I am try­ing some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent this week with book­marks post. Instead of my nor­mal, and some­what painstak­ing (ahem…I mean labor of love), method of copy­ing links, one-by-one, over from Pocket (a great tool) to my blog to cre­ate this post, I am let­ting Spring­pad do the heavy lift­ing. I am a huge fan of Spring­pad, and it has become my default site and app for note-taking, web-clipping, idea col­lab­o­ra­tion with fam­ily and friends, and over­all means to “remem­ber” every­thing. Let me know what you think of this for­mat. Is it more appeal­ing and eas­ier, or do you pre­fer the “old” way of bul­leted arti­cles, and clearly marked sec­tions for arti­cles, videos and the jazz spotlight?

Update:

Well…that didn’t go as planned. Ugh! Unless there is a con­fig­u­ra­tion code some­where that I don’t see, it appears that the dis­play limit for embed­ded Spring­pad fold­ers is five rows or 20 items. Ugh. I’ll keep the folder pub­lic on Spring­pad in case you want to go there and see what the whole folder looks like. (click here) Until I can fig­ure a way to dis­play the entire con­tents of a folder in a sin­gle post on my blog, it’s back to the old format.

Arti­cles

• Turn Your Wan­der­ing Career Path Into a Secret Weapon — Nathaniel Koloc
• The Bit­ter Bat­tle Over Sugar — David Ropiek
• One Thing You Must Stop Doing to Be Happy — Angel
• Greed is Groupon: Can Any­one Save the Com­pany From Itself? — Ben Popper
• Big Breaks for Blowjobs: The Dark Under­belly of the Miss USA Pageant — Katie J.M. Baker
• Can Any­one Turn Stream­ing Music Into a Real Busi­ness? — Tim Carmody
• Stop Using Small Font Sizes — Jacob Taylor
• What Do You Do With the World’s Fastest Inter­net Ser­vice? — Farhad Manjoo
• On Keep­ing a Note­book in the Dig­i­tal Age — Eliz­a­beth Spiers
• Why RSS Still Mat­ters — Dieter Bohn
• Why Google Killed Off Google Reader: It Was Self-Defense — Michael Mahemoff
• Washed Away: Japan’s Atlantis — Stephen Phelan
• Break­down of Cham­pi­ons — Wol­cott, Darrow
• Why Gun Mak­ers Fear the NRA — Paul M. Barrett
• Cell­phones as a Mod­ern Irri­tant — Dou­glas Quenqua
• In Mis­sis­sippi, the Mys­te­ri­ous Mur­der of a Gay, Black Politi­cian — Ben Terris
• Neal Pol­lack on Rebound­ing From Mas­sive Hype and Six-Figure Deals to Online Pub­lish­ing — Nathan Rabin
• The Least Sus­tain­able City: Phoenix as a Har­bin­ger For Our Hot Future — William Debuys
• De Nines: The Long Jour­ney of Blue Jeans — Jenni Avins
• How To Be Fear­lessly Cre­ative — Jus­tine Musk
• The Amer­i­can Con­ser­v­a­tive — Daniel Mccarthy
• Organic Food Fight, Part Two — Kevin Charles Redmon
• How African Fem­i­nism Changed the World — Aili Mari Tripp
• Being White in Philly — Robert Huber
• 20 Ways to Start a Roman­tic Spring — Corey Allan
• 40 Years of Icons: The Evo­lu­tion of the Mod­ern Com­puter Inter­face — Jesse Hicks
• Fight­ing Fal­lon Fox: The Con­tro­ver­sial Sci­ence of Trans­gen­der Ath­letes in Com­bat Sports — Ben Popper
• How to Change Your Life: A User’s Guide — Leo Babauta
• 60 of the World’s Hap­pi­est Facts — Joel
• Thug Men­tal­ity: How Two Dick Jokes Exploded Into DDoS and Death Threats — Rus­sell Brandom
• Fork­ing and Don­gle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Con­fer­ences — Adria Richards
• A Bizs­peak Black­list — Bryan A. Garner
• How Things Fell Apart — Chinua Achebe
• Chinua Achebe and the Mon­grel Canon — Joel Whitney
• Long Night at Today — Joe Hagan
• U.S. Out of Ver­mont! — Christo­pher Ketcham
• The Star­tling Rise of Dis­abil­ity in Amer­ica — Chana Joffe-walt
• Can We Please Stop Draw­ing Trees on Top of Sky­scrap­ers? — Vanessa Quirk
• Let’s Go Back to Group­ing Stu­dents by Abil­ity — Barry Garelick
• The Many Myths About Moth­ers Who ‘Opt Out’ — Nanette Fondas
• The Pre­his­tory of Gay Mar­riage: Watch a 1971 Protest at NYC’s Mar­riage License Bureau — Garance Franke-Ruta
• Defend­ing Fox News Is a Fool’s Errand for Con­ser­v­a­tives — Conor Friedersdorf
• The Touch-Screen Gen­er­a­tion — Hanna Rosin
• Don’t Fear the ‘Franken­fish’: Why Rich Amer­i­cans Should Drop Their War on Genet­i­cally Mod­i­fied Foods — Zachary Karabell
• ‘The Walk­ing Dead’: Death, Undeath, and the End of the ‘Rick­ta­tor­ship’ — Jef­frey Gold­berg, J.J. Gould & Scott Meslow
• What Suc­cess­ful Peo­ple Did In Their 20s — Vivian Giang, Max Nisen
• Income At Home, Herbal­ife, and the $8 Bil­lion Pyra­mid — Matt Stroud
• Zen Free­dom — Tim Lott
• Mitt Romney’s Damn­ing ’47 Per­cent’ Video and the New Pol­i­tics of Pri­vacy — Tim Carmody
• Hashtags Are the Ugly Bumper Stickers of the Internet — Dominic Basulto
• 7 Rea­sons You Strug­gle with Hap­pi­ness — Angel
• Eye for an Eye: The Case for Revenge — Thane Rosenbaum
• Look­ing for Evi­dence That Ther­apy Works — Har­riet Brown
• A Chunky His­tory of Peanut But­ter — Jon Michaud
• The Come­dian Come­di­ans Were Afraid Of — Adrian Nicole Leblanc
• Feminism’s Tip­ping Point: Who Wins from Lean­ing in? — Kate Losse
• Is Giv­ing the Secret to Get­ting Ahead? — Susan Dominus
• How Social Media Improved Writ­ing — Simon Kuper
• The Com­plete Guide to Tak­ing Notes Effec­tively at Work — Anna Codrea-rado
• The Retro Wife — Lisa Miller
• The Gay Mar­riage Debate — Byliner
• The Attach­ment That Still Makes Noise — Phyl­lis Korkki
• How Head­phones Changed the World — Derek Thompson
• How We’re Turn­ing Dig­i­tal Natives Into Eti­quette Sociopaths — Evan Selinger
• Cruel and Unusual Pun­ish­ment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws — Matt Taibbi
• The Bacon-Wrapped Econ­omy — Ellen Cushing
• Vic­tim No More: How to Stop Self-Sabotaging — Eliz­a­beth Grace Saunders
• 10 Things You Think About Too Often — Marc
• Come and Get It: How Sperm Became One of America’s Hottest Exports — Brooke Jarvis
• Rap Sheet — Alec Wilkinson
• Yes, Health­ful Fast Food Is Pos­si­ble. But Edi­ble? — Mark Bittman
• Come­dian and Jokes Return, Tweaked — Jason Zinoman
• Con­dom Design: Bill Gates Con­dom Chal­lenge — Irina Blok
• The Final Word on Penis Size? — Matt Soniak
• Why Face­book Home Both­ers Me: It Destroys Any Notion of Pri­vacy — Om Malik
• 10 of Our Favorite TV Shows Home & Apart­ment Floor Plans — Car­o­line Williamson
• Those Irri­tat­ing Verbs-as-Nouns — Henry Hitchings
• The End and Don King — Jay Caspian Kang
• Why Did 28,000 Rivers in China Sud­denly Dis­ap­pear? — Amar Toor
• I’m Not The Prod­uct, But I Play One On The Inter­net — Derek Powazek
• How to Raise Men — A.J. Jacobs

Videos

http://vimeo.com/63609012

Jazz Spot­light

 
 
 
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