Sean Blanda |
 A journalist / entrepreneur living in Brooklyn looking for the next big thing.This is a mix of essays and clippings on the business of content, journalism and other stuff. |
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"There’s a certain joy in being really, really bad at something and doing it anyway."
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The new SvN footer on article pages is the right mix of tackling the “dead end” issue without bombarding the user with images. Also, they boldly auto-hide the comments. I think we’ll be seeing more “friction” added to comments on popular blogs.
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Notes Jessica HischeI love the typography and lettering (a new distinction I learned from Hische) on this blog.
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Notes "Our advertising offerings reflect our editorial ideal: to tell stories that are involving and genuine."I love Gawker.
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Notes Growing Branch: Behind the scenes: new feed and compose
Today we shipped improvements to two important parts of Branch, the public feed and the compose form. Both of these went through many iterations, and we thought we’d briefly share our thinking behind them with you.
Public Feed
We designed the former signed-in home page right before…
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The ESPN profile of Messi has a single photo slot that changes depending on where you scroll.
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Marco Arment's new IOS-only pub
Hopefully it has better luck than The Daily.
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Notes Explorable Explanations is my umbrella project for ideas that enable and encourage truly active reading. The goal is to change people's relationship with text. People currently think of text as information to be consumed. I want text to be used as an environment to think in. -
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Sweet subheds at SEED.
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Integrity and bullies with blogs
I wanted to make this brief, because I have more important things to do with my time than respond to bullies who...
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Why I Turned Down My Investment Banking Offer to Launch a Startup
Last semester at 6:00AM, forty hours into studying for my asset accounting final, I...
