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And therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don’t. No one does. You shouldn’t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren’t real and they were created by other people, not you. There is no explicit path I’m following, and I’m not walking in anyone else’s footsteps. I’m making it up as I go. - Noah Carter

Love it! - Noah Carter from Blip.fm

Kids - you can't beat 'em. - Noah Carter from Blip.fm

"We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk," - Noah Carter

Rock Band - Noah Carter

RockBand 2 - Shey, Jamaican of FF

A few months ago, Zimmer, a science writer, began compiling a collection of scientific tattoos — he’s amassed a terrific set of photographs. Our favorites? A remarkably precise illustration of the uranium atom, impressed upon on a ribcage, and an amino acid etched, sexily, into a woman’s hip. But we’re also fond of the buckyball nets and zebra fish, and of the “Macroscope” that takes up the whole of someone’s back. (Not surprisingly, you’ll also find sketches of the formula for LSD.) To paraphrase Karl Popper, the stereotype’s being falsified, one tat at a time. - Noah Carter

Robert Burton is a neurologist (and novelist) who marshals scientific and psychological arguments and concludes that our strongest convictions can arise just as readily from prelogical processes as from rational thought. Alarmingly, Burton also suggests that our sense of certainty attaches as readily and firmly to false ideas as to true ones — and feels precisely the same whether we’re dead right or totally wrong. - Noah Carter

i see where my good looks come from - mike carter

that's me and Andy Brown stoned to the mizax - Noah Carter

"Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz (right) and colleague Justin Rosenstein were leaving to start their own company. ... Fortunately, Rosenstein (who formerly worked at Google as product manager of Google Page Creator) has posted more information about their reasons for departure in a Facebook note to friends, which we have reproduced with his permission below. In it, he describes briefly how Moskovitz and he plan to build to an “extensible enterprise productivity suite” that uses Facebook Connect as its user authentication system and borrows many of Facebook’s own design conventions. The two of them thought about building this suite from within Facebook but eventually decided that it would make more sense to build it within their own company. The choice quote: “We hope our products will become to your work life what Facebook.com is to your social life." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

@Jon, I totally disagree. Yammer is just the privatization of microblogging for the enterprise sprinkled with a few more features. This sounds like a platform architecture modeled much like Facebook apps but geared specifically for work productivity. I can see apps for project management, document management, HR and yes, even microblogging rolled into this. I also feel they both provided one of the most eloquent exit explanations I've ever read and I found them to be very sincere. I can't wait for this. - Mark Krynsky

“We hope our products will become to your work life what Facebook.com is to your social life.” “There's so much work to be done in the area of making things harder for people at work. We're passionate about hiding and omitting the very things we all need to be more productive. Whether it’s work output or the collective knowledge of an organization, we’ve got to make it become less searchable and less relevant. For enterprise developers, we’ll nurture an ecosystem that makes it easier to create and deploy underwhelming business apps that reveal the tragic lameness of your co-workers. At the same time we plan to remain oblivious to all acceptable standards of user experience.” - Noah Carter from Bookmarklet

"OpenID is an excellent solution for establishing a single identity for all your online accounts, but many people haven’t even tried it yet. For some, the concept of using a URL address for a login ID instead of the traditional email address is still completely foreign. However, Email to ID could be what the doctor ordered and what these creatures of habits need. It could also be what OpenID needs in order to expedite wide-spread acceptance as the single sign on identity standard. You can now link your email address (or several of them) to your OpenID and then use that email address (any of them) to log into any online service that supports it! The beauty rests in the simplicity of it all. Best of all, it’s all free and easy to do." Do this. It's easy and smart and will save you all kinds of time! - Noah Carter

A free tool that helps you recover your lost items - Noah Carter

The point to be lamented is not that Sarah Palin comes from outside Washington, or that she has glimpsed so little of the earth's surface (she didn't have a passport until last year), or that she's never met a foreign head of state. The point is that she comes to us, seeking the second most important job in the world, without any intellectual training relevant to the challenges and responsibilities that await her. - Noah Carter

Thomas Edison created the electric lightbulb and then wrapped an entire industry around it. The lightbulb is most often thought of as his signature invention, but Edison understood that the bulb was little more than a parlor trick without a system of electric power generation and transmission to make it truly useful. So he created that, too. - Noah Carter

Have you seen the photo of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin brandishing a rifle while wearing a U.S. flag bikini? Have you read the e-mail saying Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was sworn into the U.S. Senate with his hand placed on the Koran? Both are fabricated -- and are among the hottest pieces of misinformation in circulation. As the presidential campaign heats up, intense efforts are underway to debunk rumors and misinformation. Nearly all these efforts rest on the assumption that good information is the antidote to misinformation. But a series of new experiments show that misinformation can exercise a ghostly influence on people's minds after it has been debunked -- even among people who recognize it as misinformation. In some cases, correcting misinformation serves to increase the power of bad information. - Noah Carter

Marshall: Thanks so much for the call out. And thanks especially for pointing out that comments were off on my blog -- I had absolutely no idea that was the case! (And that explains why there haven't been any comments lately, doh on my part for not checking). I'm definitely looking forward to conversations, online and off, and invite feedback, critiques, and dialog. - Charlene Li from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Marshall, I think you need to add Umair Haque on here, considering mind-blowing analysis like this piece from 2006: http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2006... And any mention of Umair is remiss without also citing John Hagel (McKinsey/Deloitte). - Ethan Bauley from FriendFeed MT Plugin

"My research focuses on how people negotiate a presentation of self to unknown audiences in mediated contexts. In particular, my dissertation examines how American teenagers socialize in networked publics like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube. I am interested in how the architectural differences between unmediated and mediated publics affect sociality, identity and culture." - Noah Carter from Bookmarklet

Marshall: Excellent post. All seven are indeed thought leaders and worthy of the recognition. I was surprised not to see @ShivSingh's name on the list. More practitioner than blogger, he consistently provides deep thinking on social media - what's working, what's not, and why. I recommend following him, (http://www.goingsocialnow.com). I'm also perpetually inspired by Danah Boyd (http://www.danah.org), who has probably forgotten more about social media than any of us will ever know. - Noah Carter from FriendFeed MT Plugin

The Wellcome Image competition, which limits itself to photographs of subjects that can’t be seen by the naked eye. - Noah Carter from Bookmarklet

really good those KC's - like a modern Squeeze - Noah Carter

I love the lyrics in this one: "We are the angry mob/ We read the papers everyday day/ We like who like/ We hate who we hate/ But we're also easily swayed." - RAPatton

how can anyone in their right mind vote for this ticket?? - Noah Carter from Bookmarklet

"So, what is the take away from all of this? For Microsoft to pick up the proverbial ball and start running with it, it will need to listen to what the consumer wants, and design products that fit those needs, rather than assuming that the consumer will buy whatever it is that Microsoft hands them, just because it is a Microsoft product" - Noah Carter from Bookmarklet

it was a great ride, but I really think it's over for them. - Noah Carter

Best "FF Beta layout flip" post yet ;) - Daniel J. Pritchett

(narrow content) Bret, yes I'm using FF 2. I see it is fixed now. Thanks. - Peter

rock on brutha! - Noah Carter

@roberto - yes, but didn't know when/if it would be used or in what context - MG Siegler

I DIDNT TALK ABOUT THE BUSH DOCTORINE ON TV BECAUSE OF DOCTORINE PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY ITS NOT OK TO TALK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLS BIZ U JERKS!! - Noah Carter from Bookmarklet

kewl - Noah Carter

I'm thinking that "liking" something is similar to "starring" something in Google Reader... it is left up to you how you want to use it. You can star something to refer to later, to mark as something to finish reading later, to email to someone, etc. I'm not sure there's a defined purpose for "liking". - Adam Darowski

Noah, suppose your comment is that you disagree with someone's post? There are plenty of ways that commenting is not the same as liking lol. - Isha (Marysia)

"For decades, Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn was one of New York's great tourist attractions. At the height of its popularity during the 1800s, half a million people visited annually to picnic among its manicured grounds. A letter in Green-Wood's archives from a 19th-century Englishwoman recounts how she would love to visit America one day "to see Niagara Falls and Green-Wood Cemetery". If the meandering paths and genteel lawns of Central Park represent New York's romantic side, then the hulking mausoleums and Gothic stonework of Green-Wood capture Gotham in all its brooding glory" - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Little Known Fact: When I was a junior at Vassar College in 1984, J.M. Basquiat came to give a talk to the studio art department. He didn't say much. He spent the evening getting bombed in the campus pub, where he traded doodles on napkins for grams of cocaine. Good times. - Noah Carter

used to live about 30 seconds from the cemetary. remarkably beautiful grounds. - eric mortensen

"Today's special, picked by an Amazon MP3 fan on Facebook: The Best of Joy Division. Everyday low price: $9.99 Today's price: $3.99" - Michael W. May from Bookmarklet

Another band I thought were ok, but never got the hype. However, I know most others did, so... heh. - Michael W. May from twhirl

Cannes Film Festival Opening Forum: "Cinema: The Audiences of Tomorrow" May 16, 2007 - Noah Carter from Bookmarklet