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I think this is significant not necessarily for what it is now, but for what it can evolve into and inspire in other services. I'm excited to see what comes of this!

yes, sorry - i spent the better part of a year studying that in depth and got rather used to using the acronym :)

I challenge anyone with a painful but non-life-threatening injury - say, a torn labrum, or a torn ACL - to go live in Canada or the UK and see what their treatment is like compared…

Cheers for a brilliantly composed article! Looking forward to the interrobang - I'd never heard of it until the Oatmeal gave it a shout-out recently. Don't worry about the articles…

That brings up a really powerful point: what users do and say they do are generally not the same. Finding out why there's a discontinuity between the two usually leads to discoveri…

PBL can be very powerful in the right setting, but as you point out, it really boils down to student/professor rapport. In the best case, PBL is a fantastic learning tool, but in t…

because how else would my entire url be just my first name (car.ly)? true, probably a mis-use... but really fun, in a super nerdy kind of way.

I started using one of those productivity tracking applications that monitors your program use, as well as your browsing history. When I forget it's tracking me and it gives me a r…

I, too, am curious how they've come to that conclusion. I would think it makes a difference what the app is asking of you. Asking for a "like" is certainly much less invasive than …

In a bizarre way, MS is continuing to create standards: when you're a developer, you have to have all the IE bug fixes in your back pocket and know which bugs are IE's bugs and whi…

It's bizarre to me that many blogging platforms still treat blogging as a content-production exercise, when in reality it's a blend of content-producing and content-aggregating. I …

That first one is HUGE, and I'm glad it's being called out. Call it the Blackberry effect, but the fact is that emails have a tone just like any spoken sentence. Taking the extra 1…