Refavorited is a Tumblog (do people still say that?) where my favorites from Etsy, SoundCloud, YouTube, Flickr, Fancy, Twitter and Wikipedia go, automatically, via ifttt. Etsy is not yet an official channel on ifttt (but is so ready), so I’m using my Etsy favorites RSS feed as a trigger. As for Wikipedia, for a long [...]
Posts on Lists
Etsy Book Picks:
07 Dec 2011
A Pinterest pinboard I can’t help but add to a few times a day, though Etsy Board Games is gaining momentum. Alternate filtering in effect for followers here on Etsy. No official API yet, but that hasn’t stopped Kellan.
Onboarding Inspiration
13 Nov 2011
I collect screenshots of details I come across and like, on the desktop or phone, in an “inspiration” folder on Dropbox. But I haven’t found a good way to capture great onboarding flows yet other than blogging about them. Here are two standouts that kind of smacked me in the face. Stripe plops you inside [...]
The Sun Rises in the East
24 Apr 2010
Etsy’s Treasury is something I’ve long been fascinated by. It’s an ever-changing, member-curated shopping gallery with some unique constraints. Treasury lists only live for 48 hours. Each list has a limit of 42 comments. You can only create a list if the total number of lists falls below 333 (shorthand for
Reading List
16 Feb 2010
Books follow me around and accumulate in stacks: by my desks, bed, coffee table, couch. If I could have the current active lot organized into a single stack based on pages viewed, notes taken and ideas generated, it would look like this: 1. A few months ago I started picking up books on architecture, urban [...]
Playing Favorites
04 Aug 2009
There are many strategies people use to make discoveries on Etsy. This is my favorite. Find a shop you like? Check out the shop owner’s favorites. Find an item in their favorites that you like? Check out that shop owner’s favorites. Repeat until you realize three hours have gone by and you have 26 browser [...]
Sketchbook Secrets
15 Apr 2009
Julia Rothman regularly showcases fascinating book objects on Book By Its Cover but the sketchbook category is especially special. Look at what she’s talked people into sharing: Jim Stoten’s madly detailed secret drawings. Andrés Sandoval’s accordion fold-out sticker collages. Reka Kiraly’s thick bold lines. Calef Brown’s characters. Etsy seller Iris Schwarz’s delicate line drawings. The [...]
Datamob Updated, Mr. President
26 Jan 2009
With President Obama firing off memos and executive orders on open government, FOIA obedience and Executive Branch ethics, now feels like a good time to make sure Datamob is up to date. Notable additions: Capitol Words visualizes the most frequently used words in the Congressional Record and does so in more useful ways than those [...]
