Why the preference for digits over letters? It mostly has to do with ease of memorization. To a native English-speaker, remembering a long string of digits might seem harder than memorizing a word. But that’s if you understand the word. For many Chinese, numbers are easier to remember than Latin characters. Sure, Chinese children learn the pinyin system that uses the Roman alphabet to spell out Mandarin words (for example, the word for “Internet,” 网络, […]
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Columns and blog posts, written over the years on a variety of websites.
Here’s me looking like a real speaker for once. (via Top Digital Toy Creator: Why It’s Important To Do Your Homework Before You Build – PSFK)
Here’s me looking like a real speaker for once. (via Top Digital Toy Creator: Why It’s Important To Do Your Homework Before You Build – PSFK)
Pinterest is a Food & Drink site, more than anything else. (via Pinners be Pinnin’: How to Justify Pinterest’s $3.8B Valuation – Ecommerce Blog)
Pinterest is a Food & Drink site, more than anything else. (via Pinners be Pinnin’: How to Justify Pinterest’s $3.8B Valuation – Ecommerce Blog)
thejogging: crabsticks, 2014 Informational chart ❤
thejogging: crabsticks, 2014 Informational chart ❤
15 years and counting
For over 15 years the newspaper industry has been looking for “the right business model” for digital. Think about how many hours have been spent by bright people at New York Times and all the other fancy places. The smartest people in the industry have been thinking about this for over one and a half decade. And yet they have not found anything that works well enough to even be able to keep their colleagues […]
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