With Boston’s Ad Club EDGE conference* still fresh in my mind and inspired by Riparian Data’s (shout out to the talented Claire) blog post on what they’re reading, I set out to discover what consumes SoftArtisans.
The questions: 1. What article did you read this morning? 2. What are you listening to right now? The answers: Jim, Systems Administrator Offloaded Data Transfer in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Beta – Dell TechCenter blogs TechEd North America 2012 Keynote Christina, UX Engineer What the Rise of Depeche Mode Teaches You About the Rise of Digital Design – Fast Company We are Beautiful, We are Doomed – Los Campesinos! Dan, VP of Operations WSOP Day 17 Recap: Ohel, Gathy Win Bracelets, Ivey Leads Omaha Hi-Lo Tear It Up – Jerry’s KidsKristen, Sales Rep 9 Health Habits that are a Waste of Time – MSN Wide Awake – Katy Perry Scott, Software Engineer Well, I read some of Free: The Future of a Radical Price– Chris Anderson Free Until They Cut Me Down – Iron & Wine Shane, Development Intern The Fake Yacht Explosion Off the Coast of New Jersey – New York Times Some Nights – Fun. Claire, Marketing & Development Manager Information Cascades: Revisited – The Noisy Channel blog Just a Creep – Dum Dum Girls Alison, Product Manager Never Doubt Thy Debugger – MSDN blog I am the Doctor – Doctor Who Series 5 Sean, Software Engineer Kevin Kelly’s One Minute Vacation – BoingBoing.net Escape Artist – Zoe Keating Nick, Software Engineer Pattern Analysis for the Chords of 1300 Popular Songs – HookTheory.com Voyager – Daft Punk Julian, Development Intern Heavy Rain Creator Brings the Action for Beyond: Two Souls – Arstechnica.com Buffy the Vampire Slayer Soundtrack Ingrid, Technical Services Intern MIT Creates Glucose Fuel Cell to Power Implanted Brain-Computer Interfaces – ExtremeTech.com Son of a Gun – Oh Land Paula, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager The Kill List: Apple Just Declared War on These 15 Products No time for music, too upset – Evernote App was listed (see article above) Christiana, Graphic Designer Crazed Man Will Attempt to Walk Over Niagra Falls on a Tightrope – NBC.com She’s So Mean – Matchbox 20 Elise, Social Media & Content Manager How 10 London Olympic Sponsors are Harnessing Social Media – Ragan’s PR Daily What Makes You Beautiful – One Direction (On repeat. #noshame #iregretnothing) *Context: The EDGE conference’s topic was CONSUMED and speakers, from NASCAR’s Steve Phelps to New York Times Magazine’s Rob Walker, talked about (in the words of @schneidermike, Senior VP of Allen & Gerritson) “how brands and marketers are approaching this collision of media and data to better understand how their audience consumes content and what consumes them.”