Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries from August 2008

Links from 8/18/2008 to 8/31/2008

August 31st, 2008 · Comments

Little known fact: Sarah Palin invented the Internet | The Web Services Report - CNET NewsTwitter meme
Mad Men obsessives Twitter away | Technology | The GuardianI love Don Draper
Pattern Tap : Interface Collection for Design InspirationVia Sam Zaiss
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Marketing e-mails that actually help customers

August 31st, 2008 · Comments

If you’ve read this blog for long enough or follow me on Twitter, it should be no surprise that I’ve tried online dating. Many years ago in college, I signed up for Match.com, but my membership expired about three years ago. So imagine my surprise to get an e-mail from them the other day. The [...]

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The Experience of Giving

August 31st, 2008 · Comments

I was just reading through some old e-mails when I happened upon something I wrote on November 4, 2004. I was about to finish grad school and move back to New York. President George W. Bush had just been re-elected. This e-mail is particularly apropos given my recent trip to Israel, the 2008 Presidential race, [...]

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Philly Tweetup 08/27/08

August 31st, 2008 · Comments

If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you probably realize I have a mild (okay, not so mild) obsession with Twitter. If you aren’t already following me, please rectify that now.
Because I enjoy nothing more than a good conversation over a good beer, I’ve organized some “Tweetups” (Twitter meetups) in the past, both at [...]

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Week 1 of independence

August 31st, 2008 · Comments

I just finished my first week of independent consulting with 33.25 billable hours. I’m pretty proud of that. Before I decided to make this leap, I had calculated that I need at minimum 26 hours per week in order to comfortably pay my bills, pay taxes and put some cash away in my IRA. I [...]

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