Luca Hammer recommended If Yahoo buys Tumblr… from squashed.tumblr.com:

The broader point being, things change quickly on the internet. There’s always a younger, cooler site looming just over the horizon. I’m not sure that acquisition by Yahoo particularly diminishes Tumblr’s longterm prognosis. It means an influx of cash, stability, and technical capability. Heck, probably a functional search feature. And it means that Tumblr doesn’t need to desperately look for ways to monetize.

Luca Hammer recommended Internet Census 2012 from internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org:

In reality, we is me. I chose we as a form for this documentation because its nicer to read, and mentioning myself a thousand times just sounded egotistical.

Luca Hammer recommended Sex und das Internet from freidimensionalblog.wordpress.com:

Sie seufzte. „Ach, das Internet ist so groß und wenn man da einmal anfängt, kommt man nie zu einem Ende.“

Luca Hammer recommended People, machines and the future of work from eskokilpi.blogging.fi:

What used to be seen as irrelevant is going to be the most valuable thing tomorrow.

Luca Hammer recommended Independent Work May Be Inevitable from blogs.hbr.org:

The disruptions that are changing the landscape of American working life have been a minefield for so many. But they are also making a new level of work-life flexibility possible that didn't exist previously. Perhaps you'll choose the course of independent employment. Maybe your hand will be forced. Either way, letting work freedom ring is changing the American dream, hinting at the expanse of a frontier on the other side of the industrial revolution. One where disruption isn't just about financial returns, but the glee of harnessing a new learning curve. Where people not only put food on the […]

Luca Hammer recommended Pixels don’t care from warpspire.com:

There’s plenty of prejudice and intolerance in our world — and in our industry. But never forget that pixels don’t care.

Luca Hammer recommended How One Woman Started Her Own Insurance Company so Freelancers Could Get Health Benefits from slate.com:

She’d find ways to organize and protect freelance workers—in all sorts of fields—in the same way that classic trade unions provide safety nets for corporate employees. This ongoing quest led to Horowitz’s creation of the Freelancers Insurance Company, which now provides health coverage for close to 25,000 New Yorkers and is approaching $100 million in revenues.

Luca Hammer recommended Totally Unnatural from jml.is:

What we do is to care for our herd. We care about them, we care for them, and we care to them. We provide what is needed and create an environment that is vastly superior to the animal’s life in the wild. We protect, serve, and observe. But, no, it’s not “natural”.

Luca Hammer recommended India: Hole-in-the-Wall from greenstar.org:

Then we tried this "hole in the wall" concept, where we put a high-powered Pentium computer with a fast Internet connection into a wall and let [slum] children have access to it with no explanation whatsoever. To be very brief on what happened, the results have been uniform every time we've done this experiment. You get base level computer literacy almost instantly. By computer literacy, I mean what we adults define as computer literacy: The ability to use the mouse, to point, to drag, to drop, to copy, and to browse the Internet.

Luca Hammer recommended How does one learn how to learn? from quora.com:

If you want to learn, you need to get over your fear of failure. You must repeatedly -- every day -- push yourself to failure.

Luca Hammer recommended Column: New virtual, flex workforce stands ready from usatoday.com:

But as Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute says, there's a "much more fluid line between workers and non-workers" than we think. People who are not looking for jobs as we normally think of jobs might work under different conditions.

Luca Hammer recommended The Stock Market from blogmaverick.com:

I know that sounds crazy, but the stock market has gone from a place where investors actually own part of a company and have a say in their management, to a market designed to enrich insiders by allowing them to sell shares they buy cheaply through options.

Luca Hammer recommended Mountain Lion’s New File System from informationarchitects.net:

Folders-in-folders are hard to deal with. Just as physical folders-in-folders are prone to creating a mess, digital folders-in-folders represent a steep mental hurdle for most of us.

Luca Hammer recommended Why Silicon Valley innovation has stalled from pandodaily.com:

Unlike medical research, or for that matter microprocessor engineering, the current internet space is largely driven by people trying to make a fast buck as opposed to people working at the edge of the envelope.

Luca Hammer recommended What I’ve learned in one year of tech writing from pandodaily.com:

That was my 2012. 10-year-old me would be proud. Not because I’m learning how to tell stories, but because I’m finally realizing which stories are worth telling.