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NASCAR explodes on Twitter
If you missed the Daytona 500 Monday night, you missed an epic night in social media. After a rain bumped the race to prime-time Monday night, a jet dryer explosion delayed the inaugural race with 40 laps to go. With nothing else to do on the back stretch but wait, Miller Lite driver Brad Keselowski took out his phone and had a nationally televised impromptu tweetup. He gained over 100k followers in 45 minutes. He’s gained approx. 40k more since.
Most people never suspected a NASCAR driver circling a track at 200 mph might have a phone in his pocket. So of course it set off a Twitter storm, immediately giving us direct access to the thoughts of a driver even as commentators were prattling on about the weirdest thing they’d ever seen in racing. It was far more immediate, and intimate, than listening to a driver’s radio.
It was, as far as I can tell, unprecedented in modern racing. Keselowski was funny, charming, informative and interactive. In other words, he was a perfect spokesman for everything that’s great about Twitter.
Read the full article on how NASCAR took over twitter at Wired
How Many Downloads Does an App Need to Reach The Top of The Free Charts on iOS?
App tracking company Distimo has revealed data for top apps on a country-by-country basis for the biggest markets. According to the analytics company, the number that top-ranked apps get per day varies widely in different countries.
- United States – Top 10: 80,000; Top 25: 45,000; Top 50: 25,000
- China — Top 10: 30,000; Top 25: 15,000; Top 50: 10,000
- Canada – Top 10: 9,000; Top 25: 4,000; Top 50: 2,000
- Japan – Top 10: 20,000; Top 25: 9,000; Top 50: 6,000
- South Korea – Top 10: 20,000; Top 25: 9,000; Top 50: 5,000
- United Kingdom – Top 10: 18,000; Top 25: 8,000; Top 50: 5,000
- Germany – Top 10: 12,000; Top 25: 5,000; Top 50: 3,000
- France – Top 10: 10,000; Top 25: 5,000; Top 50: 3,000
- Italy – Top 10: 8,000; Top 25: 4,000; Top 50: 2,000
- Australia – Top 10: 8,000; Top 25: 4,000; Top 50: 2,000
Sketchnotes
Eva-Lotta Lamm goes to user experience and design conferences. She takes notes in the form of sketches and has turned them into a book - also available on Flickr.
A collection of videos of Marshall McLuhan - one of the major media philosophers of the 20th Century - set up in celebration of the 2011 centennial of his birth. You might remember him from his cameo appearance in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. I also remember him from his trippy 1967 book The Medium is the Massage (co-created with Quentin Fiore), and later readings on media and technology.
Ben Crane - On Working Out
If you want ideas, you have to start by breaking existing ideas down into smaller ones. Only then can you see how to build your own…more
How to Write Good Code
From xkcd.com
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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration of fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams random conversation, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery- celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “it’s not where you take from, it’s where you take them to.”
”Jim Jarmusch’s golden rule #5
