Post Overview
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Expression
6 years ago+11 11 0Filing Your Taxes Is an Expensive Time Sink. That’s Not an Accident.
A miserable annual ritual survives because of corporate lobbying and Republicans’ long anti-tax crusade.
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Expression
6 years ago+5 5 0The world is turning against live streaming
In the aftermath of the Christchurch shooting, Australia is leading the charge against raw, unfiltered video
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Analysis
6 years ago+48 48 0 x 1Why there’s so little left of the early internet
It took nearly five years into the internet’s life before anyone made a concerted effort to archive it. Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared.
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Analysis
6 years ago+26 26 0Productivity Isn’t About Time Management. It’s About Attention Management.
“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.
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Expression
6 years ago+13 13 0Inbox is about to die, and Google still hasn't brought its best feature to Gmail
As some of us are painfully aware, Inbox is set to die next Tuesday, April 2nd. Google has been pushing Inbox users back to Gmail since the original...
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Expression
6 years ago+9 9 0Does Your Content Spark Joy? Try These Handcrafted Tips for Quality Content
This week was all about creating thoughtful content that's handcrafted to delight.
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Expression
6 years ago+31 31 0 x 1It’s Okay to Be Purposeless
For now and probably forever.
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Current Event
6 years ago+22 22 0NASA Scraps First All-Female Spacewalk For Want Of A Medium-Size Spacesuit
Two female astronauts were set to become the first women to spacewalk together around the International Space Station this week. But they both wear medium spacesuits, and only one was space-ready.
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Analysis
6 years ago+30 30 0 x 1How YouTube is changing toys
Kids are obsessed with YouTube unboxing videos. The toy industry is taking notice.
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Expression
6 years ago+27 27 0 x 1The Instagram-famous plant that used to be impossible to find
What started as a niche social media trend has spread to big brands like Walmart and Home Depot.
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How-to
6 years ago+13 13 0How to Overcome Failure in Six Powerful Steps
No-one likes failing. But everyone does it sooner or later. So here are six powerful steps you can take to overcome failure, and perhaps even learn from it.
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Expression
6 years ago+23 23 0The Art of Copywriting: How to Write Better Captions that Get Engagement
Effective copywriting is the ability to tell a compelling story in a way that evokes strong emotions within your audience and readers.
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Expression
6 years ago+26 26 0 x 1Why China Silenced a Clickbait Queen in Its Battle for Information Control
Ma Ling was one of China’s most popular bloggers. Then she became a target in President Xi Jinping’s campaign to purge popular voices that the Communist Party finds threatening.
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Expression
6 years ago+35 35 0 x 1These Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
Is this really what we want? To continue chucking up cookie warnings to everyone and somehow expecting them to make an informed decision about the risks they present? 99% of people are going to click through them anyway (note: this is a purely fabric ...
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Review
6 years ago+11 11 0The 20 Best Email List Building Strategies for Beginners
Email list building strategies from today's top bloggers and entrepreneurs. Includes email service providers reviews, and 20+ tips for beginning bloggers.
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Expression
6 years ago+19 19 0Who Are Online, Recruited by Advertisers and 4 Years Old? Kidfluencers
Brands are giving lucrative endorsement deals to young children on YouTube and Instagram, raising questions about whether their young followers should be seeing that kind of marketing. Use incognito if read limit reached.
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Expression
6 years ago+13 13 0When Twitter Threads Fly Away
Hey folks, Twitter users, Facebook users, Tumblr users, Internet users, we’ve got a problem. I wrote a thread yesterday on why I don’t like Twitter thread compilers, and it’s been a bit more popular than I anticipated. I’ll restate some key points o ...
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Analysis
6 years ago+45 45 0 x 1The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
In a damning new report, Casey Newton gives an unprecedented look at the day-to-day lives of Facebook moderators in America. His interviews with twelve current and former employees of Cognizant in Arizona reveal a workplace perpetually teetering on t ...
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Expression
6 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Pinstagram? Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature
Instagram is threatening to attack Pinterest just as it files to go public the same way the Facebook-owned app did to Snapchat. Code buried in Instagram for Android shows the company has prototyped an option to create public “Collections” to which mu ...
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Expression
6 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Mark Zuckerberg Promised A Clear History Tool Almost A Year Ago. Where Is It?
Last May, Facebook promised to create a “Clear History” function it said would give users more control over their data. Nine months later it's nowhere to be found and sources say it's a key example of the company's “reactionary” way of ...