Linkpile

• Twitter Has a Business Model: ‘Promoted Tweets’: “Will put ads on Twitter, first in search results and later in user feeds both on Twitter.com and the myriad third-party clients that access the service.” Starbucks, Virgin America, Bravo to participate. Once again: Information wants to be ad-supported.
• ideal bookshelves: Design*Sponge notes upcoming show of “ideal bookshelves” works by Jane Mount (noted here) at The Curiosity Shoppe.
• On Being Good at Seeming Smart: The “paraphernalia” of smartness: “Poise, confidence (but not defensiveness), giving a moderate amount of detail but not too much, providing some frame and jargon, etc. But also, unfortunately, I suspect: whiteness, maleness, a certain physical bearing, a certain dialect (one American type, one British type), certain patterns of prosody.” Via Mind Hacks.
• Visual aesthetics in early computing: 1950-1980. Via Coudal.
• Supertaskers: I’ve read/heard many times that people who think they’re great multi-taskers (especially young people) usually aren’t. But this study says a small slice of the population (less than three percent) really can do two things at once, effectively. Since it’s Time magazine they have to come up with a hype name: “supertaskers.” That aside, the article is interesting. Via Mind Hacks.
• German Firm Wins Right to Make Beer Called ‘Fucking Hell’: Couple of the pix in the slide show are quite excellent.
• The Vintage Price Stickers Pool: On Flickr. A new standard in obsessive documentation of all things visual and consumption related?? Thanks to Shawn W.
• The iPad Luddites: Nicholas Carr: “Progress may, for a time, intersect with one’s own personal ideology, and during that period one will become a gung-ho technological progressivist. But that’s just coincidence. In the end, progress doesn’t care about ideology. Those who think of themselves as great fans of progress, of technology’s inexorable march forward, will change their tune as soon as progress destroys something they care deeply about.”

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