• The force is strong with this one…

    Looking forward to seeing Rogue One on the big screen this winter…

  • An excellent video on WV’s classic ad campaign from the ’60s

    Simple, and to the point…   The advertising that Volkswagen ran in American magazines and newspapers in the 1960s was legendary, perhaps the greatest ad campaign ever.. This is a great little documentary about how the ads came about — pitching “a Nazi car in a Jewish town”.. Source: Those…

  • Mobile web and native are different, but both are important

    Mobile web and native are different, but both are important

    This is an excellent post on why web and native apps equally important In other words. The Web is for audience reach and native apps are for rich experiences. Both are strategic. Both are valuable. So when it comes to mobile, it’s not Web vs. Native. It’s both. Source: LukeW |…

  • Website bloat is a real issue

    Website bloat is a real issue

    Websites have gotten increasingly bloated. So much of this bloat is hidden to the user, and is tied to surveillance technology. This post does a great job of explaining the problem: Let’s preserve the web as the hypertext medium it is, the only thing of its kind in the world,…

  • Satoshi Nakamoto and the invention of a new currency

    Satoshi Nakamoto and the invention of a new currency

    Satoshi Nakamoto drew from the history of cryptocurrencies since David Chaum’s seminal blinding formula in the 1980s.  He postulated that the flaw with existing approaches to cryptocurrencies was that a single powerful attacker could undermine and destroy the system.  In order to to defeat the powerful attacker, Satoshi decentralised the control…

  • Back home

    Back home

    Pictures from a short hike in Mill Creek Park last Sunday. Lanterman’s Mill – Youngstown, Ohio

  • Link: The Math Wizards Who Rule Murky World of Programmatic Buying | Digital – Advertising Age

    Link: The Math Wizards Who Rule Murky World of Programmatic Buying | Digital – Advertising Age

    The future of advertising — one where terms like “automation” and “big data” are more than jargon sprinkled into PowerPoints — may be in the hands of 20-somethings like Mr. Banilevi. Just 23 years old, the Northwestern economics graduate uses eight software programs to buy millions of digital ads each…

  • Link: The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain | Ramez Naam

    Link: The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain | Ramez Naam

    The final frontier of digital technology is integrating into your own brain. DARPA wants to go there. Scientists want to go there. Entrepreneurs want to go there. And increasingly, it looks like it’s possible. You’ve probably read bits and pieces about brain implants and prostheses. Let me give you the big…

  • The Icy Mountains of Pluto | NASA

    Congratulations to NASA on the success of the New Horizons’ Mission! New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body. The mountains likely formed no more…