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The Nook Nearly Nails It

I bought a Nook Simple Touch a couple weeks ago, just in time for a vacation reading binge. I can’t improve much on John Abell’s review for Wired, The Nook Nails It, as I agree with everything he says there. This is the best reading machine I’ve come across so far: It’s light, easy to […]

Dylan Tweney Jun 25, 2011 2 min read

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One of the best investments you could possibly make

When you have a bunch of smart people with a broad enough charter, you will always get something good out of it. It’s one of the best investments you could possibly make—but only if you chose to value it in terms of successes. If you chose to evaluate it in terms of how many times […]

Dylan Tweney May 26, 2011

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Beyond the blog.

Gawker founder Nick Denton is one of the most aggressive and successful blog publishers around. He started with a good gut understanding of what works online, and built a federation of blogs that exploit a similar model (low overhead, smart and fast writers, efficient tech and ad sales) to great eff

Dylan Tweney Nov 30, 2010 2 min read

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The importance of “Making”

Frank Bidart: What to make, how to make, what does making mean in our lives? What do we make, why do make, when are we making? How important is making? What is the life of a maker, what is the life of an artist, what’s left when you’re not making anything? From Bidart’s amazing 2006 […]

Dylan Tweney Sep 28, 2010

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A faith of verbs.

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh

Dylan Tweney May 3, 2010

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Ledes for the ages.

From 1925: The pens and tongues of contumely were arrested. Mocking mouths were shut. Even righteous protestation hushed its clamor, as when, having striven manfully in single combat, a high-helmed champion is stricken by Jove’s bolt and the two snarling armies stand at sudden gaze, astonished and b

Dylan Tweney Apr 22, 2010 1 min read

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Will It Blend? iPad Edition

Does it blend? Yes, but first you need to smash the screen and bend the thing in half so it will fit into the blender.

Dylan Tweney Apr 5, 2010

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The iPad Is (Just) Television 2.0

The iPad has touched a nerve in the geek community. Judging by comments on Wired.com and elsewhere, many people are outraged that Apple would try to foist a less-capable, dumbed-down device on an unsuspecting public. Thanks to clever marketing, these people point out, Apple has persuaded us to spend

Dylan Tweney Apr 4, 2010 3 min read

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Database migration.

I spent way too much of last Sunday figuring out how to import over 300 articles from my database of published articles into WordPress, to make it easier to find and manage all that work. Those articles are now visible in the published work category here in my blog. I also switched this site to […]

Dylan Tweney Mar 30, 2010 2 min read

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Minscul Mini

Minscul Mini, originally uploaded by dtweney. Neatly sidestepping any debates about spelling.

Dylan Tweney Mar 26, 2010

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Reading and web standards

This week brought the pleasing news that people are reading more than ever, thanks to the internet. In fact, the amount people read tripled from 1980 to 2008. That’s amazing considering it had previously been undergoing decades of steady decline. Suddenly people stopped watching so much television,

Dylan Tweney Dec 31, 2009 2 min read

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Blind photographers

Brian X. Chen wrote a moving story about how three professional photographers are continuing to pursue their art even though they’re almost totally blind. One of them went blind after he’d become a photographer, but has found a way to continue working using a Nokia N82 and an iPhone 3GS. This piece

Dylan Tweney Jul 17, 2009 1 min read