
@anne_theriault Do you also hate EMPLOYMENT
Ready your bindles, sad clowns: 600 layoffs at Cirque du Soleil tomorrow, reports CP: cbc.ca/news/business/…
"Where [the human heads] arrived, what terminal, what airline, what the final destination was, where were they heading — we don't know." Oy.
Spare a thought for the poor broadcast reporters who have to file gossamer-thin newz-LOL like this: huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/hum…
@journo_dale LALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU
You know what I could really go for? Another tut-tutting op-ed on the exquisite complexity of our constitutional monarchy.
Legitimately fascinating, only moderately depressing slideshow on writing headlines for the web: slideshare.net/Upworthy/how-t…
The website for "Monsters University" is a spot-on parody of every university website: monstersuniversity.com/edu/commercial…
Sign o' the times: Oprah's Lance Armstrong interview will be simultaneously on TV and streamed on Oprah.com: qz.com/42013/oprahs-l…
@andreacivichino It's not in the job description, but you might want to negotiate for it.
Hey, would you like to spend your days trying to force me to meet my goddamn deadlines already? For money? mastheadonline.com/jobs/?jobId=50…
So are we talking about how that new Bowie song is just awful?
RT @phillipadsmith: Wow, big news: MT @dangillmor: WordPress putting EditFlow into core product. Congrats to @DanielBachhuber http://t.c ...
"cache" ≠ "cachet"
My course on digital publishing tech starts next Tuesday(!) and registration will close soon: cdjn.ca/207/
Your open letter (ugh) about how the HuffPo isn't insipid enough neither needs, nor deserves, an epigraph by Yeats: pandodaily.com/2013/01/04/dea…
This @awl essay about self and truth is an unintentionally(?) nice response to HamNo's journalism≠narcissism piece: theawl.com/2013/01/the-qu…
@richardwarnica Oh come on, more like 20%, max.
@journo_dale Exactly. We wouldn't want to be using the wrong clichés.
Journalistic metaphor-drift alert: Please change all "Peak ____" references to "____ Cliff" ones.
I read a book about the First World War while dad checks Twitter on his Galaxy S3. #backwards
I collected all the @NiemanLab 2013 predictions into one big chunk, suitable for Instapaper etc: gfscott.com/niemanpredicti…
(Believe me, I worked there for almost four years. Every. Dollar. Counts. For reals. It's a Canadian institution and a continuous miracle.)
So @thismagazine is fundraising to add a 7th special issue—that's14.3% more This in 2013. Every dollar counts: indiegogo.com/thismagazine
Are we supposed to prevent from testifying people with expression-obscuring facial scars? Botox patients? Champion poker-players?
The SCC's belief in the magical truthiness of beholding a witness's face is as mystifying to me as the religious belief they're judging.
@amandabeetee I could see NatGeo being concerned with photo rights. But us lowly civilians? I just can't be arsed.
@ivortossell I've seen your photos, Tossell. Keep snappin'.
@thekeenanwire Exactly! Monetize the cream. Leave all of us bobbing around in the milk alone.