Wednesday 11 April 2012

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The value of our historical Instagram products

Matt Webb has an interesting post looking at the sale of Instagram to Facebook through the eyes of an aspect of Marx, particularly this quote from this very good article about Marx by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books:

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Links for Wednesday 11 April 2012
Your Choices | YourOnlineChoices UK
Opting out of ads that creepily follow you round the web. Includes advertising services that weren't on the Network Advertising Initiative page I linked to a couple of weeks back. (via @rooreynolds)

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11 Apr 2012 at Twitter

  • 07:59am: I'll need to watch 'Caine's Arcade' again, just to counteract all the grumpy ranting Twitter delivered to me this morning. Twice.
  • 04:55pm: I wrote this, poking at the idea of whether we’ve created Instagram’s value by posting our photos: http://t.co/wm12Iili
  • 05:00pm: @holgate A pleasure. For once something nagging at my brain coincided with a moment of feasibly spare time at the computer.
  • 06:13pm: @rooreynolds Yeah, I eventually went from intrigued to creeped out. Opting out of a bunch of ad networks has helped: http://t.co/ZFZIJGwy
  • 06:58pm: @iamdanw @jonty A similar system was invented in 1927 http://t.co/ZtavjQ46 (plus my photos of the Barbican’s http://t.co/PugBJEon )
  • 07:02pm: @jonty I think the Barbican Estate Office organised it, but I don’t think I’ve heard of them doing so since.
  • 07:03pm: @jonty I think the system is only used by a minority of flats now. Not very eco-friendly and can be smelly.
  • 09:26pm: HTML/CSS/JS for Client 1; to Greenwich for ace Client 2 meeting; to office; fixes for Client 3; blog post; home; 4 Whit Stillman blog posts.

On this day I was reading

Music listened to most that week

  1. The Cure (17)
  2. This Many Boyfriends (12)
  3. Young Knives (11)
  4. Tortoise (6)
  5. Massive Attack (6)
  6. Brian Eno (5)
  7. Blawan (5)
  8. Prince Buster (5)
  9. Laurel Aitken (3)
  10. Radiohead (3)

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